oldpcgeek5 wrote on 2025-11-04, 22:33:

Nice, love old 32MB AGP video cards-which graphics chipset?

Here it is:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti (NV15), Direct3D 7 / OpenGL 1.2/1.3 era, 4×2 pipelines. Reference clocks 250 MHz core / 400 MHz DDR memory.
Memory: 32 MB DDR. 128-bit bus.
Bus: AGP 4×/2× (with Fast Writes).
RAMDAC: 350 MHz.

TheIpex wrote on 2025-11-04, 23:26:

Nice card, look at all those outputs. I believe this card originally shipped with 3D Glasses?

Yes, indeed, it has a 3-pin stereo glasses connector supporting ASUS VR-100 shutter glasses.

Picked up an unknown PCI card today.
It labeled as Schneider Systemtechnik – IMB-PCI Rev.3 (27-Jan-1997)
Three BNCs on the bracket: Tx, Rx, and TRIG IN . Four angled SIMM sockets.

At least I can use this card as a donor for SIM sockets for my SB AWE 32 sound card. 25 and 40 MHz crystal oscillators can be used too.

Another Tulip came into my possession, the AT 386/16. It was the cheapest model, unfortunately not the dx with seperate cache controller. You can't have everything. 😁

Needs cleaning and testing, probably going to replace all the caps.
Also the TC12 isn't on the Retro Web!

Got a few goodies. Thanks to @Socket3 for part of the haul!

- IWill BD100 Plus - interesting 440BX board. Shares some similarities to several mainboards - specifically DFI for the fonts and brown FAN headers, Gigabyte for the ATMEL PAL chip it uses (which auto-IDs the CPUs I assume), and finally, ASUS for most of its layout as a whole. There were hints of EPoX too (an unpopulated JP3 header near the PAL chip).

- P2 350MHz - came with the IWill. Has a noisy and rattly Cooler Master fan (whole cooling is actually CM branded.) which I'll have to replace. 100FSB.

- 3D Prophet 4000XT - unfortunately dead. Flashers see the Kyro card but COMPLETELY REFUSE to write the onboard flash. The only thing I haven't tried (and will eventually do) is getting the card positioned so as to flash it using a TL866 *WITHOUT* removing it off the board - it's a possibility, for which reason I'll sideline the card. I do have to buy myself a set of PLCC32 sockets for cards that don't have them by default.

- FX5900XT Creative - strange, it POSTs in any board I stick it into - but there's no video output on either VGA or DVI.

- FX5950 Ultra - unfortunately RIP. Burnt cap near molex plug which must've also zapped the core.

- AMD K6-III/400AHX - best CPU for a build I plan using Tekram P5M3-A+. MVP3 and ATA100, anyone? (686A southbridge 😁)

- 370SP Rev3.0 - only now I realize that despite having a 1.8v setting, it's still a Mendocino slotket. Oh well. Fastfame OEM.

- Sparkle SP3800 (Banshee 16M) - works, needed a Banshee that works in my collection.

- 2x SB Live! PCI - CT4670, SB0060 - the SB0060 was sent by accident by the seller. I later then got the 4670 (which was the card I had ordered). Finished TLC on the SB0060 (neutralized corrosion + spray-painted the bracket) and removed corrosion off several pins on the 4670.

- Soltek SL-75FRN2-L "Purple Ray" - the purple version of the well known nF2 U400 board from Soltek. Funny enough, I have the purple variant while Socket3 has the "Golden Flame" variant.

Still need to purchase:

- V3 2000 PCi
- Diamond MX300
- K7Pro
- K7V

And to figure out the GAL situation on my BX Master once the TL866 arrives.

my RV350s arrived in mint condition, "fresh" from the factory (just two decades of waiting).

Now I need time.. then I can swap the one on my hercules card..

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-11-07, 15:37:

my RV350s arrived in mint condition, "fresh" from the factory (just two decades of waiting).

Now I need time.. then I can swap the one on my hercules card..

I see the resemblance. Is this a relative of yours?

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-11-07, 17:06:

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-11-07, 15:37:

my RV350s arrived in mint condition, "fresh" from the factory (just two decades of waiting).

