First post, by x0zm_
I've posted tidbits of information in a couple of threads, but made a thread just for this so I can compile everything here between this trip's purchases and next trip's purchases.
I was recently in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and thought I'd see what retro hardware I could find there. I got some great scores. Better than I ever could have imagined. Unfortunately I lost all my pics since my phone was broken while I was over there (but I did buy a new Xiaomi phone which is excellent). Next trip I'll take a backup camera and a lot of photos, and maybe some footage too.
I couldn't bring everything back with me because of luggage size and weight restrictions so I did have to ship them back in a big box via Sea Mail, and I am still waiting on it. But let's get right into it. I'll update it with images as they arrive to me.
Huaqiang Electronics World:
The holy grail of used computer parts. Four (or five?) story monster mall of stalls and stands. I was expecting LGA1366 era, C2D/C2Q and the like. I did NOT expect to come out with five Voodoo5 5500s - three AGP, one PCI and one PCI MAC, Pentium I and II CPUs, Socket 7 motherboards, a dual Tualatin board and a lot of RAM.
With the exception of a slightly dodgy inductor on the middle card which I'll get around to replacing, they are in near perfect physical condition and all work fine with 183MHz overclocks.
I also bought a small sampling of AGP and PCI slots, and a Socket 7 CPU seat from another vendor. He spoke very broken English and I spoke very broken Mandarin, but we got there in the end. He gave me his email address in case I ever wanted more, and I will. These will be used for my display stand project.
CPU is Foxconn, AGP is Lotes and PCI is Flyconn. Never heard of Flyconn, but the quality seems nice enough.
---More pics for other cards, mobos, etc to come here once box arrives---
I'd recommend anyone visiting China to check this place out. You'll regret it if you don't.