BitWrangler wrote on 2022-10-14, 02:02:

a couple of 500GB cheetah SATA drives,

So much for the theory about posting wrong technical stuff on t3h interwebs and having a thousand ppl correct you.... So I was hunting up info and cheetahs are SCSI drives aren't they??? (Pic of item on site is generic pic I think)

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-10-14, 15:07:

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-10-14, 02:02:

a couple of 500GB cheetah SATA drives,

So much for the theory about posting wrong technical stuff on t3h interwebs and having a thousand ppl correct you.... So I was hunting up info and cheetahs are SCSI drives aren't they??? (Pic of item on site is generic pic I think)

Might be SAS versions too.

Bought this broken Compaq Armada 7770DT laptop from local recycling center. It is in a sorry state, the screen is broken, the plastics also broke in various places, the hinges are stiff, delete key cap aso broken, hard drive missing due to data security laws most likely. But it seems to work at least. Looks like some Pentium MMX and has 64Megs of EDO RAM. Since it has all the ports in the back, it might just become a sort of Comodore/Amiga style PC 😄

If the LVDS connector is anything like my Armada E500 (a small 20-ish or so pins) and the CCFL inverter isn't something funky, you could replace the screen. My Armada E500 had suffered nasty and horrifyingly stinky burn marks from sitting over the span of a year (and in a dark place no less, so no sunlight involved), and I managed to find a new display for it (although ever so slightly bigger that it won't screw in on the old hinges) that had the same LVDS connector.

Yes, that might be done, but I'll have to open it first and check what kind of screen it has. It's not that easy to find replacements for laptops this old, but of course, possible. The hinges also feel way to tight and the whole thing might just fall apart due to cracks... So yeah, will see.

Some new toys:

Uncommon late VLB VGA with Alliance Promotion chipset:

Yet another fine VLB card (#9 GXE):

And also Shuttle HOT-539 motherboard which is not only one of the very few Pentium motherboards with UMC 8890AF chipset, the one that can take 2MB of L2 cache, but also the exact model I was running as a teenager back in 90s. I was so lucky to have Pentium 75 in 1995.

promise ultra100 tx2
Intel pro 1000 gt pci

This fake Intel SL283 (supposedly a Pentium 233MMX) with a Zida TX98-3D motherboard.

OMORES wrote on 2022-10-16, 10:06:

This fake Intel SL283 (supposedly a Pentium 233MMX) with a Zida TX98-3D motherboard.

So this is a MMX 166 which has been overclocked to 233?

Quick question, Anyone have a good suggestion for a GeForce 4 Ti equivalent in PCI ? (Needs shaders)

I Have a FX5500 and a X1300 both in PCI but neither feels right for a dual Tualatin board. (Board doesn’t have AGP or PCI-X)

The X1300 might be closest in power to a Ti card and the 5500 is uhh pretty terrible.

What stops the X1300 feeling right? Because you just have to go later to get faster, which means XP only. 9400GT is alright for a PCI card, as long as you are expecting 7600 performance out of it, not 9600GT. There is one "good" radeon 9200 with 128bit RAM, which might be said to be equiv to a 4200ti in some stuff. If you are wanting 4600 juice though, it's upwards of that... if you want downward compatibility, then it's that FX5500 and slower.

edit: holy crap, seems later cards that you can actually verify have regular PCI are over a hundred bucks now. Lots of PCIe and AGP miscategorised though, but hopefully that means you'll catch someone listing at their prices rather than the crazy prices.

Two more scores for today - another (!!) GForce 4 Ti4200 128MB (not sure but might be a Dell OEM card?) and a Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090.

The only issues found was three missing caps on the backside of the GF4 Ti 4200, which I managed to solder back with caps scavenged from a dead MXM-format 9600M GT.

RaiderOfLostVoodoo wrote on 2022-10-16, 11:31:

OMORES wrote on 2022-10-16, 10:06:

This fake Intel SL283 (supposedly a Pentium 233MMX) with a Zida TX98-3D motherboard.

So this is a MMX 166 which has been overclocked to 233?

Sort of... Most repainted Pentium CPUs were not MMX.

Anyways the board works and it's jumperless, I can set the CPU to 233Mhz, but I guess it's not stable.

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-10-16, 14:03:

What stops the X1300 feeling right? Because you just have to go later to get faster, which means XP only. 9400GT is alright for a PCI card, as long as you are expecting 7600 performance out of it, not 9600GT. There is one "good" radeon 9200 with 128bit RAM, which might be said to be equiv to a 4200ti in some stuff. If you are wanting 4600 juice though, it's upwards of that... if you want downward compatibility, then it's that FX5500 and slower.

edit: holy crap, seems later cards that you can actually verify have regular PCI are over a hundred bucks now. Lots of PCIe and AGP miscategorised though, but hopefully that means you'll catch someone listing at their prices rather than the crazy prices.

Yup, prices for pci cards are crazy.

Wanted a GT430 PCI but not at 200 USD 🤣.

There's a new Value Village at my end of the city, so I got 2 90s amplified speakers, a serial mouse, and a 17 inch monitor. I wish they'd supply the whole computer that mouse came with...

Got this lovely boxed Epson CGA graphics card. It features a composite output, which makes curious to see how composite mode games compared to normal CGA output.

Jed118 wrote on 2022-10-16, 15:23:

There's a new Value Village at my end of the city, so I got 2 90s amplified speakers, a serial mouse, and a 17 inch monitor. I wish they'd supply the whole computer that mouse came with...

Relatable, I found a Micron branded keyboard the other day at the thrift store but I'd much rather find the computer...I've been looking for a Micron Pentium MMX tower for a couple years and I keep coming up empty handed.

For a Pentium II build I'm doing.

Waiting for the other components to arrive.

Jed118 wrote on 2022-10-16, 15:23:

There's a new Value Village at my end of the city, so I got 2 90s amplified speakers, a serial mouse, and a 17 inch monitor. I wish they'd supply the whole computer that mouse came with...

Oh hey Jed. 😉

mpe wrote on 2022-10-15, 15:44:

Yet another fine VLB card (#9 GXE): […]
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Yet another fine VLB card (#9 GXE):

She's super fine. I had a GXE64 Pro VLB when I was a kid, and really want another one. Really great cards and very cool looking.