liqmat wrote on 2022-09-04, 11:02:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-09-04, 01:55:

I'm currently using my electric leaf blower. It does a great job it's just a bit big and awkward for some of the smaller cases.

Nice! An image of Duke Nukem holding a massive leaf blower in his hands and a tiny computer case at his feet just popped into my head.

That's funny.

I bought this Dell GX300 (820 chipset). It's in fabulous condition; just a little dusty on the inside. It included two Coppermine 733/133MHz, 512MB of RDRAM and a TNT2 M64, but all of these parts are going by the wayside for components more fitting of a Windows 2000 install. I've already started the sterilization process (no upgrade parts shown, just those which were originally part of the system).

I didn't know those GX300s were Slot 1! I figured based on when they came out that they would be Socket 370!

Neice system dual Slot u got there. But the brand is disgusting to me, i have desktop based DELL is similar to this one also Intel 820, but the build quality is shitty, no matter back in these years they were made in Ireland... Prefer myself to sell any DELL i get, and replace it with WAY superior Compaq, IBM or even HP...

U can imagine my shock and disgust, when i got this system, and to find out that the top of the case is not metal cvered with plastic, but the whole top and front was shitty plastic... I was like wtf never have seen such BS from so old systems FK dell. Not to mention they were one of the main scumbags that did take money from Intel in order to fk the competition.....

Dont and never will understand ppl that like pieces of shit like DELL... Their systems are just not on par with Compaq, IBM or even HP in terms of build quality. Sure the caps and insides may be ok, but the cases and PSUs suck... Before years i had x2 DELL 19 inch CRTs they were full SONY Trinitron inside, everything Japan made, good stuff, but guess what, these idiots from DELL did cheap out on the plastic, that did result in the top with the plastic grill of the monitors to be cracked, broken and falling apart... Fuck dell man....

Turbo -> wrote on 2022-09-04, 18:03:

Bought this Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 AGP at a flea market. Hopefully, it works.

As the judge in Caddy Shack said...

Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-09-03, 19:36:

Not great, not terrible. I was hoping for something like a P3, but it's a P4 system: P4B266-C, one gig of PC2100, no onboard network so a NIC, an Nvidia USB 2.0 card (I just found that one of these reduced my 3D Mark 2001 score by several hundred points in another P4 system) a 16 megabyte TNT 2 M64, and an SB0100 Live 5.1 card. It has a couple of obviously bad caps, usually not that serious, but this board won't POST. When you flip the power supply switch the green power LED comes on, but nothing happens when you hit the power switch. I swapped in a known good PSU, but no change. I'll keep working on it of course. The case is definitely nothing special, and it is crunched on one of the top corners.

I replaced the bad caps and updated it to the last BIOS, and I had high hopes that I had a Northwood in the pile that would work since it has a 1.7/400 with 256 L2 in it right now. It would POST with all three Northwoods I have; two 2.4 /512/533 and a 2.53/512/533 and you could choose the proper speed in the CMOS settings, but it wouldn't POST with any of them at full speed. And when I left them underclocked, Windows 98 would lock up. A bit of a disappointment since the PCChips/SiS board I have is also 400 FSB chipset but it works fine with 533 FSB CPUs. Things don't always go according to plan when you run things out of spec. I guess I'll spend a few bucks for a faster 400 FSB P4.

The Rise MP6 Pr266 arrived today from Taiwan, time to fire it up and see how it compares !!

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-09-05, 06:22:

The Rise MP6 Pr266 arrived today from Taiwan, time to fire it up and see how it compares !!

Make your name legend and keep us updated!

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-09-05, 06:22:

The Rise MP6 Pr266 arrived today from Taiwan, time to fire it up and see how it compares !!

It appears that mp6s are fragile physically, careful !

JustJulião wrote on 2022-09-04, 18:07:

Not really bought since it's from the old (used) stock from a reseller that used the same local as my company. Two 440BX classi […]
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Not really bought since it's from the old (used) stock from a reseller that used the same local as my company.
Two 440BX classics.
Asus P2B and Abit BH6
IMG_20220904_194127.jpg

They got a new friend (this one has been bought). I'm close to have all the best early 440BX boards reunited, right ? What should I get next ? Gigabyte's ? I also have a NMC 6BEX (EPOX EP-bx5-C german replica).
I might do a comparison. Not being "period correct" to bring something new. Latest bios, with Tua adapter and newer graphics card, heavy overclocking, newer benchmarks...

