stef80 wrote on 2022-09-20, 06:59:

Ah ... decisions decisions :). I'm thinking of migrating my main slot-1 rig from 440BX to VIA Apollo Pro 133A (Asus P3 V4X). So […]
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smtkr wrote on 2022-09-20, 00:06:

stef80 wrote on 2022-09-19, 10:55:

Managed to get my hands on two "new old stock" Asus boards.

Tusl2 I bought from a friend who got 10 such boards from a guy who had computer parts business years ago. All of the boards had a pattern of 3 bad caps that needed to be replaced. P5A came from ebay.de. It's revision 1.04 ... so K6-3+ 400ATZ found new home 😁.

Nice find. I keep trying to decide if I want to buy one of these, or keep using a slotket/440BX.

Ah ... decisions decisions 😀.
I'm thinking of migrating my main slot-1 rig from 440BX to VIA Apollo Pro 133A (Asus P3 V4X). Some advantages:
* 133Mhz FSB
* up to 1GB memory module size supported .... unbelievable for SDRAM platform
* AGP 4x
* UltraATA 66
* 6 x PCI + 1 x ISA

It would be interesting to compare such platform with Intel i815 using same 133MHz FSB CPU. VIA drivers were not the greatest at the time, but that was fixed at some point.

Regarding TrashPanda's / Radical Visions lament, I'd still choose Asus for the time period over Abit / Epox / Soltek cap bulging horrors 😀.
BTW, this is Asus Tusl2-C ... unused/new from the box, after 20 years:
tusl2c.jpg
Friend bought 10 recently and they all have same pattern (3 caps, same location). I never knew caps could degrade so much without ever being used.

Those seem to be HMs that I've told Radical about. They're the 2001-2004 bad batch, and it doesn't surprise me they went bad. It surprises me they have hold for so much, despite being from the bad batch.

stef80 wrote on 2022-09-20, 06:59:

Ah ... decisions decisions :). I'm thinking of migrating my main slot-1 rig from 440BX to VIA Apollo Pro 133A (Asus P3 V4X). So […]
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smtkr wrote on 2022-09-20, 00:06:

stef80 wrote on 2022-09-19, 10:55:

Managed to get my hands on two "new old stock" Asus boards.

Tusl2 I bought from a friend who got 10 such boards from a guy who had computer parts business years ago. All of the boards had a pattern of 3 bad caps that needed to be replaced. P5A came from ebay.de. It's revision 1.04 ... so K6-3+ 400ATZ found new home 😁.

Nice find. I keep trying to decide if I want to buy one of these, or keep using a slotket/440BX.

Ah ... decisions decisions 😀.
I'm thinking of migrating my main slot-1 rig from 440BX to VIA Apollo Pro 133A (Asus P3 V4X). Some advantages:
* 133Mhz FSB
* up to 1GB memory module size supported .... unbelievable for SDRAM platform
* AGP 4x
* UltraATA 66
* 6 x PCI + 1 x ISA

It would be interesting to compare such platform with Intel i815 using same 133MHz FSB CPU. VIA drivers were not the greatest at the time, but that was fixed at some point.

Regarding TrashPanda's / Radical Visions lament, I'd still choose Asus for the time period over Abit / Epox / Soltek cap bulging horrors 😀.
BTW, this is Asus Tusl2-C ... unused/new from the box, after 20 years:
tusl2c.jpg
Friend bought 10 recently and they all have same pattern (3 caps, same location). I never knew caps could degrade so much without ever being used.

Nah im cool with all retro gear, Radical is the one with the issue against ASUS and peasant gear. (I dont know how he defines peasant gear)

Everyone has had their share of bad experiences with brands. For what its worth I hate ABIT and anything nForce. To each their own.

What about nForce Abit ? 😁

appiah4 wrote on 2022-09-20, 12:58:

Everyone has had their share of bad experiences with brands. For what its worth I hate ABIT and anything nForce. To each their own.

Uff, what´s wrong with nForce?

A retro hardware purchase that arrived today, the Mad Dog McCree & Peacekeeper Revolver for the Philips CD-I:

The attached IR receiver for the gun:

Got this quite cheap as it didn't come with the actual game disc, which is no big deal as I already have the disc anyway and I just wanted the gun/IR receiver. The original box is a bonus and it is in ok condition for it's age.

