I bought these 23 dual core CPUs.

This was not a gold scrap lot, the CPUs were sold as working! "From working computers" to be exact, most computers worked at some point I guess. 😁 I do not see preconceptions and prejudices as good things but when I got the real name of the seller I felt that I had to ask him to "Package the CPUs well so they can not get damaged during shipping". I kind of wonder how they would have been packaged if I did not wite that...

The package with CPUs, awesome packaging skills...

From working computers... This E6400 CPU looks like it has seen its prime to say the least...

I bought the CPUs on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera where every complaint results in getting negative feedback as a buyer so I will bite my lip. Out of the 23 CPUs 3 looked broken beyond repair including the E6400 above, a few others looked okey but had lost components during shipping and I killed one of them for sure by beeing a bit careless when reflowing the lost component back in place. Some others I think I actually managed to fix and with luck the rest of the CPUs that surprisingly enough look more or less undamaged are working.

In the end I got these CPUs that I think will work, at least most of them.

1x E8300
4x E8400,
1x E8500,
1x E7300
1x E6850,
1x E6750
1x E6600
2x E4700 <--- Really useful for upgrading some old computers that only supports 800 MHz FSB and first generation Core 2.
2x E4500
5x E6550

The price was ~26 euro + 7 euro shipping so I paid about 1.7 euro each for the 19 "probably working" CPUs which is totally fine. If sellers could learn the "not beeing a f***ing moron skill" I would be even happier.

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I bought these 23 dual core CPUs.

This was not a gold scrap lot, the CPUs were sold as working! "From working computers" to be exact, most computers worked at some point I guess. 😁 I do not see preconceptions and prejudices as good things but when I got the real name of the seller I felt that I had to ask him to "Package the CPUs well so they can not get damaged during shipping". I kind of wonder how they would have been packaged if I did not wite that...

The package with CPUs, awesome packaging skills...

Packed well... NOOOOOT.jpg

From working computers... This E6400 CPU looks like it has seen its prime to say the least...

Core 2 Duo E6400 SL9T9.jpg

Core 2 Duo E6400 SL9T9 back.jpg

I bought the CPUs on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera where every complaint results in getting negative feedback as a buyer so I will bite my lip. Out of the 23 CPUs 3 looked broken beyond repair including the E6400 above, a few others looked okey but had lost components during shipping and I killed one of them for sure by beeing a bit careless when reflowing the lost component back in place. Some others I think I actually managed to fix and with luck the rest of the CPUs that surprisingly enough look more or less undamaged are working.

In the end I got these CPUs that I think will work, at least most of them.

1x E8300
4x E8400,
1x E8500,
1x E7300
1x E6850,
1x E6750
1x E6600
2x E4700 <--- Really useful for upgrading some old computers that only supports 800 MHz FSB and first generation Core 2.
2x E4500
5x E6550

The price was ~26 euro + 7 euro shipping so I paid about 1.7 euro each for the 19 "probably working" CPUs which is totally fine. If sellers could learn the "not beeing a f***ing moron skill" I would be even happier.

Those E8xxx CPUs are also 3rd and 2nd fastest Core2 Duals available. Perfectly usable today for office and media tasks. I'm actually stuck using an E8400 in my main for various reasons atm and with a few tweaks it has enough horsepower to propel Fallout 4 at 30-45 FPS. So light gaming might also be OK in a last ditch effort sort of way.

Picked up an Epox MVP3C-M with a K6-2 on it for the princely sum of 5$ 😀

No idea if it works yet but it even came with the PS/2 header.

^ very good MVP-3 mobo , nice catch!

Nice catch on the 5 dollar SS7 motherboard and CPU.

Picked these up myself today. Couple other auctions I am waiting on that might be exciting as well if they don't get bid up to high.

Two Socket 3 motherboards 1 PCI and 1 VLB. Both untested but I got it for 40 shipped so even if just one works it's a decent deal.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221981808499

Got this one for 50 plus 14USD shipping. A P4 motherboard with unversal AGP slot. A Geforce 4 Ti4200 and a DXR2 decoder card. Mainly got this for the the motherboard to use with a Voodoo 5 but, the GF4Ti is a nice bonus. The DXR2 card is kinda nice to have as I don't have one currently but not sure what I would use it for. I don't generally bother with DVD playback on older machines.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/272594654162

Thanks 😀 It's from the same place I've been getting most of my stuff lately, they've even taken to putting aside boxes of things they think I might like to look through - this was in the box today, along with a couple laptops that needed too much work for me to bother, some pcmcia ethernet cards I was considering but ended up passing on, and an Audigy 2 I was going to grab until I noticed it was an "SB" model number, so probably a Dell OEM one.

LHN91 wrote:

Picked up an Epox MVP3C-M with a K6-2 on it for the princely sum of 5$ 😀

No idea if it works yet but it even came with the PS/2 header.