JustJulião wrote on 2022-09-05, 11:15:

It appears that mp6's are fragile physically, careful ! […]
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-09-05, 06:22:

The Rise MP6 Pr266 arrived today from Taiwan, time to fire it up and see how it compares !!

It appears that mp6's are fragile physically, careful !

JustJulião wrote on 2022-09-04, 18:07:

Not really bought since it's from the old (used) stock from a reseller that used the same local as my company. Two 440BX classi […]
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Not really bought since it's from the old (used) stock from a reseller that used the same local as my company.
Two 440BX classics.
Asus P2B and Abit BH6
IMG_20220904_194127.jpg

They got a new friend (this one has been bought). I'm close to have all the best early 440BX boards reunited, right ? What should I get next ? Gigabyte's ? I also have a NMC 6BEX (EPOX EP-bx5-C german replica).
I might do a comparison. Not being "period correct" to bring something new. Latest bios, with Tua adapter and newer graphics card, heavy overclocking, newer benchmarks...IMG_20220905_131845.jpg

It honestly looks like a NOS BGA version that has been reballed on to a fiber substrate .. much like the Pentium MMX chips are .. but its a nice green colour.

I will be sure to take care of it as I doubt I will get another so eaisly.

what a beautiful card :3

Most Elsa's are. Looks better than AWE Gold 😀.
Same thing can be said for Canopus.

imi wrote on 2022-09-05, 11:53:

what a beautiful card :3

hardware40_96.jpg

Very nice, I have XHR version (dual ISA/EISA card), but I wouldn't mind having this one as well 😁

stef80 wrote on 2022-09-05, 12:20:

Most Elsa's are. Looks better than AWE Gold 😀.
Same thing can be said for Canopus.

I have Elsa Winner 1000/T2D card that came to me with Pentium PC. I did not pay attention to it initially - just an S3 card, nothing interesting, but then looked closer - even ordinary green PCB looks great.

Acquired a BUNCH of stuff via 2 seperate 300 mile round trips. One to STL and one to Indiana. Noteworthy catches include:

* 21" Inch Apple Studio Display (CRT; Trinitron type)
* 19" Sony PVM-1953MD (CRT; Trinitron Type)
* 17" Compaq Monitor S7500 (CRT; Shadow Mask)
* Dell Optiplex GX280 (Socket 478 w/AGP and SATA)
* ASUS A8V-X (Socket 939 w/ AGP and Quad SATA with RAID support)
* IBM Thinkpad T60p (Semi-Frankenpad? Its a T60p screen, the chassis has a type number for T60 non-P, with a T60P FireGL 5250)
* IBM Thinkpad R40 (Missing some keys, need to find a reasonably priced keyboard. Has the optional 32MB R7500 Graphics)
* ATI Radeon 9550XL 256MB AGP
* 3 dozens assorted optical drives and hard drives

I was planning on doing a high end AGP/SATA build with my ABIT VT7, but now I'm debating if I should use this A8V-X instead.

imi wrote on 2022-09-05, 11:53:

what a beautiful card :3

hardware40_96.jpg

It sure is. Looking at the ISA connector, it looks unsed. Is it?

it came inside a PC, so definitely used ^^ but seeing how the rest of the PC was quite dusty this probably was a later addition.

Didn't buy this today but have been waiting for it to arrive, This lovely looking bit of hardware is a 128mb 128bit MX4000, now I have another of these 128bit MX4000 cards but its only 64mb which I suspect isnt actually a 128bit bus card and it doesnt look as nice as this one does. This one has 4 32mb ICs on it, two per side the other only has two on one side.

This one is also a nice PCI model which makes it far more useful to me than its AGP variant, Im also looking at grabbing a PCI MX440 down the line.

Well I guess I’m replacing my Socket 1 system for the time being, since I now have a rather nice 2002(with Audigy 2ZS from 2003) build ready to go thanks to finding this P4 motherboard. I’d love to find a manual for it, but that’s apparently not easy to do without ads or watermarks.

It came with a gigabyte of DDR and a 2.6Ghz P4, which I don’t really think needs to be upgraded. Of course, I’m already edging at too much for 2002, so I might as well find a 3.0.

Won the trifecta on this one:

Physical damage
Electrical damage (NO ESD protection)
Water damage

Tested a few of the contents and nothing worked.