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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 31860 of 54413, by buckeye

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Just bought this NIB Intel board luckily on the cheap. Never messed with anything socket 370 so looking forward to
building an upper tier win98 rig. The specs. will probably end up as follows:

Tualatin 1.4ghz. (unless I don't feel like messing with the bios then I'll drop down to a lesser cpu)
256mb ddr
Quadro4 900xgl or Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra
SB Live! 5.1 sb0100
40gb IDE
350w PSU
Case-undetermined, will have to get one. Like the older Coolermasters still on sale on Newegg.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Asus V7700 GF2 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 31861 of 54413, by MKT_Gundam

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Great info guys!
The G450 is only 1VGA and has some tv tuner/image capture thing.

Retro rig 1: Asus CUV4X, VIA c3 800, Voodoo Banshee (Diamond fusion) and SB32 ct3670.
Retro rig 2: Intel DX2 66, SB16 Ct1740 and Cirrus Logic VLB.

Reply 31862 of 54413, by nhattu1986

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I received the 3 motherboard from yahoo japan yesterday, and all three have blown cap 😁

the MSI 875p master FA is a 875p chipset yet it does not support prescott cpu, kind of weird since the mainboard is geared toward the workstation folk.

Reply 31863 of 54413, by dionb

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MKT_Gundam wrote on 2020-01-08, 14:25:

Great info guys!
The G450 is only 1VGA and has some tv tuner/image capture thing.

Then you don't have the Millennium G450 but the Marvel G450 eTV.

In this age of digital television that tuner is pretty useless, but it can do some nice MPEG2 capture from analog video sources 😀

Reply 31864 of 54413, by Predator99

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Predator99 wrote on 2019-12-25, 08:40:
Scrap lot for less than 20€ (sellers pictures): - 5,25" floppy - 3.5" MFM MD - 1x Seagate MFM HD: Critical point is usually the […]
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Scrap lot for less than 20€ (sellers pictures):
- 5,25" floppy
- 3.5" MFM MD
- 1x Seagate MFM HD: Critical point is usually the fragile flat cable at the front, unfortunately not visible on the photo
- 386 MB, for parts only...
All not looking good, but I hope some parts are working/repairable

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...arrived to today in a big box without any cushioning...

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3 Old Hard drives, 2 MFM 1 IDE. The ST-225 is spinning up and was the main reason to buy this, good sign.

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2 5.25" Floppies:

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All very dirty but I am quite happy for the price...

Reply 31865 of 54413, by Predator99

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...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this:
- Voodoo 3 AGP
- SS7 AGP Mainboard
- 2 XEON CPU
- some kind of SBC?
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Reply 31866 of 54413, by bjwil1991

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Lucky dog. I get good prices for some hardware, but nothing fancy. Hope I win the 486 computer I'm bidding on so that I can fix it (recapped an OG Xbox 1.6b motherboard before, a video card and re-traced a sound card using wires and solder, so it shouldn't be too hard).

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Reply 31867 of 54413, by cyclone3d

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-01-08, 20:17:
...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this: - Voodoo 3 AGP - SS7 AGP Mainboard - 2 XEON CPU - some kind of […]
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...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this:
- Voodoo 3 AGP
- SS7 AGP Mainboard
- 2 XEON CPU
- some kind of SBC?
....
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The SBC is made by IEI. By the looks of the cooler, my bet is the CPU is not upgradeable but not super sure what it would be... with SDRAM support, it is probably some sort of Pentium class. Looks like it has a lot of bulging capacitors as well.

The one ISA sound card is Yamaha YMF-71x based. Very nice.

Edit:
Quick google search shows that the SBC is:
IEI Rocky-C800EVR

See here for some general info:
https://www.attro.com/sbc/ROCKY-C800EV.htm

And here is the manual:

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Yamaha XG repository
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Reply 31868 of 54413, by Predator99

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Hi, many thanks for finding this out! However I dont think I have much use for this as I dont own a suitable backplane.

The Souncard seems to be the Yamaha Audician 32 Plus, also very nice.

Reply 31869 of 54413, by luckybob

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Hello slot 2 xeons! I see you!

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 31870 of 54413, by liqmat

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-01-08, 21:39:

The Souncard seems to be the Yamaha Audician 32 Plus, also very nice.

Just sold a system with that audio card in it and a Dreamblaster S1 attached. The pair make for a very compatible DOS gaming experience.

Reply 31871 of 54413, by imi

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-01-08, 21:39:

Hi, many thanks for finding this out! However I dont think I have much use for this as I dont own a suitable backplane.

I do :3c
meanwhile all my sbcs for them are damaged because it was one of those "let me rip all those colers off with sheer force"-type scrappers

Reply 31872 of 54413, by Bige4u

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ELSA ERAZOR X2 GEFORCE256 DDR 32mb

Pentium3 1400s/ Asus Tusl2-c / Kingston 512mb pc133 cl2 / WD 20gb 7200rpm / GeForce3 Ti-500 64mb / Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0100 / 16x dvdrom / 3.5 Floppy / Enermax 420w / Win98se

Reply 31873 of 54413, by MrSmiley381

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Brand new Make-It 486 has arrived today! After three or four missed opportunities to grab one of these I'm lucky to have scored this one at all. I'm excited to see what sorts of shenanigans I can undertake now.

I spend my days fighting with clunky software so I can afford to spend my evenings fighting with clunky hardware.

Reply 31874 of 54413, by appiah4

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Finally managed to get me an ATI Rage 128 Pro PCI 32MB! But the card came and I see only two SDR chips on it; I guess I got a 64-bit version? 🙁

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Do these count as retro yet? Because my launch 360 just RROD'ed after 13 years of service (Press F) and had to be replaced:

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Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.

Reply 31875 of 54413, by H3nrik V!

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-01-08, 20:17:
...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this: - Voodoo 3 AGP - SS7 AGP Mainboard - 2 XEON CPU - some kind of […]
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...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this:
- Voodoo 3 AGP
- SS7 AGP Mainboard
- 2 XEON CPU
- some kind of SBC?
....
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Well, I see 3 Slot 2 XEONs in that image 😀

Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 31876 of 54413, by H3nrik V!

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MrSmiley381 wrote on 2020-01-09, 03:30:

Brand new Make-It 486 has arrived today! After three or four missed opportunities to grab one of these I'm lucky to have scored this one at all. I'm excited to see what sorts of shenanigans I can undertake now.

Wow! And still in foil wrap? Almost a pity opening that?

Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 31877 of 54413, by Miphee

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Another lucky find for $8, my sealed Windows collection is nearing completion. 😀

Reply 31878 of 54413, by xjas

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MrSmiley381 wrote on 2020-01-09, 03:30:

Brand new Make-It 486 has arrived today! After three or four missed opportunities to grab one of these I'm lucky to have scored this one at all. I'm excited to see what sorts of shenanigans I can undertake now.

Nice upgrade, but does it run Crysis Quake? (With the optional FPU of course.)
See if you can "beat" Elianda's 386DX/40 result in slowness.

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Reply 31879 of 54413, by spiroyster

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-01-09, 07:59:
Predator99 wrote on 2020-01-08, 20:17:
...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this: - Voodoo 3 AGP - SS7 AGP Mainboard - 2 XEON CPU - some kind of […]
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...quite surprised my price proposal was just accepted for this:
- Voodoo 3 AGP
- SS7 AGP Mainboard
- 2 XEON CPU
- some kind of SBC?
....
s-l1600 (1).jpg

Well, I see 3 Slot 2 XEONs in that image 😀

I only see 2 Slot2 Xeons, and a single Slot1 (non-Xeon).