Actually I don't have any specific plans for it right now.

hard1k wrote:

Actually I don't have any specific plans for it right now.

Now doesn't this sound awfully familiar to me? 🤣

martin939 wrote:

By the way, here are some pics of my latest build in a TT case, the Tsunami is about 2-3 years younger than the Xaser (2003). It […]
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By the way, here are some pics of my latest build in a TT case, the Tsunami is about 2-3 years younger than the Xaser (2003).
It's kinda funny that those cases were considered "high end" back in the day, the Xasers were around $200 new.
http://i.imgur.com/5uQwnPT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nUAvjRF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/laW5aZz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/07b6onc.jpg

They are quite big so I rather post them as links 😉

Wasn't there a few versions of the Xaser? I recall there being s latter version that was nicer and had one if those motherboard trays the pulled oit and everything.

Pabloz wrote:

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not today but some months ago

will keep this till i die, when heavy gaming started for me with athlon xp. I can´t understand why some people say it is ugly

thermaltake Xaser III ...pure aluminum

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What I do like about this case, is that it's a silvery case.
The silvery cases I used in my builds, were all very flimsy compared to the beige cases of roughly the same era (like the AOpen H600 cases), quite susceptible to noise caused by resonance which added extra challenge to keeping the system at least reasonably silent.

And this case is large, which I also like.
But in the end I can't really make up if I like that case or find it ugly (though sometimes ugly can be a beauty in itself (yes I know this may sound weird 🤣)).

No pics as of now but some cool stuff from a flea market.

-Generic GeForce MX4000 AGP
-Creative CT6870 (TNT2 Ultra)
-Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 73GB SCSI HDD
-Maxtor 10 and 6.4 GB IDE HDDs
-IDE hard drive caddy with 3 extra racks

Was $22 in total. 😀

Tetrium wrote:

What I do like about this case, is that it's a silvery case.
The silvery cases I used in my builds, were all very flimsy compared to the beige cases of roughly the same era (like the AOpen H600 cases), quite susceptible to noise caused by resonance which added extra challenge to keeping the system at least reasonably silent.

And this case is large, which I also like.
But in the end I can't really make up if I like that case or find it ugly (though sometimes ugly can be a beauty in itself (yes I know this may sound weird 🤣)).[/quote]

Wasn't that because most of the cases were made out of aluminium and sometimes even the full case? 😲
just threw away a TT shark which was beyond repair (the front panel was made out of 1 block of alluminium and was connected with 6 of those cheap plastic clips, suffice to say the front panel couldn't be placed back after i took apart once, and the rest of the case was pathetic in terms of structual integrity..... 🤣

Ok finally moving through my hardware test list.

Bought an untested Asus P4P800 Deluxe for cheap. Even has that Googlegear label (for those that don't know they were quite a popular online computer shop. Later renamed to ZipZoomFly because Google sued. Alas they went under)! Took a gamble due to how well it looked and the fact it is retail boxed with all accessories. Also came with 2x 1GB Buffalo PC3200 CL3 memory.

hard1k wrote:

today by pure coincidence I acquired a nice job lot that included a seemingly oh-so-rare PCI-V3800/32M(TV) based on the Riva TNT2! Will be just great for a new project with the P2B-D2 motherboard (no AGP unfortunately) and the VR-100 upgrade kit 😀

Thats awesome!

I thought the only TNT2 for the PCI bus was the budget orientated TNT2-M64, I'll have to keep an eye out.

I bought these rare ram modules recently

Some stuff I found on open-air market in Krakow

- P55C-K6-S2 interposer with AMD K6-2/450AFX.
- 486 DX4 75, some mobile variant
- 4 SIPP modules (do 286).
- several 30pin simm modules
- 3 industrial CF-IDE adapters
- 8 32mb CF cards
- 3.5 bay amplifier/equalizer

8USD in total.

Sweet haul!

Tell us more about that DX4, also what is that 3.5 inch bay thingy, an old school equalizer?

tikoellner wrote:

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Some stuff I found on open-air market in Krakow

- P55C-K6-S2 interposer with AMD K6-2/450AFX.
- 486 DX4 75, some mobile variant
- 4 SIPP modules (do 286).
- several 30pin simm modules
- 3 industrial CF-IDE adapters
- 8 32mb CF cards
- 3.5 bay amplifier/equalizer

8USD in total.

That equalizer looks like something you'd see in older car sound systems (80's era). Does it actually fit and line up in a 3.5" bay?

The DX4... actually it came from the smashed IBM Thinkpad 345c. The computer I found on the market was totally damaged so I just took some parts out - the 16mb memory card, TFT (to use with my other Thinkpads) and this little CPU card.

The equalizer fits in the 3.5 bay. Just as 1.44 drive. Actually, it's internals are what define shabby 80s electronics (I opened it for cleaning). Guess I'm not going to use it, but I kinda like the LEDs 😀

tikoellner wrote:

The DX4... actually it came from the smashed IBM Thinkpad 345c. The computer I found on the market was totally damaged so I just took some parts out - the 16mb memory card, TFT (to use with my other Thinkpads) and this little CPU card.

The equalizer fits in the 3.5 bay. Just as 1.44 drive. Actually, it's internals are what define shabby 80s electronics (I opened it for cleaning). Guess I'm not going to use it, but I kinda like the LEDs 😀

The DX4 looks really cool. I've scrapped quite a few broken laptops and gotten some desktop CPUs (not sure if that DX4 works in a standard socket 3 motherboard or not) e.g. a K6-2 333, Pentium 133 (S-Spec lists it as mobile, but it works fine in a standard motherboard) and P4 3.0ghz.

Bought on a flea market yesterday:

Intel dx58so (not vintage at all, probably dead)
Unidentified (pcchips??) 386 motherboard + dx 40 CPU (some minor damage, probably a easy repair)
Sound blaster audigy 2 nx USB
Quickshot isa sound card Qs805 (oem media vision jazz 16 ???)

Mut wrote:

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Bought on a flea market yesterday:

Intel dx58so (not vintage at all, probably dead)
Unidentified (pcchips??) 386 motherboard + dx 40 CPU (some minor damage, probably a easy repair)
Sound blaster audigy 2 nx USB
Quickshot isa sound card Qs805 (oem media vision jazz 16 ???)

Nice, and it looks like you have sockets to try different 386/387 chips if you want.

Purchased an Adaptec AMM1570 Soundmachine ... full SCSI on a soundcard. Bought it as it has a wavetable ROM on it, that I'm hoping to test with a very similar Cardinal MPC700A soundcard. Only scanned the box so far, card to come later.

Also found an ET4000 PCI in amongst some forgotten parts ... will have to test it out.

Both of these were scanned on an ancient Microtek X6EL via an Adaptec USB2SCSI into a Gateway Celeron 1GHz, which has been my scanning workstation of late! Probably get better results just taking phone pics though 😢

that video card makes my brain hurt.

Also, a quality camera phone on a tripod should make a very decent photo machine.

Mut wrote:

Quickshot isa sound card Qs805 (oem media vision jazz 16 ???)

Tell me more about this please. Quickshot sound card? I know they made some speakers for Crative bundles but, sound card?