Kahenraz wrote on 2024-12-25, 04:31:

Cypher321 wrote on 2024-12-25, 03:27:

Came to find out the second board was an ABIT KT7A-Raid! The boards finally arrived yesterday and are sitting on my workbench for inspection. Super excited to have this board and I'm thinking I'm going to make this into a system as my main win98 machine so my beloved CUV266 gets a rest.

I sell replacement capacitor kits for these on eBay. Someone just bought a kit the other day. Curious if it was you, since I spotted your post.

Nope, wasn't me but feel free to PM me your store. Always happy to support a small business.

Cypher321 wrote on 2024-12-25, 03:27:

While perusing for socket 478 motherboards on sleazeBay, I found a lot of two mobos that came with boxes and accessories. While the first board of the lot matched the box (MSI PT880 Neo), the second had the wrong look for the era that prompted a closer inspection. Came to find out the second board was an ABIT KT7A-Raid! The boards finally arrived yesterday and are sitting on my workbench for inspection. Super excited to have this board and I'm thinking I'm going to make this into a system as my main win98 machine so my beloved CUV266 gets a rest.

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I had the KT7, KT7-Raid, KT7A and KT7A-Raid boards back in the day. Not sure how I ended up with all 4 of the versions but they were pretty popular for Overclocking those t-birds back then. I still have one or two of em around here somewhere.

Bought these rarish PCMCIA cards. Panasonic CF-JTV101 - a TV tuner and a Noteworthy PC Card Digital Camera - a clone of Canon PowerShot30. Not to be confused with Canon CE300 that works only with PC110 palmtop. Noteworthy/PS30 have normal Windows drivers. My understanding is that all these cameras were made by Toshiba actually.
Drivers for these cards can be found on my page here https://archive.org/details/@seadude66

Just picked up this GeForce 2 GTS from eBay (seller's picture). I have one in my Pentium III build, but this one looks better, and the price was decent: $34 shipped, the same amount I paid for my current one. I starting playing a lot of PC games in 1999, so I'm kind of a sucker for the GeForce 2 <GTS|Pro|Ultra> series.

Not sure where it's going to go. Might have to put together another build for it...

nfraser01 wrote on 2024-12-04, 10:13:

Saw this old PC on eBay and one photo caught my eye. Managed to make a winning bid. Not yet received but hope it's working 😀

Confirmed it is a 12MB Voodoo2 and it lives!

After being in limbo for over a month due to Canada Post strike, the Dallas modules I grabbed off fleabay finally made an appearance. I went for not the super cheapest Chinese seller, but the one in that vicinity, that had a picture of recent datecode modules, and had >99% feedback on many sales. So the whole bunch shipped cost me about what one guaranteed shiny newest new official supplier module would cost from US/Can distributor. They had new in the description but noticed one or two people claiming used in feedback. I seemed to get quite a mix of dates, but none too super old, 2006 seems oldest, 2016 newest. They look real clean, not scuffed up, neither do they look painted and remarked. There is some chance it is NOS of varying ages. At a guess from the dates, I'd say half have 5 years life in them at least.

Anyway, I wanted a rolling spare stock of modules so I could have some ready to go and mod ones that came out to replenish spares. However, now I dug out the datasheet I'm thinking I'm a maroon for not just getting 12c885s if I'm gonna battery many of them anyway.

Still gotta dig out best way of testing and then putting them "to sleep" again.

Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and mainboards. I took a good look at the pictures and 4 cards caught my eye (also the fact every card was AGP). It was a 2hr drive to pick up but it just looked like the deal of the decade if i could get it for cheap. So i went a bit "high" with my opening bid because i wanted to seal the deal quickly. Offered the guy $100 and to my surprise he said "i accept your offer. When do you want to pick it up?"

I was however a bit scared of the sheer amount of hardware and how these would have been stored ... i didn't get my hopes up too much and just figured they were probably all thrown in a box. When i went to pick it up the guy had stacked it in boxes in layers with newspapers in between (so he took care to box them somewhat properly). He said his son collected this stuff but after moving left this part behind (apparently he kept all the really good stuff). Anyway i set sail for home and when i got back i had to check the 2-4 cards i really hoped would work. Aaaaand you guessed it ... both FX5950 (1 is an ultra) are as dead as a doornail and the fans sound like a washing machine running with aluminum cans in it. The 2 Radeons i saw in the pics and i was really hoping were 9700pro cards ended up being 9500 cards ... one of which is recognised by GPU-Z as a 9500/9700 the other a 9500pro. One card is acting up ..the other seemingly okay.

All in all 36 GPU's , 19 Soundblasters and 14 mainboards. Even if half is junk i still think made a deal for a hundred bucks. My pics below (not from the ad).

