Saved this oddity from it's demise. It was from a computer at works that was being thrown out.

It's an Athlon XP 1700 but with a different socket. CPU and socket are from the same size of a intel pentium 4 sk478:

(it's the one in the middle, the others are only for size reference)

(cpu upclose)

(motherboard and it's incredibly loud cooler that runs it's fan at 5000+ rpm)

Don't really know much about this AMD socket, maybe its some form of a mobile cpu socket...but on a desktop motherboard?
Need to do some research.

Maybe this socket...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_563

Yeah already did my research 😜

Seems that this board could be somewhat rare for what it is.

I knew about those mobile Pentium 3 desktop boards, but never about this one. And it has the P4 connector as well, seems like you got keeper 😀

Think you can do something about the loud CPU fan? If the CPU could stay cool enough with the CPU fan running slower and if the board refuses to POST with the fan attached to a 7v adapter (and thus not connected to the motherboard), you could fool the motherboard into thinking the CPU fan is attached by attaching a slower moving case fan to the motherboard's CPU connector instead 😜

The socket is called Socket 563, is was only used in some Athlon XP-Ms (mainly low voltage models), your Athlon XP-M model is AXMS1700GXS3C: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Mobile%2 … S1700GXS3C.html

acording to CPU world, the CPU is rated at 25 watt TDP, 1.25 volts and based on the Thoroughbred core, about the mobherboard, it seems to be made by PCChips acording to the model number and uses the SiS 741GX chipset which is kinda odd since is a desktop chipset with an ultra low power Athlon XP-M. Does it work? and what are it's BIOS settings and overclocking features? i know Socket A Athlon XP-Ms are multiplier unlocked, but idk about the Socket 563 ones

You can report about this Athlon XP-M find on the AMD K7 thread if you want

The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

You could look into mounting a Zalman cnps series cooler using the existing mounts if they are not too far apart or too close to each other, nice find and such finds are rare.

Picking up a box of random video cards and parts this week. Should be a fun surprise!

Since I don't work there anymore they can't fire me. I worked at staples and was able to rescue a few things while I was there, but the amount of stuff that I couldn't got to me and was one of the reasons I left. Examples: Complete B&W G3 tower and CRT system, Dell Dimension 4200 + P990 w/ a couple socket 7 optiplexes, complete performa system, and all sorts of other equipment. I would recommend any member of this forum who wants to keep their sanity to just never work there or hope you're lucky enough to get a manager who doesn't care. Also I got lucky and got a few thing free on CL from a graphics studio that was closing, but I think the really good stuff was gone.

Things that made it home safely:
Dell XPS M2010 (Replaced GPU)
iBook G4 1.33 (No issues)
iBook G3 900 (Toast, BGA GPU failure)
Technics SL-7 Turntable (Missing cartridge)
A couple original pentiums
Asus H87M-Plus (still don't have a CPU or 24 pin PS for this)
GeForge 6800 GT OC
HP Mini 2140 (Coolest little hackintosh ever, Macbook micro?)
Macbook pro 13" 2.66 C2D (new battery and SSD to find out it finally died from original water damage a couple months later)

CL haul:
Macintosh Plus (CIB) (Bad analog board, KB+M styrofoam pack broken)
ImageWriter II (CIB)
800K external drive for mac
Kensington tilt/swivel for mac (really neat to be able to tilt a macintosh)
Powerbook G3 233 (CIB)
Original ADB keyboard
2x LaCie Electron19Blue IV Monitors
LaCie Electron19Blue III (there was a second one, but at that point I had a really annoyed friend in a car with no AC in the middle of summer)

EDIT: forgot MBP

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Been given some bits and peices for free.

No photo, but a Pentium 4 661 3.6ghz Costa Rica. Probably one of the fastest P4 single cores out there, perfect for my Win98 build.

And then this.

Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96, soundcard and front panel. Missing it's IDE cable but easy to get. I have no idea what any of the other ports are on the soundcard board or what they do, any ideas?

Board: Blue line in, Front output, rear output, center/subwoofer output
Front panel: the round orange connectors, and the square optical ones are for digital audio (Input from CD/DVD/DAT/MD player, output to MD/DAT). The MIDI ones are well, MIDI and i'll leave it there since there are other members who can go into further detail than I can. Peak LED by mic input indicates that the volume gain for your mic possible needs to be turned down to avoid clipping/bad sound (simplified explanation) Only thing is I don't see a way to ground a turntable on that phono input.

