brassicGamer wrote:

386_junkie wrote:

The second is an MCA card, a pre-XGA... high end PS/2 graphics adapter

Do you have an MCA system or is this a 'for when I get one' purchase?

IBM model 80! 😀

brassicGamer wrote:

The only other thing worth mentioning was an ICL 'introduction to your system' disk which works perfectly.

What a coincidence... I just bought an ICL 386 CPU board, has a cache controller and everything! I like 386 CPU boards. 😁

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231677829867

brassicGamer wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

brassicGamer, nice batch!

Could you upload the 'introduction to your system' disk? It would be fun to look at that fancy presentation.

I thought that might be requested by a few people 😀

Disk image in .IMA format, made using WinImage 9.0, available here and a pic of the disk itself is attached. If anyone has any problems with this from a copyright point of view let me know.

Thank you very much! I went through the whole guide and had a great time. At some point I even felt like I have actually bought the Workstation 😀

RacoonRider wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

brassicGamer, nice batch!

Could you upload the 'introduction to your system' disk? It would be fun to look at that fancy presentation.

I thought that might be requested by a few people 😀

Disk image in .IMA format, made using WinImage 9.0, available here and a pic of the disk itself is attached. If anyone has any problems with this from a copyright point of view let me know.

Thank you very much! I went through the whole guide and had a great time. At some point I even felt like I have actually bought the Workstation 😀

And your dose of irony today: none of this would have been possible without the Internet.

Got this sweet Roland SC-55 that is practically complete in box. I'm guessing it's maybe missing some registration cards. It even has the original Roland composite cables with 1/2" adapters, Roland MIDI cable, and remote.

Finally got around to testing some of the stuff I got last week:

On the left we have a GeCube Radeon 9550 Extreme 128MB with BGA DDR - this baby is detected by Catalyst 5.8 as a Radeon 9600XT and is clocked at 425 for the GPU and 650MHz for the BGA DDR. Scores ~12500 points in 3DMark01 on my socket 754 A64 3000+ (OC to 2333MHz - 233x10) test rig.

Next to it is yet another Leadtek A280LE TD GeForce 4 Ti4200 / 128MB / AGP8x. These babies score over 12000 pts in 3dmark01 on a fast machine. It's clocked at 250 core / 520 vram. This one effortlesly goes up to 300MHz core clock (just like all my other A240 / A280 cards actually).

A set of identical Leadtek PX6600 GT TDH Extreme cards. These bad boys came in their original boxes witch I moved into storage. The cooler on one of them was making a horrible noise no amount of cleaning and greasing would remove, so I replaced it with a similar aftermarket cooler and moved the stock one to storage. Of course I tested them individualy and in SLI. On my nForce 780i reference board with 2GB of DDR2 1066 and a Pentium D 945 they score a crisp 21300 pts in 3dmark01 and ~ 15950 pts in 3dmark 03!!! That's more then a 6800GT and about as much as a 7800GTX! Definitely a better buy than a 6800 back in the day - and the have windows 98 drivers as well.

Now for the more interesting stuff:

Sapphire Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB - this thing is kick-ass. Fastest AGP card to unofficially support windows 98 (modded drivers I have yet to look for). I tested it on a Pentium D945 / i865 LGA775 board and it scores over 15000 points on 3dmark03 under winxp. Only problem is the cooler is EXTREMELY noisy - vacuum cleaner noisy and I can't control it trough software due to the PCI-E to AGP bridge...

Next to the card is a set of Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066MHz CL5-5-5-15 ram. Tested ok on my 780i at 2.1v. I have a total of four modules, but they are different revisions. The ones in the picture are rev 4.1 single sided 2x1GB. The other set is rev 6.4 double sided. Needless to say they don't play nice (the two sets) at 1066MHz, but work well together at 800MHz. I don't need more than 2Gb of ram on win XP anyway so it's fine.

An now my "crown jewel" - the one card I'm most excited about in this lot - a Chaintech AGT61 GeForce 4 Titanium 4600 with 128MB. Besides looking GOREGEOUS, it's clocked at 300 core / 650 mem and scores a whopping 14855 points in 3dmark01 on my socket 754 A64 3000+ @ 2333Mhz / ULi M1689 test rig! That's impressive for a 2002 card.

kanecvr wrote:

Sapphire Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB - this thing is kick-ass. Fastest AGP card to unofficially support windows 98 (modded drivers I have yet to look for). I tested it on a Pentium D945 / i865 LGA775 board and it scores over 15000 points on 3dmark03 under winxp. Only problem is the cooler is EXTREMELY noisy - vacuum cleaner noisy and I can't control it trough software due to the PCI-E to AGP bridge...