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That is one nice board. One of the better ones that I have had through the years.
I had mine running with both K6-II's, P-133 and P-166. Great board.
As far as I remember, it should have SB-Link header somewere on it.

LHN91 wrote:

Picked up an Epox MVP3C-M with a K6-2 on it for the princely sum of 5$ 😀

No idea if it works yet but it even came with the PS/2 header.

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I'm actually looking to buy the same one. Does anyone know if it will work with Voodoo 3/AGP? Also, does it have a standard PS/2 pinout? It's just that a lot of AT SS7 motherboards that I've seen either have a custom pinout or use ATX form cards of some sort.

Not sure yet - it came with a single-port PS/2 bracket connected via a 5-pin connector. Not sure if that's standard or not.

jheronimus wrote:

LHN91 wrote:

Picked up an Epox MVP3C-M with a K6-2 on it for the princely sum of 5$ 😀

No idea if it works yet but it even came with the PS/2 header.

unnamed.jpg

I'm actually looking to buy the same one. Does anyone know if it will work with Voodoo 3/AGP? Also, does it have a standard PS/2 pinout? It's just that a lot of AT SS7 motherboards that I've seen either have a custom pinout or use ATX form cards of some sort.

it works with the voodoo 3 2000 at the very least, depending on the AGP slot it might also support the 3000 check the manual for the bus speed on the agp slot.

Bought a NIB 2 port usb 2.0 pci card at Goodwill from Iogear. Opened it up and peeled the brand sticker of the chipset, expecting a crappy Via card that would not play nice with older systems. Instead found an ALI chipset! I know this has good 98 drivers included, but if I could get it to work with 95 that would make it a great candidate for one of my Socket 7 AT machines.

I would recommend NOT using USB 2.0 in windows 9x. I've never heard any success stories. Hell, even usb 1.1 is going to be flaky with win95.

As long as you use 98se USB seems usable, vanilla 98 and 95 are a big pain however. What I ran into before was compatibility between the USB chipset and the motherboard chipset. Via chipset usb cards seem much more flakey than say an NEC one on older systems.

luckybob wrote:

I would recommend NOT using USB 2.0 in windows 9x. I've never heard any success stories. Hell, even usb 1.1 is going to be flaky with win95.

Used vanilla WIn98SE with USB 2.0 on multiple computers with zero issues what so ever. The only possible problem is getting the correct drivers. If you can get those then it should just work right off. Although I do also add the "Unofficial Win98SE Service Pack 3" to add mass storage support to Win98se's USB functionality so I can use modern newer flash drives.. and the same sp3 pack adds ntfs support to Win98se. Once adding in those two I can pop in my ntfs 32GB and 64GB flash drives into my win98 systems and it reads them straight off with no issues, full hotplug support too.

Never had much issue getting USB to work in 95 either

Just received this, which ended up costing me way more than expected because it was a lot larger and heavier than expected (and got intercepted by customs):

It's a NEC Packard Bell machine with a Pentium 166 MHz on board, 32 Mb RAM, working CD-ROM (a pretty neat one too) and floppy drive, LAN card, on-board sound, no hard disk though...(wonder if I could revive the 1Gb SCSI drive I've kept in storage for 20 years...). I'll start a thread in the system specs forum.

It unfortunately suffered some damage during transport:

Yesterday I recieved them two computers, the K6 and the 486. I took the K6-II apart, cleaned the AT-Case (wich are scuffed up, and need a repaint) and took some pictures of what was inside the machine. It was smelling of cooking oil and perfume, so I guess the previous owner lived in a small apartment or something like that. The motherboard has a K6-II-350 and some unknown amount of ram.

Anyway... Pictures...

I took a couple of quick pictures of the Unisys machine too. It is a 486sx25, upgraded to a 486dx33.
It has S3-805 onboard VGA card, and some unidentified SCSI 50-Pin Harddrive.
I did not take that close a look at this machine though, as I have no time for hardware testing, untill
thursday or friday next week. So yeah... Will have to wait one week, for massive testing.
The machine has some scuff marks, nothing really bad, and that is to be expected for a 24 year old PC.

Rhuwyn wrote:

Two Socket 3 motherboards 1 PCI and 1 VLB. Both untested but I got it for 40 shipped so even if just one works it's a decent deal.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221981808499

Did you end up getting those Socket 3 boards? If so, the PCI+VLB board (the one on the right in the first picture) seems to be the (in)famous PCChips M919, and it has the custom COAST-like cache module! 😲

Even if the boards are not working, that cache module is very rare, and probably very expensive.

Found this baby hiding in the CPU section of ebay. Cheaper than the one I was watching and in near mint condition. Popped the service tag into dell support and checked the original build. Supposedly it shipped with a P4 EE 3.4/800. It's a bit off from what the seller described, but I really don't see a reason why anybody would downgrade a CPU.