Now I need time.. then I can swap the one on my hercules card..

I see the resemblance. Is this a relative of yours?

Far away cousin.. We share some common ancestors (AGP).

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-11-07, 15:37:

my RV350s arrived in mint condition, "fresh" from the factory (just two decades of waiting).

Now I need time.. then I can swap the one on my hercules card..

I’d be a bit scared of those little capacitors flying around when she’s getting installed 😅 May the force be with you…

zuldan wrote on 2025-11-07, 20:26:

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-11-07, 15:37:

my RV350s arrived in mint condition, "fresh" from the factory (just two decades of waiting).

Now I need time.. then I can swap the one on my hercules card..

I’d be a bit scared of those little capacitors flying around when she’s getting installed 😅 May the force be with you…

The secret ingredient is infra-red 😁

Some more goodies, this time from Facebook marketplace.

Everything is functional save for the Rev 1.1 Gigabyte board.

Looking at those gigabyte boards, I really come to like them. Compared to todays "all-black" aesthetics they are just pretty colorful. Perhaps less is not always more.. I did not appreciate them like that back in the day.. but even my MSI P35 Neo2 had some bright colors next to the black PCB.

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-11-08, 06:39:

Looking at those gigabyte boards, I really come to like them. Compared to todays "all-black" aesthetics they are just pretty colorful. Perhaps less is not always more.. I did not appreciate them like that back in the day.. but even my MSI P35 Neo2 had some bright colors next to the black PCB.

Aye these boards are a source of nostalgia for me, I had a P35-DS3L back in 2008 with that same bright colour scheme.

TheIpex wrote on 2025-11-08, 07:38:

Aye these boards are a source of nostalgia for me, I had a P35-DS3L back in 2008 with that same bright colour scheme.

Used a couple of P35-DS3L and EP45-DS3L in builds for family and friends. Lovely boards, I really enjoyed them. Fond memories of Core2Duo E2160 running at 3.4GHz on one of these. Overclocking was wild back then. I sold my E4500 + MSI P35 Neo2 + 4GB of OCZ memory a couple of years ago. It was a great time to do budget builds.

I too like that era of Gigabyte boards. They offered so many connect options as the end of floppy support arrived. SATA with IDE and floppies, USB, parallel and serial, they’re great in modded retro builds.

Bought bunch of stuf: geforce 7900gs, geforce mx460, 4 x new old stock hdd IDE 40GB and geforce 6600gt.

Paid like ~70eur total.

I have cleaned up the geforce, added cooling radiators to vram and oc'ed to 576 MHz on gpu and 1630 MHz on vram (512 ddr3).

winuser_pl wrote on 2025-11-08, 20:24:

Bought bunch of stuf: geforce 7900gs, geforce mx460, 4 x new old stock hdd IDE 40GB and geforce 6600gt.

Paid like ~70eur total.

I have cleaned up the geforce, added cooling radiators to vram and oc'ed to 576 MHz on gpu and 1630 MHz on vram (512 ddr3).

Nice find. An actual MX460 is surprisingly uncommon, at least in my experience. Should be a really solid card for DX7 and older games.

Looks like that Sparkle 6600GT has some bloated and leaky caps though, so you'll want to replace those before doing much with it. 🙂

@UP - yes, the capacitors went bad. Already recapped 😁 also the mx460 is mint condition.
For this price it would be stupid not to take it 😁 also the 7900gs is killing all games in 1920x1200 on my 24" dell ips panel - far cry 1, gta sa, even fallout 3 goes very well.

Yet another Pentium OverDrive 83 and this time, it comes with 24MB SIMM-72 RAM for $164.70 after S&H and sales tax, which I know is a bit much.

Forgive me for the image. Apparently, the image was in the description and I had to do a screenshot of it, which was a pain in the rear end.

I took for retroHW use, three 1GB CF memory cards, I think I'll use them on PCs like 386-486, although maybe the older ones, they have an HD capacity limit of about 540MB, we'll see if I have these problems, in case I can use them for first generation Pentium PCs or similar.