giantenemycat wrote on Yesterday, 19:43:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Yesterday, 18:13:

Nice! That is pretty much the level of system that a lot of us suspected, along with the upgrades and such. Getting a YMF719 is a nice bonus, for sure. 😀

I definitely think we should have a thread for these. I enjoy the detective work (and guessing) involved.

This is my third from the same seller. He sells them (seemingly genuinely) untested, and ships them with a lot of bubble wrap in a mailing with no box at all. Surprisingly only 1 of them arrived with notable damage to the case. The upside is they're always £40, so especially if you see an AT KB port, you know it's basically guaranteed to be more valuable than that in parts alone by some margin.

Other than that, it's difficult to find such mystery boxes unfortunately. Although a dedicated thread might be a good idea, to pool everyone's finds together.

I think I found your supplier on eBay.

Judging from one backplate being consistently missing from all boxes that have an iGPU, I suspect someone is pulling graphics cards before sale - so the older ones that you are jumping on are probably better value. And, I envy your new Yamaha sound card! 😀

Phil is auctioning off some of his video cards on eBay. I ended up buying a pair of STB Voodoo2 cards from him.

MattRocks wrote on Yesterday, 22:18:

I think I found your supplier on eBay.

Judging from one backplate being consistently missing from all boxes that have an iGPU, I suspect someone is pulling graphics cards before sale - so the older ones that you are jumping on are probably better value. And, I envy your new Yamaha sound card! 😀

I'm sure those looted graphics cards are mostly absolute gems like GeForce4 MX 440-SE and Radeon 9200 SE, stuff like that. Next up these people will be pillaging SDR and DDR because they heard about the RAM shortage.