I don't think i will ever come across a haul like this anymore. Just a shame that the 2 most interesting cards are dead. If there is any card except the FX5950's and Radeon 9500's that stand out or are somewhat rare just let me know. I know one or two things about older cards but i don't know everything.

Now i have no idea what to do with this lot ... i really have gotten "down with the sickness" of collecting retro hardware and every time i buy stuff i wonder why the fuck i keep doing this -_-

Forgot to put these 6 in the first pic

G-X wrote on 2024-12-29, 16:07:

Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and m […]
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Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and mainboards. I took a good look at the pictures and 4 cards caught my eye (also the fact every card was AGP). It was a 2hr drive to pick up but it just looked like the deal of the decade if i could get it for cheap. So i went a bit "high" with my opening bid because i wanted to seal the deal quickly. Offered the guy $100 and to my surprise he said "i accept your offer. When do you want to pick it up?"

I was however a bit scared of the sheer amount of hardware and how these would have been stored ... i didn't get my hopes up too much and just figured they were probably all thrown in a box. When i went to pick it up the guy had stacked it in boxes in layers with newspapers in between (so he took care to box them somewhat properly). He said his son collected this stuff but after moving left this part behind (apparently he kept all the really good stuff). Anyway i set sail for home and when i got back i had to check the 2-4 cards i really hoped would work. Aaaaand you guessed it ... both FX5950 (1 is an ultra) are as dead as a doornail and the fans sound like a washing machine running with aluminum cans in it. The 2 Radeons i saw in the pics and i was really hoping were 9700pro cards ended up being 9500 cards ... one of which is recognised by GPU-Z as a 9500/9700 the other a 9500pro. One card is acting up ..the other seemingly okay.

All in all 36 GPU's , 19 Soundblasters and 14 mainboards. Even if half is junk i still think made a deal for a hundred bucks. My pics below (not from the ad).

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I don't think i will ever come across a haul like this anymore. Just a shame that the 2 most interesting cards are dead. If there is any card except the FX5950's and Radeon 9500's that stand out or are somewhat rare just let me know. I know one or two things about older cards but i don't know everything.

Now i have no idea what to do with this lot ... i really have gotten "down with the sickness" of collecting retro hardware and every time i buy stuff i wonder why the fuck i keep doing this -_-

Woohoo, what a haul. At todays prices, 5 working middle of the road cards is $100 worth. Looking at GPU, top left, first column first card, looks a bit Geforce DDR or GF2GTS ish.. then 3rd column 3rd down looks a bit like a Voodoo Banshee. Motherboards all look a bit P4-ish.

G-X wrote on 2024-12-29, 16:07:

Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and m […]
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Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and mainboards. I took a good look at the pictures and 4 cards caught my eye (also the fact every card was AGP). It was a 2hr drive to pick up but it just looked like the deal of the decade if i could get it for cheap. So i went a bit "high" with my opening bid because i wanted to seal the deal quickly. Offered the guy $100 and to my surprise he said "i accept your offer. When do you want to pick it up?"

I was however a bit scared of the sheer amount of hardware and how these would have been stored ... i didn't get my hopes up too much and just figured they were probably all thrown in a box. When i went to pick it up the guy had stacked it in boxes in layers with newspapers in between (so he took care to box them somewhat properly). He said his son collected this stuff but after moving left this part behind (apparently he kept all the really good stuff). Anyway i set sail for home and when i got back i had to check the 2-4 cards i really hoped would work. Aaaaand you guessed it ... both FX5950 (1 is an ultra) are as dead as a doornail and the fans sound like a washing machine running with aluminum cans in it. The 2 Radeons i saw in the pics and i was really hoping were 9700pro cards ended up being 9500 cards ... one of which is recognised by GPU-Z as a 9500/9700 the other a 9500pro. One card is acting up ..the other seemingly okay.

All in all 36 GPU's , 19 Soundblasters and 14 mainboards. Even if half is junk i still think made a deal for a hundred bucks. My pics below (not from the ad).

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I don't think i will ever come across a haul like this anymore. Just a shame that the 2 most interesting cards are dead. If there is any card except the FX5950's and Radeon 9500's that stand out or are somewhat rare just let me know. I know one or two things about older cards but i don't know everything.

Now i have no idea what to do with this lot ... i really have gotten "down with the sickness" of collecting retro hardware and every time i buy stuff i wonder why the fuck i keep doing this -_-

That's a lot of Jazz for 100$!! Make sure you test that FX 5900 128MB and FX 5950 Ulta, in at least two computers and give them a good scrub before calling them dead!
You'd be surprised how many cards I get to boot after swapping them into 2 or 3 different test rigs. 😁

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-12-29, 18:15:

Woohoo, what a haul. At todays prices, 5 working middle of the road cards is $100 worth. Looking at GPU, top left, first column first card, looks a bit Geforce DDR or GF2GTS ish.. then 3rd column 3rd down looks a bit like a Voodoo Banshee. Motherboards all look a bit P4-ish.