This gun is quite cool in that it doesn't require an old CRT TV to function as most did back in the day, instead it works via the hardwired IR receiver and so can be used on modern TVs too!

stef80 wrote on 2022-09-20, 13:03:

What about nForce Abit ? 😁

Maybe they cancel each other out 😀

appiah4 wrote on 2022-09-20, 12:58:

Everyone has had their share of bad experiences with brands. For what its worth I hate ABIT and anything nForce. To each their own.

I'll be the one to truly ask you - what has ABIT done so bad that you hate them?
I'd understand hating nForce because the people at nVidia were awfully ignorant about the bumpgate issue (and for the record - it has been found to date way back to Geforce 4 days apparently, though take my info with a slight grain of salt.), but what's with ABIT's hatred, besides the nasty capacitor choice?

stef80 wrote on 2022-09-19, 10:55:

Managed to get my hands on two "new old stock" Asus boards. 20220919_122943.jpg 20220919_123025.jpg 20220919_123055.jpg […]
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Managed to get my hands on two "new old stock" Asus boards.
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and:
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Tusl2 I bought from a friend who got 10 such boards from a guy who had computer parts business years ago. All of the boards had a pattern of 3 bad caps that needed to be replaced. P5A came from ebay.de. It's revision 1.04 ... so K6-3+ 400ATZ found new home 😁.

Nice, perfect selection of boards. Now to find a boxed p/i p65up5 😁

PTherapist wrote on 2022-09-20, 14:25:

A retro hardware purchase that arrived today, the Mad Dog McCree & Peacekeeper Revolver for the Philips CD-I

Oh man, this brings back memories. I still have my Mad Dog McCree DOS CD. Of course with that version, I was using a mouse and I remember the game getting pretty tough and frustrating..

Got a few goddies in the past few days. Boxed V5, cyrix 6x86mx PR233, P233 mmx and K6-2 500 and this nice terminal from ampex. Unfortunately magic smoke appeared from the keyboard, look like one of the caps went kaboom.

Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro rigs, one I cant find much about and the other is a nice Yamaha Xwave 744 sound card.

I cant find a lot about this card on the web other than it uses the Sierra Falcon 64 chipset which I have never heard of before or ever used but the little I can find suggests its fast but buggy, in any case its an interesting bit of gear to have and im curious to see what DOS incompatibilities it has, going to put it up against the ARK1000PV and 2000PV to see just how it compares.

I dont have a XG 7XX PCI based card in my sound card box so when I saw this one for 20USD I grabbed it, hopefully I can locate all the software that it originally came with.

Bonus
Bought this ATAPI Zip100 with 4 disks just Today for 50AUD, I already have one SCSI Zip100 but its pretty much useless without a second one and a few disks to copy files between machines.

Bonus Bonus

Forgot I got this a week back a Savage 4 Pro 32mb PCI, its one of the Creative versions and itll be heading to my DOS/9x machine collection where all my PCI GPUs hide. (The one I received was still sealed in its hard shell cover which was a bonus)

Going to use this to play around with S3TC.

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-09-21, 08:01:

Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro […]
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Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro rigs, one I cant find much about and the other is a nice Yamaha Xwave 744 sound card.

STB Horizon64.png

I cant find a lot about this card on the web other than it uses the Sierra Falcon 64 chipset which I have never heard of before or ever used but the little I can find suggests its fast but buggy, in any case its an interesting bit of gear to have and im curious to see what DOS incompatibilities it has, going to put it up against the ARK1000PV and 2000PV to see just how it compares.

Yamaha Xwave.jpg

I dont have a XG 7XX PCI based card in my sound card box so when I saw this one for 20USD I grabbed it, hopefully I can locate all the software that it originally came with.

Bonus
Bought this ATAPI Zip100 with 4 disks just Today for 50AUD, I already have one SCSI Zip100 but its pretty much useless without a second one and a few disks to copy files between machines.