That's a short explanation but should be enough to give you an ide of what the card does. It looks to be in between the creative cards like audigy 2 and the full on professional recording cards. You'll probably get really nice clean headphone output from that shielded front panel.

Here's the maual as well

http://terratec.ultron.info/Audio/DMX6fire249 … 6_Manual_GB.pdf

Geforce 8600, MSI passive edition. LP xfx Geforce 8600, Geforce 210, HD6450, 30+ 1gb sticks of DDR2, and 6 sata drives ranging from 160-320gb. Not bad! Plus 4 sticks of DDR2 1066 in 1gb flavor.

Saved a stack of obsolete (hah!) media from the bin. I was very pleased to find the first, ever, LS120 superdisk I've seen in person, despite having had two of the drives installed in PCs I use regularly since 2013.

The zip disks & 720k floppies were a nice score too. There were also some 1.44MB ones but I didn't include those in the pic because they're boring.

After carefully checking it over for defects, I inserted the precious Superdisk in one of my drives, and...

It's empty!

There's a good chance this thing's never been used.

Far more amusing were the contents of one of the 720k disks, which contained exactly three files:

...the CV of an esteemed former professor in my department and these two wav files of Homer Simpson for god knows what reason. I don't even.

I love floppy disk archaeology.

Let's play a guessing game. I was putting a crappy machine into the cage at work yesterday, prior to it being disposed of. And then I saw this bad boy:

I couldn't take it there and then (it is now in my car) but an external inspection gave me enough clues to get pretty excited about what might be inside, never mind the enormous case. The Plextor drive is also something I've been after forever (time to burn some CD+G discs!). Obviously it came from a video editing suite. Here's a shot of it alongside a standard Gateway desktop from the same era:

I had all night to think about the specs, and it turns out I was spot-on. Can you guess?

Hmm, interesting question!

I'm guessing a late P3, around 1GHz, i815 motherboard. The indicators are, onboard sound, Win 2K installed and floppy drive. The last slot may possibly be an ISA slot, and if so, rules out the i815 motherboard. The second last slot looks like it has a PCI 3Com 905 card in it. The VGA card looks like a Matrox Dual-Head or an ATi card.

orcish75 wrote:

Hmm, interesting question!

I'm guessing a late P3, around 1GHz, i815 motherboard. The indicators are, onboard sound, Win 2K installed and floppy drive. The last slot may possibly be an ISA slot, and if so, rules out the i815 motherboard. The second last slot looks like it has a PCI 3Com 905 card in it. The VGA card looks like a Matrox Dual-Head or an ATi card.

Very close! Anyone want to get closer?

Pretty sure the graphics card is an ATi Radeon 7500 - the connector spacing looks wrong for a G400/G450, and the G550 always had at least one DVI-I, IIRC, as did later Radeons and GeForces. Every Radeon VE I've ever seen had VGA and DVI-I, too. There may have been a Quadro produced with dual VGA, but if there was, I'm not remembering it.

Looks like there's a PCI Firewire card and an analog capture card, probably both connected to that bay module in front - I'm not real familiar with Canopus gear, but I know they made a combined DV/analog setup, which is probably what's there.

I actually wonder if that's not a dual Slot 1 Pentium 3 rig, now that I think about it. Would make sense for video editing. What I'm surprised not to see, though, is a SCSI card. I would have guessed the Plextor optical drive was SCSI, and that a video editing rig would have SCSI disks, but I don't see a SCSI card back there. Though a dualie rig might have SCSI on the motherboard.

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Pretty sure the graphics card is an ATi Radeon 7500 - the connector spacing looks wrong for a G400/G450, and the G550 always had at least one DVI-I, IIRC, as did later Radeons and GeForces. Every Radeon VE I've ever seen had VGA and DVI-I, too. There may have been a Quadro produced with dual VGA, but if there was, I'm not remembering it.

Looks like there's a PCI Firewire card and an analog capture card, probably both connected to that bay module in front - I'm not real familiar with Canopus gear, but I know they made a combined DV/analog setup, which is probably what's there.

I actually wonder if that's not a dual Slot 1 Pentium 3 rig, now that I think about it. Would make sense for video editing. What I'm surprised not to see, though, is a SCSI card. I would have guessed the Plextor optical drive was SCSI, and that a video editing rig would have SCSI disks, but I don't see a SCSI card back there. Though a dualie rig might have SCSI on the motherboard.