Indeed i am happy i snagged it! The card indeed appears to be a Geforce 2. Had a look on the back and it said NV15 32MB ... have yet to figure out what model but Techpowerup shows only 2 32mb variants and these being the GTS and GTS pro. Don't know much (if anything) about this era Geforce .. All cards i had were Radeons up untill the PCI-E era.

The other card i have yet to inspect. Also forgot to mention the seller included a whole heap of I/O shields (hopefully the correct ones) and stock coolers for S775 and S939.

The mainboards include alot of S775, one S478, one S754, few S939, one S370 etc. The one that interests me the most is the Gigabyte S478 board ... will be looking into that for sure. The top 6 boards are all the same but a few have damaged LGA unfortunately ... these would make for neat mini ATX systems paired with a cheap PCI-E card and a Core 2 duo CPU!

EDIT: The S478 board is this one https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-8IPE1000-rev-1x#ov there seems to be a PRO version of this aswell .. i have the non pro edition. Don't know how good this board is though ... seems not so much performance oriented.

The INTEL S370 board predates my first actual home built pc so i don't have anything to actually put on that board. Kind of looks like this one https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel- … 15eea2-easton-2 first time i've had a board with Universal AGP port on it. Don't reckon these boards are very desireable? Looks like something you'd find prebuilts like Compaq and FujitsuSiemens pc's back in the day.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-12-29, 18:17:

That's a lot of Jazz for 100$!! Make sure you test that FX 5900 128MB and FX 5950 Ulta, in at least two computers and give them a good scrub before calling them dead!
You'd be surprised how many cards I get to boot after swapping them into 2 or 3 different test rigs. 😁

Sure is! The cards look quite decent overall (hardly any dust except on the fans. But before going for a clean i will test them out on several systems like you said. Here hoping it will spring back to life like the X850XT-PE i got for free recently .. also suddenly came back to life after several attempts!

G-X wrote on 2024-12-29, 16:07:

If there is any card except the FX5950's and Radeon 9500's that stand out or are somewhat rare just let me know. I know one or two things about older cards but i don't know everything.

That Quadro FX 4000 (next to the 5950 Ultra) is basically a Geforce 6800 Ultra with some pipelines disabled. Notice how it has two power connectors and the same PCB layout as the Ultra. You can easily use Rivatuner to set it to 16 active pixel shaders and then use the strap overrides to have it detected by the driver as a 6800 Ultra (similar to this guide)... from there it's just a matter of testing whether it is stable (it may not be). Keep in mind, the cooler is a lot weaker than the Ultra's but it's still worth a shot, maybe with some extra airflow around it. Just keep an eye on the temps.

By doing that you'll have one of the fastest AGP cards that will work in most boards and even in Win 9x, since it doesn't have one of the problematic PCI-E - AGP bridge chips.

Those 5950 Ultras may be fixable... they very often have some of the tiny components chipped off of them since the cards are so heavy and tend to have gotten tossed into a box of cards at least once in their life.

Lots of decent cards there though! FX 5200 and 5500 AGP cards are nice to have to beef up a system from the late 90s, especially if the cards have 128bit memory.

The Geforce2 GTS (top left card in the first picture) is now worth basically half what you paid for the whole lot and is a great card too.

There's a lot more there too. Depending how much time and energy you want to invest into it and how many are working, you've got a lot worth easily 5-10 times what you spent. You could also set up a really fast AGP system (Athlon 64 or Core 2 Duo) and do a massive benchmark spree to compare a ton of different cards from the early 2000s. 😀

G-X wrote on 2024-12-29, 16:07:

Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and m […]
Show full quote

Was browsing the classifieds when coming up to this ad for "computer parts" with a few pictures of a large amount of cards and mainboards. I took a good look at the pictures and 4 cards caught my eye (also the fact every card was AGP). It was a 2hr drive to pick up but it just looked like the deal of the decade if i could get it for cheap. So i went a bit "high" with my opening bid because i wanted to seal the deal quickly. Offered the guy $100 and to my surprise he said "i accept your offer. When do you want to pick it up?"

