Snagged a PCI Creative Blaster Banshee today for a super reasonable price, it wasn't listed in with the other 3DFX Banshee cards so I got pretty lucky. Its no Voodoo3 but I do like the PCI based Banshee as it makes a great little card for Socket 7 boards that don't have AGP and cant run a PCI Voodoo3 due to the known voltage issue, it has really great DOS compatibility too which makes it an even better fit for a Socket 7 DOS/Windows build.
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Also bought a totally not a K5 AMD5k86-P75 which is one of the early AMD K5 CPUs with its branch prediction disabled, didn't buy it to put into a system but rather to have this odd little CPU in the collection. I'm pretty curious to see how it stacks up against a AM5x86-P75 which is their turbo charged 486. In theory it should smack the 486 but without branch prediction and a lower clock speed the 486 might match or beat it at tests.
Im super curious to find out and will have a Pentium-75 in the tests along with the AM5x86 to see how the K5 fairs against a CPU that should be its competitor.
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Edit - Also bought a bunch of spares for my Compaq Armada 1750, so when they arrive the 1750 will be back in mint condition again. Also going to start to crazy task of restoring the HDD back to factory, for some reason the previous owner put Win98 FE on it and while it does work I'm almost sure the BIOS partition got nixed when they did it as I have not found a way to get into the BIOS. Win98 FE is an abomination that shouldn't ever be put onto any system except for shits and giggles and trying to get it to play nice is an experience in patience and pulling the power cord.
So ill be exercising the well known maneuver of Nuke and Pave as I have the original Win95 OSR2 restore CD along with the diagnostics and system restore disks which can restore the BIOS partition.