Socket 3 PCI boards have become rather rare / expensive.
So this seemed worth a gamble.

I may be a fool and it might turn out to be utterly useless yet.

Intel Aries chipset with CL onboard VGA. 2 PCI, 3 ISA via riser.

Searching those numbers so far hints at some rather proprietary embedded controller of industrial cnc machinery...
(no documentation whatsover in sight...)

RandomStranger wrote on Today, 13:32:

Today I picked up two of the graphics cards of all time.

MX4000 32bit, the worst of the Geforce 2/4 MX

Wow a 32 bit NV18, weren't those banned by the Montreal protocol? 🤣
The part I like the most is that premium low-loss inductor at L19
On the bright side it has 5ns memory and the passives for the missing modules seem all there so it may be possibile to turn it into a gaming powerhouse just by soldering the missing ICs and flashing a 64 bit bios*.

andrea wrote on Today, 18:04:

Wow a 32 bit NV18, weren't those banned by the Montreal protocol? XD The part I like the most is that premium low-loss inductor […]
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RandomStranger wrote on Today, 13:32:

Today I picked up two of the graphics cards of all time.

MX4000 32bit, the worst of the Geforce 2/4 MX

Wow a 32 bit NV18, weren't those banned by the Montreal protocol? 🤣
The part I like the most is that premium low-loss inductor at L19
On the bright side it has 5ns memory and the passives for the missing modules seem all there so it may be possibile to turn it into a gaming powerhouse just by soldering the missing ICs and flashing a 64 bit bios*.

*

On NV34 the bios defines the memory ranks and the hw straps set the module size. NV18 is designed to be pin-compatible with NV34 so i don't think nVidia reinvented the wheel for nothing

Ironically Sparkle made the exact opposite of that 🤣
https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/spar … sp7310m4t-128mb

Some interesting cards, physically okay, but needs testing.

I can't test the Compaq CPU/RAM board as I lack a Prosignia (?). That funky EISA card with all the RJ45 jacks is going to be a challenge as well, so I don't think I'm gonna spend time on that.

andrea wrote on Today, 18:04:

On the bright side it has 5ns memory and the passives for the missing modules seem all there so it may be possibile to turn it into a gaming powerhouse just by soldering the missing ICs and flashing a 64 bit bios*.

That was the first thing when I've seen it, but that would defeat the purpose of having the worst 😁