Okay the pair of you have combined to be close enough. It is indeed an SMP setup, but it's dual socket 370. I have no idea what the CPUs are but the mobo is a Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 - an unremarkable Apollo Pro 133A board praised more for its stability than features or speed. It's aimed at server / workstation setups but without integrated SCSI or PCI-X it's pretty useless as a server imho. The chipset also lacks Tualatin support, of course, and an ISA slot was an option - I haven't looked close enough to see if this has one on the board or not. The storage is indeed running off IDE, which not only limits the speed to the onboard ATA66, but also the number of devices to 4. Considering this was a custom-build, SCSI is a glaring omission.

EDIT: it's quite possible that it did have SCSI and that the card was removed (hence the missing blanking plate) - I'll know later when I look more closely at the Plextor. The presence of IDE drives would suggest otherwise though.

The graphics card is indeed a G450, itself unremarkable performance-wise, so probably chosen for image quality / dual head feature more than anything else given it was a video editing workstation. And yes, it's a Canopus DVStorm-RT, a pretty good solution for its time. If it still boots I might find Premiere 6.0 on there.

Not exactly a kick-ass setup, but the Matrox and Plextor are good finds, and the case is perfect for my dual Tualatin server.

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Pretty sure the graphics card is an ATi Radeon 7500 - the connector spacing looks wrong for a G400/G450, and the G550 always had at least one DVI-I, IIRC, as did later Radeons and GeForces. Every Radeon VE I've ever seen had VGA and DVI-I, too. There may have been a Quadro produced with dual VGA, but if there was, I'm not remembering it.

Looks like there's a PCI Firewire card and an analog capture card, probably both connected to that bay module in front - I'm not real familiar with Canopus gear, but I know they made a combined DV/analog setup, which is probably what's there.

I actually wonder if that's not a dual Slot 1 Pentium 3 rig, now that I think about it. Would make sense for video editing. What I'm surprised not to see, though, is a SCSI card. I would have guessed the Plextor optical drive was SCSI, and that a video editing rig would have SCSI disks, but I don't see a SCSI card back there. Though a dualie rig might have SCSI on the motherboard.

Okay the pair of you have combined to be close enough. It is indeed an SMP setup, but it's dual socket 370. I have no idea what the CPUs are but the mobo is a Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 - an unremarkable Apollo Pro 133A board praised more for its stability than features or speed. It's aimed at server / workstation setups but without integrated SCSI or PCI-X it's pretty useless as a server imho. The chipset also lacks Tualatin support, of course, and an ISA slot was an option - I haven't looked close enough to see if this has one on the board or not. The storage is indeed running off IDE, which not only limits the speed to the onboard ATA66, but also the number of devices to 4. Considering this was a custom-build, SCSI is a glaring omission.

EDIT: it's quite possible that it did have SCSI and that the card was removed (hence the missing blanking plate) - I'll know later when I look more closely at the Plextor. The presence of IDE drives would suggest otherwise though.

The graphics card is indeed a G450, itself unremarkable performance-wise, so probably chosen for image quality / dual head feature more than anything else given it was a video editing workstation. And yes, it's a Canopus DVStorm-RT, a pretty good solution for its time. If it still boots I might find Premiere 6.0 on there.

Not exactly a kick-ass setup, but the Matrox and Plextor are good finds, and the case is perfect for my dual Tualatin server.

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I'd love to get a system like that, i can't even find a dual Socket 370 with AGP slot here, rip

First of all sorry for my crappy english!

Old shop owner in town had to throw away a couple of pcs, exchanged 'em with parts of a tube amplifier(he's talented at repairing'em)

He also gave me a couple of monitors, 17 inch acer j17, and that unknown 'Orion' crt
Little one is a celeron 900, hp branded, nothing special , except for that removable hard drive

The big one, with that green and fancy energy saving button (hmm don't remember seeing those back in the day),holds a great surprise: Pentium 200mmx with one of those hybrid motherboards capable of both at and atx psu, simm and dimms.

There's a 3dfx pci card inside! Can't recognize the model, probably a banshee?

Also a terratec sound card! Really neat! I'll make a great '97 pc out of this. Like the one i had

mongaccio wrote:

There's a 3dfx pci card inside! Can't recognize the model, probably a banshee?

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Looks like a Voodoo 3

Carlos S. M. wrote:

mongaccio wrote:

There's a 3dfx pci card inside! Can't recognize the model, probably a banshee?

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Looks like a Voodoo 3

Not just... It is a V3-3000-PCI. (lots of money saved there)