5 BigFoot hhds turned up today.

More old but not really retro stuff.

Boxed 8800 GTX

I did also get a box with CPUs in the mail today...

Nice graphics card!

Skyscraper wrote:

I did also get a box with CPUs in the mail today...

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Awww.. that was awfully nice of the seller to send you the cpu's with the surface mount components detached, makes assembly so much more fun! 😵

philscomputerlab wrote:

Nice graphics card!

You can say that again. 😀

What's that card clocked at?

kithylin wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

I did also get a box with CPUs in the mail today...

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Awww.. that was awfully nice of the seller to send you the cpu's with the surface mount components detached, makes assembly so much more fun! 😵

That was exactly what I thought.

obobskivich wrote:

philscomputerlab wrote:

Nice graphics card!

You can say that again. 😀

What's that card clocked at?

It is clocked at stock 576 MHz core, 900 MHz mem but I benched the card at 612 MHz core 999 MHz mem aswell and it ran fine. I did not try any higher frequencis as I only wanted to match the speed of another 8800 GTX I have in another system.

How on earth did those CPUs sustain that damage?

Lukeno94 wrote:

How on earth did those CPUs sustain that damage?

33 CPUs put in a box togeather with only a little paper around them (and not separating them)
The CPUs were free to do some tag team wrestleing, at least 11 CPUs diddnt made it.

Skyscraper wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

How on earth did those CPUs sustain that damage?

33 CPUs put in a box togeather with only a little paper around them (and not separating them)
The CPUs were free to do some tag team wrestleing, at least 11 CPUs diddnt made it.

Well, they can't all be called Owen Hart. #toosoon?

Got a bunch of cards "as is" so to speak , its quite a nice selection of cards, not shown here is a 2nd PowerVR PCX1 card that came with this lotm but is currently in one of my systems

cards of particular value to me are the 2 PCX1 cards , the QDI Rendition Verite 2200 , the Rage Pro PCI and the Matrox Millenium II , which has an 8MB expansion module (total of 12MB on the card)

Some cards have issues though

Matrox Mystique has graphical corruption at 16bit colour, and mainly in high resolution , not a huge issue as I have a Mystique 220 anyway

the Trio64 wont display anything, again no big issue as its not exactly a rare or useful card for me

the ATI Rage Pro card's extra RAM module was not going to stay in place due to the tabs holding it being missing for whatever reason , the cable tie holding it in is a solution until I find a better one . card words fine though , and may be used as the 2D card in a different system (the image quality isnt quite as nice as the Matrox cards, but a huge improvement over the S3 cards, and 8MB is plenty for this card.

what I believe to be the voltage regulator on the Voodoo2 has snapped off , maybe during shipment, and my soldering skills suck , so its either a loss or I get someone with more skill to do it. nice thing is that it came with an SLI cable.

oddly the previous owner decided to attach heatsinks to the card, which is interesting, one of the PCX1 cards also has such a heatsink , though it works just fine as does everything else it seems.

Got some stuff from a guy at work today. Quite a nice bunch of things for free!

Sound cards:
Sound Blaster 2.0 CT1350B
Sound Blaster 16 CT2980
Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4500

Network cards:
Compaq NNB101 Quad 10/100 (!!!) PCI-X
SMC 1211TX 10/100 PCI
Unknown Compaq Dual 10/100 PCI

Other:
Adaptec AHA-1542CF ISA SCSI controller
Cirrus Logic GD5428 ISA video card
And a big bag of RAM-- all sorts, looks to be mostly SDRAM and DDR1. Haven't totally dug through this bag yet, but I already found a 512MB PC133 stick so I think things bode well.

Everything's really clean, almost like it was never used. I think I have the makings of a new system coming up, what with the SB2.0 joining my collection...

Just picked up a Viewonic optiquest v773 for the amazing price of FREE!!!

Dammit! The place where I got the 286 last week had a -50% day. I should've waited as I'm sure no one would've bought it. 🙁 Anyway, I got a Matrox AGP-card and a P166 MMX for 8e which wasn't too bad.

Looked through the "goodies" at a local junk shop. They are still trying to sell a cheapo socket 478 board I first saw there in September for $20. Among other junk there was an Elitgroup S775 motherboard with "AGP EXPRESS" written on it in huge capital letters! Seems like a dirty marketing move 😀 And no, it had no PCI-E slots, only a single AGP 8x.

