Thanks Gamecollector, I just found this site with a nice explanation: http://www.10stripe.com/featured/form/atx.php. I quote it here, the site has a drawing also. The confusing bit is that the term 'mini-atx' has been used for different motherboard sizes. Anyway, since I like anything slightly weird, I'm happy I got this motherboard 😀

Introduced as part of the original ATX standard, Mini-ATX is slightly smaller but otherwise quite similar. Mini-ATX was never ve […]
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Introduced as part of the original ATX standard, Mini-ATX is slightly smaller but otherwise quite similar. Mini-ATX was never very popular (so unpopular, in fact, that many people have forgotten it ever existed), and was deprecated in ATX 2.1.

The great trick of Mini-ATX was that 4 motherboards could be cut from a single PCB "blank", versus only two for ATX. The blanks are 24 inches by 18 inches; Mini-ATX was just slightly smaller than 11 inches by 9 inches (to provide some margin of error).

Mini-ATX trimmed off space at the "top" of the board (the end traditionally near the power supply) and on the edge farthest from the integrated I/O ports (the edge traditionally closest to the front of the case). As a result, it could still have a full complement of expansion slots.

Up through ATX 2.01, Intel described an industry transition to Mini-ATX as "inevitable". However, Mini-ATX required 5 mounting holes that ATX did not, and not all cases had these extra holes. This incompatibility, minor though it really was, proved to be a deal-breaker. The subsequent introduction of microATX effectively took over Mini-ATX's niche.

Bought three working IBM Model Ms for 70 dollars locally. One is missing a key, the other a frayed cord but the third is perfect.

All are the Ps/2 cord variant.

One is a 1987 model, a 1993 and a Lexmark model from 1996.

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Your eBay searching must be really talented to find 2 estate sale motherboards with little to no description listed under Switches. They look like SS7 boards, possibly the left one is a GA-5AX?

Was at my local Fry's Electronics today looking for some audio cables and stumbled upon this in the computer cables isle. Snatched em all up.

New-Old-Stock SCSI Ultra-320 cables. Sadly no built in terminators, but still. I have some scsi equipment still around I could use these for.

dexvx wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Your eBay searching must be really talented to find 2 estate sale motherboards with little to no description listed under Switches. They look like SS7 boards, possibly the left one is a GA-5AX?

Thanks!, one of the things I do is seach the entire computers catagory and sort by what is closest to me. That way I can sometimes find local pickups. I will also sort by lowest price sometimes just to see what comes up. Sometimes I find low cost auctions that are discribed badly because no one has bid on them.

As far as the boards are concerned I think the boxes are from Gigabyte Socket A motherboards. These are SS7. The right motherboard you can see the model number is M5ALA which google tells me is a Biostar motherboard. The left motherboard I can't find any identifying markings and it's clearly a different motherboard but it looks like it has the same ALI chipset.

kithylin wrote:

Was at my local Fry's Electronics today looking for some audio cables and stumbled upon this in the computer cables isle. Snatched em all up.

New-Old-Stock SCSI Ultra-320 cables. Sadly no built in terminators, but still. I have some scsi equipment still around I could use these for.

3.19 USD? What a rip off!!!

Honestly, it is bothering me a bit the total isnt $3.20

YOU HAD ONE F-ING JOB!

Tyan S1753 ATX Socket 7 board to free my currently only AT case for another build.. The P166MMX build has now moved into an Elan Vital T10 and will become a Win98/OS2Warp4 dual boot.

UMC 8498F U5SX 486-33 Motherboard for the now available AT case for an MS-DOS6.22/OS2Warp3 dual boot.

Jackpot!

Bought some VLB hardware today:
- ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - working with 1024kb cache and AMD DX2-80 installed;
- ADAPTEC AVA-2825 VLB IDE SCSI controller;
- HERCULES VL Stingray video card;
- AZTECH NX II soundcard

Paid 50 USD equiv in total.

I bought an "E6700 2.66 RUBBER SHEET"

I managed to purchase 3 older IBM Thinkpads: Two of the machines are 760EL pentium units, one with a DSTN screen and one with a TFT screen both with CD Drives, while the other unit is a 365X with a CD Drive (but unfortunately another DSTN screen). They also came with external floppy and Ultrabay floppy drives to swap with the CD Drive on the 760's. The memory is maxed out on all of these units and the batteries surprisingly work as well.

