Small haul at couch change pricing today. HD2400Pro PCIe, Matrox G450 AGP, NEC USB, VIA USB, yet another box of RAM... which the only "paydirt" it seems to have at first look is a 512MB PC-133 module. However, there's a pair of 16MB EDO notebook modules, which I am not sure if semi standard or proprietary at the moment and whether I can use them. Given difficulty of upgrading 486/early Pent laptops though, if they're useful they'll be a good score. Otherwise, seems to be a lot of smaller DDR and DDR2.
Nice to get a decent NEC chip USB card which are supposed to play nice with vintager PCI systems, I've got a whole mess of those VIA ones now, might be ending up stealing ports off them to fix onboard etc. G450 is a nice find, I think I have a matrox hiding from me somewhere, but only thought it was a G200 or so, I'd only be happier if it was PCI not AGP... however, should go nice in a win98 system. The HD2400Pro I can't currently think of a good use case for... although I've got a stupid stupid Dell box that doesn't like much, so maybe another chance for that to get something mildly warm.
Also a couple more HDD, WD Mybook externals, supposed to be Terabyte plus, might pull the drives to use internal. I still can't pass up cheap terabytes...
Oh actually, just peeking again now, there's some fast 400mhz/pc3200 512MB DDRs, they may come handy for winding out some Tbred/socket A stuff allll the way.
edit: drawing a blank on what this small module 16MB EDO is for, or what standard it fits, looks very close in format to the 72 pin "SODIMM" (Not sure it's really a SODIMM or retroactively applied) except this seems to have 84 pins on not 72... however, that could be 3 extra pins on each edge, x2, meaning it's sorta 72 pin but has some extra timing or PD connections. ... actually I'm just assuming it's EDO, could be FPM... Think my MMX tosh and thinkpad are both "new" enough to take the notched SODIMM. And my 486-33 Contura is old enough to take proprietary pinned modules.
Checked the ext hdd, one is an Ezgo or something seagate, not a mybook, looked similar, anywho, 2.7 TB space showing on disk management for the mybook, and the seagate showing 1.8TB .. think I'm doing media backup on the mybook and a bunch of hdd images on the ezgo thing... then I can feel happy about having my ass covered and be able to use some other disks again. Or at least not have to worry about storage for a bit until my TV snarfer is going and has snarfed 3TB or so.
editII: so the HD2400pro is a POS really, but so is the Optiplex 320, has gfx shadow mapping issues, and PCIe 1, but seems more like 0.98beta .. but I'm seeing now, Dell officially supported it's HD2400pro card on the 320, yay, it does get an upgrade from the x600 or whatever the even crappier thing I managed to get working for the sole purpose of claiming back shared gfx RAM off the onboard. No real killer app here, but might turn the 320 into early-mid XP box, maybe the quiet one you can RTS on for ages, not the loud one that gets FPS up the wazoo. IDK, maybe I just invent niches for these POS
edit the third: note to self warmest I'm getting for that 16MB module is Compaq Armada 4100 series, some kingston modules looking close KTC-A4100
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.