Miphee wrote on 2021-07-02, 10:11:

And yet another random job lot.

Hey, you've got some Pentium Ds in there, for make benefit glorious forums of Vogons.

What are you doing with all these anyway, got enough to tile the bathroom yet?

appiah4 wrote on 2021-07-02, 10:12:

HanJammer wrote on 2021-07-02, 10:03:

2/2

The rest, I have. But this makes me jealous as fuck..

I would prefer the SCSI version, but I'm not complaining 😉

HanJammer wrote on 2021-07-02, 10:02:

Those 3 machines with some goodies inside...

1/2

Nice finds! Not sure why, but the 8Mhz speed on the LED display and the 3DBench score of 76.9 look a bit odd to me 🤣

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-07-02, 12:13:

What are you doing with all these anyway, got enough to tile the bathroom yet?

Well, this is the price I have to pay to finally complete my 775 collection and job lots are much cheaper than individual CPUs.
Good idea though, I'll tell the wife about it!

I've never owned S370 before but they're still cheap so why not. They're a bit boring though.

MMaximus wrote on 2021-07-02, 13:02:

HanJammer wrote on 2021-07-02, 10:02:

Those 3 machines with some goodies inside...

1/2

Nice finds! Not sure why, but the 8Mhz speed on the LED display and the 3DBench score of 76.9 look a bit odd to me 🤣

No idea, why 8Mhz - perhaps because motherboard doesn't support Turbo Switch and Turbo LED so it doesn't switch to higher mhz display (it's Pentium 75, originally it was 386). I guess the 3DBench score is OK for Pentium 75 as it's too fast for this benchmark (and I didn't had 3dbench2 on the boot floppy I used).

I don't know what to tell y'all, must be my week or something, Sally Ann haul...

To the left, 3 items bought individually, a floppy with built in card readers, nice for a "bridge" system. Under that, 2 way VGA switchbox works 2:1 or 1:2, then a 8GB stick of DDR4, ain't got DDR4 systems yet, but this'll do for a tester at least if I get any random boards. Then everything over to the right was in a "surprise box" it was a PSU box, taped up, I peeked through a crack, saw the card brackets and ram sticks floating round and thought "Alrighty then, I'll bite". So what all happened to be in there were two RIMM continuity modules, & two 512MB sticks of PC2 (meh). Then your old blue meanie wrt54G v5, 2 8MB EDO 72p, 2 4MB EDO 72p, yet another AIW (I dunno if I should start an AIW collection now) which is a PCI pro turbo variant, and yet another Rage 128, this one with AGP and TV out also. Oh, almost forgetting the forgettable 1.5Ghz Willamette, SL5TJ... maybe I'll use it to bench PIIIs and Athlons against for the lulz...

A001 wrote on 2021-07-02, 17:35:

I've never owned S370 before but they're still cheap so why not. They're a bit boring though.

CUSL2 was meant to be a nice board for those I think. Wish I had one anyway.

Edit: Looks like you got a GF3 also, those seem to help out sub Ghz systems quite well, though of course they also get faster with more CPU under them.

I bought a couple of chips today.....

- Two 6526 CIA chip's.
- One 6569R5 VIC-II chip.
- One MOS 8500 CPU.
- One AT28c256 eeprom chip.

Asus V3400TNT (Riva TNT) in the SDRAM version, but also yet another CD drive from the 96/97 era, this time 8x Samsung SCR-830. Both still not tested, so I can only hope they’re not just junk.

So the thing was..... I wanted to check back at Value Village since I realized I have 6 cards that need that goofy ATI breakout cable and I've only got two of them, and I looked at the cables before I picked up that previous 128AIW, so didn't specifically check for an ATI breakout cable... so I went back... no cable 🙁 ... but... these three things just kinda jumped in my hand and wanted to follow me home...

Radeon 9250 128MB AGP, MSI MS-8835, think it's an MX 400 Pro 32.... and a not too exciting hdd, that was there last time, but I since realised that I didn't have much between about 6 and 30GB to give systems era appropes hdds, so grabbed that 40 it to fill in. Seems odd that an MX400 don't have a sink though, but there's a few pics of them nekkid like that.

Well, I managed to find myself yet another vintage Macintosh, this time one of the First-Gen PPC based machines that has that nice guitar boot chime.

Here's a shot of that nice old processor, after the literally 26 year old thermal paste was removed.

And nicely, it came with 90 MB of total ram. I need to figure out what exactly is making it be so specific a number.

The V2 is nice. It’s a Provideo Voodoo II.

Be careful with the PVGA1A: it might not be a secondary output. I remember reading somewhere that plugging in a monitor in the second port causes magic smoke to escape from the card 😉. Better be safe before plugging stuff in!

Thandor wrote on 2021-07-03, 07:33:

The V2 is nice. It’s a Provideo Voodoo II.

Be careful with the PVGA1A: it might not be a secondary output. I remember reading somewhere that plugging in a monitor in the second port causes magic smoke to escape from the card 😉. Better be safe before plugging stuff in!

Thank you for the advice. I will do more research. I will do some testing for the other cards as well.

Found it on ebay

Nice duo 😀

kixs wrote on 2021-07-03, 12:43:

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Nice duo 😀

Very nice! Nowhere near as common as they were 10 years ago 😀

Supercool, Nexgen boards, for some reason I had in my head that there was a single model of Nexgen motherboard, and they came with the CPU soldered, because what else were you gonna put in them?

Thandor wrote on 2021-07-03, 07:33:

The V2 is nice. It’s a Provideo Voodoo II.

Be careful with the PVGA1A: it might not be a secondary output. I remember reading somewhere that plugging in a monitor in the second port causes magic smoke to escape from the card 😉. Better be safe before plugging stuff in!

Happened to me. Think that card survived, but it was a lot of smoke. You might try it, but be sure to recording it for next generations 😀