NJRoadfan wrote:

Take a look at Supermicro P6SBA motherboards on ebay. The pricing is crazy for some reason and people seem to be purchasing them. Its just a run of the mill 440BX ATX motherboard, nothing special at all. No crazy overclocking, no onboard SCSI. It even has the infamous AMI WinBIOS. Does anyone know if this board happened to be used in some special piece of equipment? I have one, perhaps I should sell it.

What I like to do when I notice a trend like that that doesn't seem to make any sense is to look up some old reviews of the part to see if there's anything special about it. In this case, I see no reason why this board should sell so high. The reviews I have been able to find say it's just a basic motherboard with no special features that would make it stand out from other similar motherboards. It is somewhat fast for what it is, but has no built in overclocking options and THG notes compatibility issues with a lot of different plug in cards. Maybe it's the Supermicro name that is driving it, but it is a pretty low end product compared to other motherboards that Supermicro has produced. It's definitely not up to the same level of quality as the server boards they are famous for.

NJRoadfan wrote:

Take a look at Supermicro P6SBA motherboards on ebay. The pricing is crazy for some reason and people seem to be purchasing them. Its just a run of the mill 440BX ATX motherboard, nothing special at all. No crazy overclocking, no onboard SCSI. It even has the infamous AMI WinBIOS. Does anyone know if this board happened to be used in some special piece of equipment? I have one, perhaps I should sell it.

Possibly because it has 3 ISA slots?

Who knows, probably just people cashing in on the retro DOS computing craze.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEXGEN-NX586-ISA-MOTH … =item2ecb784899

Hard to find as they are, an nx586 motherboard with CPU is NOT worth $550, especially not the VL-bus boards.

The same seller also has an nx586 by itself for $150. It's one of the unmarked types, though, so you're buying a pig in a poke. Is it the more common 80/90mhz rated model or the faster and rarer 120/133mhz model? You won't know until you get it home and install it in a system to find out if you've overpaid and by then it's too late.

Oh and that guy from China with the built in floating point version dropped his asking price from $850 to $500 a while ago but I think he's still being overly optimistic about how much it is worth.

Sound Blaster CT1740 for $149 BIN, what a generous offer for the card which worth is just a couple of bucks.

bristlehog wrote:

Sound Blaster CT1740 for $149 BIN, what a generous offer for the card which worth is just a couple of bucks.

Looks like he added an additional "9" at the end.

I think he forgot a decimal point between 1 and 4.

This one made me laugh. "A few bent pins" (i.e. nearly all of them), 30 bucks PLUS 13 bucks to post CPU chip - what a steal!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/A80486DX2-66-NV8t- … daf4b3f7&_uhb=1

In Russia you can easily buy an Am486-66 in such condition (untested with bent pins) for $3.

By the way, is there a way to make strikethrough effect here?

Yowza!

Diamond Edge 3240 - no box - $1250 bin.

Somehow he's got **5** of these ??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?View … vectorid=229466

If he sells any of those for that price, i'll be listing mine

A new high for an AWE64 Gold

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Sound-Blaste … =item2585aee2e3

$399 AUD 🤣

Its supposedly new and sealed, so its worth half that at least, if its legit.

Its not retro and not on the bay but at $31k and change it is pretty pricey.
http://www.amazon.com/Pretec-Multi-Express-25 … resscard+34+ssd

ATi Rage Fury Maxx 499 GBP.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATi-Rage-Fury-Maxx-Ra … =item43c2e8a85c

badmojo wrote:

This one made me laugh. "A few bent pins" (i.e. nearly all of them), 30 bucks PLUS 13 bucks to post CPU chip - what a steal!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/A80486DX2-66-NV8t- … daf4b3f7&_uhb=1

What do you think a reasonable price for a DX2 66 would be? Clearly $30 is too much but, what, $10-$15?

Yeah 10 bucks I'd say, they seem pretty common.

DX2-66 is probably the most common of all 486 chips out there so you shouldn't pay too much for them. $10 is probably OK for a single chip, but I've seen them for as low as $6 or $7 each in bulk lots.

BTW

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEXGEN-NX586-ISA-MOTH … =item2ecc5a064a

$550? I don't think so. If those were selling for that much, I would put my entire Nexgen collection up for sale right now. I'll probably never sell mine, though, because they are too hard to replace. 🤣

sliderider wrote:

DX2-66 is probably the most common of all 486 chips out there so you shouldn't pay too much for them. $10 is probably OK for a single chip, but I've seen them for as low as $6 or $7 each in bulk lots.

I have a few of them, I was asking because I'm offloading a bunch of CPUs, and wanted some figure to work with. In the end, I just chucked all of the chips up with a $8 reserve, and $15 BIN.

Good deal on a working 486 machine for someone in australia

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Retro-Gaming-486DX … =item19e634f0dc

DonutKing wrote:

Good deal on a working 486 machine for someone in australia

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Retro-Gaming-486DX … =item19e634f0dc

Are you being sarcastic or did you not notice this was the "Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online" thread? 🤣