RacoonRider wrote:

Looked through the "goodies" at a local junk shop. They are still trying to sell a cheapo socket 478 board I first saw there in September for $20. Among other junk there was an Elitgroup S775 motherboard with "AGP EXPRESS" written on it in huge capital letters! Seems like a dirty marketing move 😀 And no, it had no PCI-E slots, only a single AGP 8x.

Supposedly the ECS agp express was supposed to be faster than standard 8x AGP because it used the pcie bus or some other such marketing non-sense. I have a dead AGP/PCIE ECS board that uses the same AGP EXPRESS slot. If it works and is cheap I would pick it up and give it a shot.

This last couple of days have been all about what I did not buy.

I did not buy the nice socket 7 board with network and sound card included that just sold for ~1 Euro + ~4.5 Euro shipping.
I did not buy the Asus X48 P5E Deluxe board complete with all accessories that sold for ~32 Euro + ~4.5 Euro shipping.
I did not buy the Asus Striker Extreme that just sold for ~27 Euro + ~9 Euro shipping.

This week nice high end components are selling for really low prices in Sweden but you cant buy everything...

Car boot sale this morning provided a ton of old PC bits for peanuts. First thing i found was a box of assorted drives and other bits for £2, 3 PATA CD writers, 1 36x Samsung CD-rom, 3 PATA IDE HD's, 40gb,10gb & 3.5gb, brand new floppy drive, SiS 6326 4mb PCI VGA card, big bag of RAM, assorted 72 pin and pc100 plus a UMC COAST cache module.

Next find on another stall was a pair of video cards, another SiS 6326 PCI, this one 8Mb(amazing, you don't see these things for years and then 2 in one day!) & Geforce FX5200 128mb AGP, 50pence each for those.

Then on yet another stall also for 50p a Pine Crystal Media 4235 ISA soundcard.

bit further along the field yielded a ASUS P4S533-VM/SA-UBY motherboard with a unknown CPU and heatsink/fan for £2, it sure is SiS day!
This board seems of interest as is is socket 478 but has what seems to be a universal AGP slot, anyone know if this will run 3.3v AGP cards safely?

Final two bits were a lovely Hewlett Packard 19" LCD monitor, looks like new for £6 and a the bit I got solidly ripped off on, a Pair of Logitech X-140 speakers, apparently new in box, sadly they were 120volt, someone had fitted a UK mains plug and obviously tried them @ our 240volts, and they are no more!
But all in all a good days hunting!

ODwilly wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

Looked through the "goodies" at a local junk shop. They are still trying to sell a cheapo socket 478 board I first saw there in September for $20. Among other junk there was an Elitgroup S775 motherboard with "AGP EXPRESS" written on it in huge capital letters! Seems like a dirty marketing move 😀 And no, it had no PCI-E slots, only a single AGP 8x.

Supposedly the ECS agp express was supposed to be faster than standard 8x AGP because it used the pcie bus or some other such marketing non-sense. I have a dead AGP/PCIE ECS board that uses the same AGP EXPRESS slot. If it works and is cheap I would pick it up and give it a shot.

Well, according to wiki, AGP Express is AGP via PCI for chip sets that have no native AGP support. Interface performance should be close to what AGP Voodoo cards had. Must be horribly slow 😀 There are boards with both AGP Express and PCI-E, this one lacks PCI-E though 😀

This months haul from electronicsfest

There was so much more I wanted but I hardly had any cash for it this months. snagged these for $5

a G200+, S3 Virge, Voodoo 3, 2 Matrox cards that I think are milliniums...or millinium II's I don't really know. I think the maxi gamer Phoenix is a Voodoo Banshee card

soviet conscript wrote:

a G200+, S3 Virge, Voodoo 3, 2 Matrox cards that I think are milliniums...or millinium II's I don't really know. I think the maxi gamer Phoenix is a Voodoo Banshee card

IS-STORM is Millenium (on later cards the chip was labeled 2064W). The other one is Millenium II (2164W).
Maxi Gamer Phoenis is indeed Banshee.
I'm still surprised that Virge cards are so uncommon in Russia. This ExperColor one seems to be a plain Virge 325 so I'd not try using it for S3D, especially not with only 2MB. Should be nice for DOS/2D, though.