Zip100.jpg

Bonus Bonus

Forgot I got this a week back a Savage 4 Pro 32mb PCI, its one of the Creative versions and itll be heading to my DOS/9x machine collection where all my PCI GPUs hide. (The one I received was still sealed in its hard shell cover which was a bonus)

Savage4 Pro.jpg

Going to use this to play around with S3TC.

I bought a lot of iomega drives over the past month and in the end only two did work 100%.
Yesterday I had to give back a unit that wasn't working correctly (issues with the head, again not r/w the second half of any disk).

I got that if the seller states "works" because it lit up and read a disk, but wasn't tested thoroughly, is not worth it.
Basically gambling.

ATAPI Zip is way faster and easy to use.

Nexxen wrote on 2022-09-21, 09:59:

I bought a lot of iomega drives over the past month and in the end only two did work 100%. Yesterday I had to give back a unit t […]
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-09-21, 08:01:

Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro […]
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Havent had a huge opportunity to trawl the vintage stuff on the bay of late but I did see a few nice things to throw at my retro rigs, one I cant find much about and the other is a nice Yamaha Xwave 744 sound card.

STB Horizon64.png

I cant find a lot about this card on the web other than it uses the Sierra Falcon 64 chipset which I have never heard of before or ever used but the little I can find suggests its fast but buggy, in any case its an interesting bit of gear to have and im curious to see what DOS incompatibilities it has, going to put it up against the ARK1000PV and 2000PV to see just how it compares.

Yamaha Xwave.jpg

I dont have a XG 7XX PCI based card in my sound card box so when I saw this one for 20USD I grabbed it, hopefully I can locate all the software that it originally came with.

Bonus
Bought this ATAPI Zip100 with 4 disks just Today for 50AUD, I already have one SCSI Zip100 but its pretty much useless without a second one and a few disks to copy files between machines.

Zip100.jpg

Bonus Bonus

Forgot I got this a week back a Savage 4 Pro 32mb PCI, its one of the Creative versions and itll be heading to my DOS/9x machine collection where all my PCI GPUs hide. (The one I received was still sealed in its hard shell cover which was a bonus)

Savage4 Pro.jpg

Going to use this to play around with S3TC.

I bought a lot of iomega drives over the past month and in the end only two did work 100%.
Yesterday I had to give back a unit that wasn't working correctly (issues with the head, again not r/w the second half of any disk).

I got that if the seller states "works" because it lit up and read a disk, but wasn't tested thoroughly, is not worth it.
Basically gambling.

ATAPI Zip is way faster and easy to use.

The SCSI internal zip should be pretty fast too, came with its own SCSI card, just need a disc to test it with but the system it came in it was working according to the seller. The ATAPI Zip is new never been used ...doesnt mean itll work but since its been unused hopefully it has a good chance of being ok. If not its a local sale so I can always return it, though the 4 discs are worth keeping .. for some reason the discs are expensive here unless I buy 10 of them.

I went from no Zip drives to a stack of 8 of em of all varieties and a box of disks. Its weird how things just find you some times.

Veeb0rg wrote on 2022-09-21, 11:41:

I went from no Zip drives to a stack of 8 of em of all varieties and a box of disks. Its weird how things just find you some times.

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
They walk right up to your desk!

Accumulated some parts for a new windows XP build. Finished build will be shown elsewhere in the forums.

buckeye wrote on 2022-09-21, 14:37:

Accumulated some parts for a new windows XP build. Finished build will be shown elsewhere in the forums.

Looks like you are set for heating this winter.

appiah4 wrote on 2022-09-21, 14:40:

buckeye wrote on 2022-09-21, 14:37:

Accumulated some parts for a new windows XP build. Finished build will be shown elsewhere in the forums.

Looks like you are set for heating this winter.

Fermi makes a great space heater !!

It being a 400 series fermi is just icing on the heater 😁

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-09-21, 14:50:

appiah4 wrote on 2022-09-21, 14:40:

buckeye wrote on 2022-09-21, 14:37:

Accumulated some parts for a new windows XP build. Finished build will be shown elsewhere in the forums.

Looks like you are set for heating this winter.

Fermi makes a great space heater !!

It being a 400 series fermi is just icing on the heater 😁

I happen to be "cold natured" so it's all good 😁