Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-02-14, 10:06:

These last weeks I bought all kinds of adapters and readers just because I'm always frustrated when I don't have the right thing, and now is a time when they are cheap and still available. That is CF > IDE, SATA > IDE, USB-A to USB-C, USB Floppy, USB CF/SD reader, Molex to SATA power etc etc...I remember 20 years ago when some adapters were everywhere and now very hard to find. So I will not make the same error twice.

What a great idea!

"How much would I be willing to spend to get a serial to ps/2 mouse adapter, if I had to order one online" is a question I was recently confronted with, because... these days if you don't have one, you just don't have one. (The answer was it was cheaper for the money to just get a serial mouse)

Picked up this 'mystery box' last night for next to nothing. The ad didn't have any specs, just a few not great photos, but I could see a graphics card in there with VGA and DVI, PCI slots, and what I thought looked like a P4 cooler. So I took a punt.

It's turned out to be an AGP FX5200 card, 768MB of DDR, an Athlon XP2500, and an ABit NF7 board. I'd call that a win!

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-02-15, 08:46:

Picked up this 'mystery box' last night for next to nothing. The ad didn't have any specs, just a few not great photos, but I could see a graphics card in there with VGA and DVI, PCI slots, and what I thought looked like a P4 cooler. So I took a punt.

It's turned out to be an AGP FX5200 card, 768MB of DDR, an Athlon XP2500, and an ABit NF7 board. I'd call that a win!

The engineers have a lot of imagination when it comes to place the atx connectors at impractical places

But nice nforce board ! And i quite like the case

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-01-09, 08:08:

Thanks for the info! I noticed a thread here from a while back where someone was trying to locate drivers for this card too. Seems to be pretty tough to track those down.

It's me on this topic . I managed to get wavetable works but I can't reproduce it. It seem the wavetable part share the same adsress of MPU-401. But it's very driver dependent. Plus, you can't use MIDI port and/or wavetable connector + wavetable chipset at the same time.

If a specific driver has resurfaced since my last message, I'd be happy to test it.

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-02-15, 08:46:

Picked up this 'mystery box' last night for next to nothing. The ad didn't have any specs, just a few not great photos, but I could see a graphics card in there with VGA and DVI, PCI slots, and what I thought looked like a P4 cooler. So I took a punt.

It's turned out to be an AGP FX5200 card, 768MB of DDR, an Athlon XP2500, and an ABit NF7 board. I'd call that a win!

Nice find. Abit NF7-M is the nForce2 IGP version. Geforce4 MX IGPU with DDR400 cl2 dual-channel may actually be faster than the FX5200 64bit in some win98 titles 😁

acl wrote on 2024-02-15, 08:57:

And i quite like the case

You can have it if you want, just pop over to the UK! But really it's pretty beaten up, the top panel has scratches and light rust, front panel is scratched up with bits missing... I'd have no guilt scrapping this one.

timsdf wrote on 2024-02-15, 11:27:

Nice find. Abit NF7-M is the nForce2 IGP version. Geforce4 MX IGPU with DDR400 cl2 dual-channel may actually be faster than the FX5200 64bit in some win98 titles 😁

Sounds like I need to do some benchmarking 😀

I was planning on moving these parts on but I might replace one of my less interesting P4 builds with this instead.

Scored a Radeon 9800SE AIW 128MB... awaiting its delivery tomorrow 😀

Shadzilla wrote on 2024-02-15, 11:47:

acl wrote on 2024-02-15, 08:57:

And i quite like the case

You can have it if you want, just pop over to the UK! But really it's pretty beaten up, the top panel has scratches and light rust, front panel is scratched up with bits missing... I'd have no guilt scrapping this one.

Thanks but i try to limit myself to 4 or 5 systems in cases because of the room they take.
Most of my other systems are kept unassembled and used on a test bench when needed.

acl wrote on 2024-02-15, 18:36:

Most of my other systems are kept unassembled and used on a test bench when needed.

Same here 🤣, I tend to shuffle thru a lot of boards and somehow ended up with lots of cases. (recent score being a HUEG fulltower Chieftec case that had the most boring HW inside.)

Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a surprisingly clean AT keyboard and clean serial mouse for my 486 box.

Keyboard and mouse both look to have never been used and show no signs of yellowing, pretty sure this is one of them models that Honeywell spat out in the hundreds but with how clean it is its a nice find.

Always good to have DDR500 on hand! Managed to snag 4 of these kits too.

Ear marked for my I7 990X machine, have some spare ice pack tray for them too.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:41:

Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a su […]
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Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a surprisingly clean AT keyboard and clean serial mouse for my 486 box.