Have you tried MSI Afterburner? I have a Sapphire-made Radeon HD3850 AGP card that also uses a bridge chip, but Afterburner has no problem controlling its fan.

kanecvr wrote:

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Love it... 😜

nice SC-55 package beigemore 😁

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Seems pretty much identical to my ASUS one in everything but looks, and it is an epic card... Would match my motherboard better, I should fly over there and steal it. 😁

Nah, just messing with you. But yeah, if it is anything like the ASUS (And it is the same GPU, same clocks and pretty much the same board layout) it will indeed be about as fast as you can go on an AGP 4x system. In fact, it will probably be faster than a 4800 (Non SE version) in an AGP 4x machine. Unfortunately I can't get you a 3DMark score from mine to compare it with because 3DMark breaks my Win98 install for some reason...

Actually, this all reminds me, I should get to fixing my monster PSU so I can use my system properly, so I might just go and do that now.

I have an Asus 4600 as well. Purple with gold heatsinks. Unfortunately it's artefacting like crazy... Weirdly enough, the asus would match my ECS board better as well, since it's also purple 😁

kanecvr wrote:

I have an Asus 4600 as well. Purple with gold heatsinks. Unfortunately it's artefacting like crazy... Weirdly enough, the asus would match my ECS board better as well, since it's also purple 😁

I got one... but is this an asus? Mine is PNY.

And this months haul from the local electronics swap meet

paid about $25 for everything. The two voodoo cards and the Virge/GX2 cost me $3 at one stand. the mac IIci was $3 as well but unfortunately it seems the PSU is dead.

Just the original pass-through cable for a Pure3D would have been worth that. Nice haul.

soviet conscript wrote:

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And this months haul from the local electronics swap meet

paid about $25 for everything. The two voodoo cards and the Virge/GX2 cost me $3 at one stand. the mac IIci was $3 as well but unfortunately it seems the PSU is dead.

You're halfway to recreating my DOS workstation there. Advantech(?) single-board computer, S3 Virge, Diamond Voodoo2... Just add a big PCI/ISA backplane, an AWE64 & a GUS PnP, a SCSI card, an ISA-based EPROM burner... okay, maybe a little less than halfway. 😜

xjas wrote:

You're halfway to recreating my DOS workstation there. Advantech(?) single-board computer, S3 Virge, Diamond Voodoo2... Just add a big PCI/ISA backplane, an AWE64 & a GUS PnP, a SCSI card, an ISA-based EPROM burner... okay, maybe a little less than halfway. 😜

well, one of those cards is a ISA SCSI controller

kanecvr wrote:

I have an Asus 4600 as well. Purple with gold heatsinks. Unfortunately it's artefacting like crazy... Weirdly enough, the asus would match my ECS board better as well, since it's also purple 😁

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kanecvr wrote:

I have an Asus 4600 as well. Purple with gold heatsinks. Unfortunately it's artefacting like crazy... Weirdly enough, the asus would match my ECS board better as well, since it's also purple 😁

I got one... but is this an asus? Mine is PNY.

This is mine;

soviet conscript wrote:

And this months haul from the local electronics swap meet

Is that ISA-SCSI by any chance a SCSI card with Floppy controller too?
I think it looks like a Floppy connector besides the SCSI connector.

It will do so nice in a 386 machine.

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soviet conscript wrote:

And this months haul from the local electronics swap meet

Is that ISA-SCSI by any chance a SCSI card with Floppy controller too?
I think it looks like a Floppy connector besides the SCSI connector.

It will do so nice in a 386 machine.

Yhea, it's a future domain card, usually when I find scsi cards there all adaptec.

Plextor PX716UF from charity shop (they have some odd things).
Been wanting a Plexy for some time, as they are the business for disc testing.

One think a bit dodgy with it, the mains adapter is 12V 600mA - right voltage, fitting & polarity, but I'd expect a writer to need more than 600mA - I'm guessing maybe it got mixed up - trying some other forums (MYCE, was cdfreaks) for info before I risk powering up on that adapter.

If I can find it, I may have a bigger 12V adapter that I use to use with some ham radio stuff.

soviet conscript wrote:

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And this months haul from the local electronics swap meet

paid about $25 for everything. The two voodoo cards and the Virge/GX2 cost me $3 at one stand. the mac IIci was $3 as well but unfortunately it seems the PSU is dead.

What were you going to do with all those SBC's?