I plan to use the 760 DSTN unit for spare parts for the TFT Unit (which works fine) as well a 755CD I managed to find awhile back. I want to replace the screen on the 365X but I due to the lack of availability I have a feeling I'll be waiting a while. In the meantime I plan to use the 365X Keyboard for another machine that needs one.

. I actually have a 760es on hand with a toasted motherboard 😒 125mhz Pentium, 32mb of ram and a Zip100 drive. If you were local id offer it to ya for free pickup 😊

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Damn, most of the time, MS-5169 are to be sold at very high price on ebay.
Fingers crossed for you 😀

Glitter wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

Just picked up a pair of ATX socket 7 motherboards with unknown K6 CPUs and some RAM. It's about 30 miles from me and arranged local pickup and offered him 35 USD and he went for it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182493453074?

Damn, most of the time, MS-5169 are to be sold at very high price on ebay.
Fingers crossed for you 😀

Yep, recognised it too as a msi ms-5169. I have one laying here at home can you PLEASE tell me which part it is next to the ramslots, bolted to the big black heatsink?
I got this board from a recycler and that part is broken off (because of the alu....). I would really like to fix it but i don't know the part number...

Thanx!

got in another 2 pieces today

the Asus version of Radeon 9800 XT

a new cooler for my soon to be hot CPU

the Thermaltake Volcano 12 including original fan and back control panel and front control panel.
after hearing the fan (it sure puts out enough noise, which is an understatement at max RPM), I removed it and ordered a Arctic F12 120mm fan with higher CFM.

Also got in 2 cheap noctuas because they were cheap and still nearly new.
1 is for replacing the hiper 120mm fan, which I might add was a **** to recap and now hate hiper for reversing the fan connectors on the internal fan connector. fortunally I still had spare cable which I adapted to the reversed connectors....

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got in another 2 pieces today http://oi64.tinypic.com/118m8ex.jpg the Asus version of Radeon 9800 XT […]
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got in another 2 pieces today

the Asus version of Radeon 9800 XT

a new cooler for my soon to be hot CPU

the Thermaltake Volcano 12 including original fan and back control panel and front control panel.
after hearing the fan (it sure puts out enough noise, which is an understatement at max RPM), I removed it and ordered a Arctic F12 120mm fan with higher CFM.

Also got in 2 cheap noctuas because they were cheap and still nearly new.
1 is for replacing the hiper 120mm fan, which I might add was a **** to recap and now hate hiper for reversing the fan connectors on the internal fan connector. fortunally I still had spare cable which I adapted to the reversed connectors....

I like the Asus version of that card. I saw it listed today and was in doubt as i have several Ati cards and i never really use them... Good buy, that card doesn't come along often.

Haven't had any spare cash to buy things lately but I manage to fit in a small little purchase for a total of 9 USD.

Trident (HIS?) Blade3D 9880 Turbo 4MB AGP 2x

Interesting little card. I actually didn't know that a turbo version existed. It appears to be clocked roughly 20mhz higher than the normal 9880. The normal version was competitive against the Matrox G200. I halfway suspect this may in fact be 8MB as the seller mentioned 4MB was a guess based on the memory chip configuration and 4MB would have been a bit low for the 9880, much less a turbo version.

I like the Asus version of that card. I saw it listed today and was in doubt as i have several Ati cards and i never really use them... Good buy, that card doesn't come along often.

The 9000 series and 3d prophet are nostalgic to me so that's why I bought this one, the same card is currently being sold on ebay aswell in the US (current bid being $9,80).
This project is the cheapest one I made until now but hell it's the most frustating one to get running properly (recapping a psu, non functioning gpu, ram dimm broken, heatsink modifications) grew up with athlons which is the worse part.

Found a Quickshot Sound Machine (OEM version of Sound Blaster 2.0 - CT1350A) for $15 on eBay.

Edit: Actually not sure of which revision of Sound Blaster 2.0 it is.

The card I bought has the CT1366 chip (works with the CMS GAL upgrade), and I am finding pictures of both the CT1350A and the CT1350B with a CT1366A chip on it.