Nice looking Serial mouse and DIN Keyboard.jpg
Key Base.jpgClean Mouse.jpg

Keyboard and mouse both look to have never been used and show no signs of yellowing, pretty sure this is one of them models that Honeywell spat out in the hundreds but with how clean it is its a nice find.

DDR500.jpg
Always good to have DDR500 on hand! Managed to snag 4 of these kits too.
1000 HTZ.jpg
Ear marked for my I7 990X machine, have some spare ice pack tray for them too.

Nice bits of stuff. We’re they eBay items?

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:45:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:41:

Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a su […]
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Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a surprisingly clean AT keyboard and clean serial mouse for my 486 box.

Nice looking Serial mouse and DIN Keyboard.jpg
Key Base.jpgClean Mouse.jpg

Keyboard and mouse both look to have never been used and show no signs of yellowing, pretty sure this is one of them models that Honeywell spat out in the hundreds but with how clean it is its a nice find.

DDR500.jpg
Always good to have DDR500 on hand! Managed to snag 4 of these kits too.
1000 HTZ.jpg
Ear marked for my I7 990X machine, have some spare ice pack tray for them too.

Nice bits of stuff. We’re they eBay items?

Yeah, there really isnt another source of parts out where I live, Rural Australia isn't known for its flea markets 🤣. I did get a good deal on the DDR500 since I was buying all the kits the seller had. Keyboard and mouse was 40 AUD and the two Raptors were 30 each. (Both drives only have 25 hours on them so barely used)

We did used to have a big flea market here once a month but Covid killed it and it never really recovered.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:48:

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:45:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:41:

Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a su […]
Show full quote

Bought a few odds and ends for a build im tooling up for, bought 4 512Mb kits of Corsair DDR500, 2 1Tb WD Velociraptors and a surprisingly clean AT keyboard and clean serial mouse for my 486 box.

Nice looking Serial mouse and DIN Keyboard.jpg
Key Base.jpgClean Mouse.jpg

Keyboard and mouse both look to have never been used and show no signs of yellowing, pretty sure this is one of them models that Honeywell spat out in the hundreds but with how clean it is its a nice find.

DDR500.jpg
Always good to have DDR500 on hand! Managed to snag 4 of these kits too.
1000 HTZ.jpg
Ear marked for my I7 990X machine, have some spare ice pack tray for them too.

Nice bits of stuff. We’re they eBay items?

Yeah, there really isnt another source of parts out where I live, Rural Australia isn't known for its flea markets 🤣. I did get a good deal on the DDR500 since I was buying all the kits the seller had. Keyboard and mouse was 40 AUD and the two Raptors were 30 each. (Both drives only have 25 hours on them so barely used)

We did used to have a big flea market here once a month but Covid killed it and it never really recovered.

Yeah live Rural as well. eBay is my only option. I have about 150 eBay searches saved 🤣. That keyboard didn’t come up in my notifications. Do you use a 3rd party eBay app?

I was very lucky last week and managed to find an MT-32 on a local FB market place, near new condition with original manual and ROM v1.07

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:00:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:48:

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:45:

Nice bits of stuff. We’re they eBay items?

Yeah, there really isnt another source of parts out where I live, Rural Australia isn't known for its flea markets 🤣. I did get a good deal on the DDR500 since I was buying all the kits the seller had. Keyboard and mouse was 40 AUD and the two Raptors were 30 each. (Both drives only have 25 hours on them so barely used)

We did used to have a big flea market here once a month but Covid killed it and it never really recovered.

Yeah live Rural as well. eBay is my only option. I have about 150 eBay searches saved 🤣. That keyboard didn’t come up in my notifications. Do you use a 3rd party eBay app?

I was very lucky last week and managed to find an MT-32 on a local FB market place, near new condition with original manual and ROM v1.07

It came up in my "Vintage Computer" search, I filter by Australia Only and Newly Listed, it had only just gone up and I just jumped at it because of how clean it looked and I needed a nice AT keyboard for the 486.

I too have a lot of saved searches, I find switching between the US and AU ebay with my searches helps a lot. I also search on UK eBay and DE eBay them European types have a lot of cool bits especially Poland and Ukraine. Bought quite a few parts from Ukraine, they appreciate the support too.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:03:

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:00:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 09:48:

Yeah, there really isnt another source of parts out where I live, Rural Australia isn't known for its flea markets 🤣. I did get a good deal on the DDR500 since I was buying all the kits the seller had. Keyboard and mouse was 40 AUD and the two Raptors were 30 each. (Both drives only have 25 hours on them so barely used)

We did used to have a big flea market here once a month but Covid killed it and it never really recovered.