I was however a bit scared of the sheer amount of hardware and how these would have been stored ... i didn't get my hopes up too much and just figured they were probably all thrown in a box. When i went to pick it up the guy had stacked it in boxes in layers with newspapers in between (so he took care to box them somewhat properly). He said his son collected this stuff but after moving left this part behind (apparently he kept all the really good stuff). Anyway i set sail for home and when i got back i had to check the 2-4 cards i really hoped would work. Aaaaand you guessed it ... both FX5950 (1 is an ultra) are as dead as a doornail and the fans sound like a washing machine running with aluminum cans in it. The 2 Radeons i saw in the pics and i was really hoping were 9700pro cards ended up being 9500 cards ... one of which is recognised by GPU-Z as a 9500/9700 the other a 9500pro. One card is acting up ..the other seemingly okay.

All in all 36 GPU's , 19 Soundblasters and 14 mainboards. Even if half is junk i still think made a deal for a hundred bucks. My pics below (not from the ad).

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I don't think i will ever come across a haul like this anymore. Just a shame that the 2 most interesting cards are dead. If there is any card except the FX5950's and Radeon 9500's that stand out or are somewhat rare just let me know. I know one or two things about older cards but i don't know everything.

Now i have no idea what to do with this lot ... i really have gotten "down with the sickness" of collecting retro hardware and every time i buy stuff i wonder why the fuck i keep doing this -_-

I believe this red circled one, is a GeForce 2 Ti. Which is kinda neat. 😀 Not 100% certain though.

Looks like theres some gf4 ti also..

Here is my "I got what I want for Christmas" shopping 😁, from the bay. All at great Prices, quite a steal for some of them

ATI Radeon 8500 128MB version
Asus GeForce 3 Ti 500 Pure
Nvidia PNY FX 5700 Ultra
Herc GeForce GTS 64MB "OC/Ultra"

They are all in great condition, just needed a little cleaning / fan oil and off to the races! Very excited to get them all in the collection.
Especially the GF2 GTS 64MB, Surprisingly enough this is the second to last Nvidia GPU I need for my collection. ( Still looking for a Regular GeForce FX 5800 ).

This Hercules GTS is kind of special as in, it is Factory overclocked!! I don't think there was many factory OC editions for the GeForce 2 GTS, since any memory overclocking would put you in Pro or Ti range.
The card has some very interesting clock speeds, So a stock GTS is a 200Core/ 166Mem, this Herc GTS "ultra", 220Mhz Core and 183 Mem. It benches almost 10% faster than a regular GTS.

I picked this GTS in particular as already had its older brother as well the GF2 Ultra in Blue. Yummy.

pitchshifter wrote on 2024-12-30, 00:57:

Looks like theres some gf4 ti also..

Hmm... not seeing any of those myself.

There are several Radeon 9550s and a Sapphire 9600 Pro though. I think the Asus card closest to the 5950s is an FX 5700 or 5700VE, with the next card after that being a FX 5600.

I'm sure all the fans are shot, but if you can disassemble the fan completely (with the shaft out of the housing) you might be able to clean and oil the bearings so that they are usable, if they are sleeve bearings at least. If they are ball bearing fans they are probably junk unless the bearings are removable too.

G-X wrote on 2024-12-29, 16:07:

Thats a lot of stuff! I see high end Geforces and Radeons! There's no way they are all dead!

Let's see how much headroom this coppermine Celeron 1100 SL5XU has. Hopefully 133 MHz stable.

I thought I had finished buying motherboards, at least for this year, but I was wrong, I usually buy cheap cards to fix easily, this time instead they proposed me a very old motherboard, which according to the seller is working, in the images it shows a BIOS screen, and although it already has a 286 16 MHz, I thought that this a 286 12 MHz, it would be just as interesting 🧐, for now I go looking for more information 🔍 for more information, brand i.e. model etc... but later, if it works without problems, I would like to make a small addition, an 80287 coprocessor, 8 MHz, they usually work at 2/3 of the 80286 CPU, except the 80287XL that goes to the same frequency, but choosing one of the two, in the end it will only be a matter of cost 💲, and the 80287XL that I know are quite expensive, so I think I'll choose the cheapest one, except that the difference is little, besides I don't know if I would use it, I think the programs that require its presence are few, if there was a list of DOS programs that work only with the FPU installed, it would be very interesting 🧐, some programs I remember that work even without, or alternatively with emulators, even if very slowly, in short as I said before, even if in reality I don't know if it will ever be used, I would like to add it.

PC@LIVE wrote on 2024-12-30, 09:03:

...and although it already has a 286 16 MHz, I thought that this a 286 12 MHz....

Indeed interesting. I also see a DIP switch block between the 25MHz crystal and the CPU.
Usually the CPU speed is half the oscillator frequency, however I have seen 48MHz crystals being used for 12MHz CPU's, then the frequency is divided by four I guess.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.