Yeah live Rural as well. eBay is my only option. I have about 150 eBay searches saved 🤣. That keyboard didn’t come up in my notifications. Do you use a 3rd party eBay app?

I was very lucky last week and managed to find an MT-32 on a local FB market place, near new condition with original manual and ROM v1.07

It came up in my "Vintage Computer" search, I filter by Australia Only and Newly Listed, it had only just gone up and I just jumped at it because of how clean it looked and I needed a nice AT keyboard for the 486.

I too have a lot of saved searches, I find switching between the US and AU ebay with my searches helps a lot. I also search on UK eBay and DE eBay them European types have a lot of cool bits especially Poland and Ukraine. Bought quite a few parts from Ukraine, they appreciate the support too.

That’s a good idea!

What computer are you planning on building?

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:07:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:03:

zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:00:

Yeah live Rural as well. eBay is my only option. I have about 150 eBay searches saved 🤣. That keyboard didn’t come up in my notifications. Do you use a 3rd party eBay app?

I was very lucky last week and managed to find an MT-32 on a local FB market place, near new condition with original manual and ROM v1.07

It came up in my "Vintage Computer" search, I filter by Australia Only and Newly Listed, it had only just gone up and I just jumped at it because of how clean it looked and I needed a nice AT keyboard for the 486.

I too have a lot of saved searches, I find switching between the US and AU ebay with my searches helps a lot. I also search on UK eBay and DE eBay them European types have a lot of cool bits especially Poland and Ukraine. Bought quite a few parts from Ukraine, they appreciate the support too.

That’s a good idea!

What computer are you planning on building?

Its going to be a 939 Opteron 180 based build which is the same CPU as the Athlon 64 X2 4600+, Got a nice Gigabyte K8NXP-9 Ultra board for it and now I have some fast ram for it too.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-K8NXP-9-rev-10#ov (Got this NIB with all the kit, it did need to be recapped but its a lovely board so worth the extra work)

Still on the look out for a Opteron 154 or a Opteron 185 both of which are the FX-57 and FX-60 equivalents. (The Opteron 156 would also be nice but its a very rare beast and at 3Ghz would be the fastest stock CPU for 939)

I/O controller with manual

It was misplaced in some 'VGA Mentor' box with 5.25 inch floppy disks and also the manual of that VGA card. Unfortunately without that particular ET4000 card. 😉

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:24:

Its going to be a 939 Opteron 180 based build which is the same CPU as the Athlon 64 X2 4600+, Got a nice Gigabyte K8NXP-9 Ultra board for it and now I have some fast ram for it too.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-K8NXP-9-rev-10#ov (Got this NIB with all the kit, it did need to be recapped but its a lovely board so worth the extra work)

Still on the look out for a Opteron 154 or a Opteron 185 both of which are the FX-57 and FX-60 equivalents. (The Opteron 156 would also be nice but its a very rare beast and at 3Ghz would be the fastest stock CPU for 939)

Just sent you a PM

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:24:

Its going to be a 939 Opteron 180 based build which is the same CPU as the Athlon 64 X2 4600+, Got a nice Gigabyte K8NXP-9 Ultra […]
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zuldan wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:07:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-02-16, 10:03:

It came up in my "Vintage Computer" search, I filter by Australia Only and Newly Listed, it had only just gone up and I just jumped at it because of how clean it looked and I needed a nice AT keyboard for the 486.

I too have a lot of saved searches, I find switching between the US and AU ebay with my searches helps a lot. I also search on UK eBay and DE eBay them European types have a lot of cool bits especially Poland and Ukraine. Bought quite a few parts from Ukraine, they appreciate the support too.

That’s a good idea!

What computer are you planning on building?

Its going to be a 939 Opteron 180 based build which is the same CPU as the Athlon 64 X2 4600+, Got a nice Gigabyte K8NXP-9 Ultra board for it and now I have some fast ram for it too.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-K8NXP-9-rev-10#ov (Got this NIB with all the kit, it did need to be recapped but its a lovely board so worth the extra work)

Still on the look out for a Opteron 154 or a Opteron 185 both of which are the FX-57 and FX-60 equivalents. (The Opteron 156 would also be nice but its a very rare beast and at 3Ghz would be the fastest stock CPU for 939)

I was lucky to find a 154 for (relatively) cheap when my 180 died mysteriousely.
For my top 2005 system, i think a fast single core is better than a slightly slower dual. That would probably not be true for a 2006 system.

Bought these the other day for my windows 98 system. Know the ssd is not considered retro but the application is and never had a
ati branded card before so thought I'd give it a shot and see if it'll surpass the voodoo 3 it's replacing. Still kinda "sketchy" on what
drivers to use for win98 and if it'll need directx 8 or not.