Not THAT old, but they're cheap.

Auzentech Prelude in the box, Core 2 Duo E8600 and (again) Corsair XMS2 RAM with fancy LEDs. 1GB modules instead of 2GB this time.

Today I went to buy a 50-pin SCSI cable with terminator and came out with all these. Nothing overly amazing, but some neat stuff and can't complain this haul for 20€:

Top left: ATi Radeon 9600 (XT, I think)
Down left: Gainward Dragon 4000 Voodoo Banshee
Top middle: Geforce2 MX400 PCI
Down middle: Ati Rage II+DVD PCI
Top right: The SCSI cable I went to buy!
Down right: Winbond 16-bit ISA IO card with the extra bracket and 3.5"/5.25" floppy cable.

Of these the Banshee is interesting, because it is first for me, but like with my V3 3000, I think I don't find permanent home for it on any of my setups (unlike V1 or V2 cards). GF2MX400 PCI was a nice find, I can finally make one Compaq Presario 4000(?) series early 2000s "internet PC" do something useful with this card. System has 750MHz Celeron so it has decent CPU oomph, but no AGP slot so this card should make it decent for late 90s gaming. These cards pop up rather rarely and when they do, the prices are absolutely bonkers. ATI Rage is certainly nothing amazing and that is exactly the reason this kind of card was missing from my card bin previously. I have couple of R9600 cards already, one XT needs recapping, but as this one was like couple of euro, I just couldn't leave it behind. Those ISA IO cards are always handy to have, although I probably have now something like 3 or 4 in my bin.

wow the down left looks like a Matrox G400 that it is great in its own right
but if it is a Banshee then not too shabby for $20 ... not too shabby at al !!

I bought a Compaq Proliant ML530 based off one picture, just hoping it is not just sheet metal when I collect it tomorrow...

Nunoalex wrote on 2025-04-23, 13:37:

wow the down left looks like a Matrox G400 that it is great in its own right
but if it is a Banshee then not too shabby for $20 ... not too shabby at al !!

It is banshee allright, no Matrox cards in this haul. I checked the FCC ID and google image search, there is no name tav on the PCB. I agree that for twenner that bunch is a good deal!

flupke11 wrote on 2025-04-23, 15:49:

I bought a Compaq Proliant ML530 based off one picture, just hoping it is not just sheet metal when I collect it tomorrow...

Nice, first gen? Tower or rackmount?

PD2JK wrote on 2025-04-23, 18:15:

flupke11 wrote on 2025-04-23, 15:49:

I bought a Compaq Proliant ML530 based off one picture, just hoping it is not just sheet metal when I collect it tomorrow...

Nice, first gen? Tower or rackmount?

First gen and rackmount. No idea what PIII Xeons I'll find or what disks. As far as I can make out, there are at least disks present. It will be less than a euro per kg, seen the sheer weight of that beast.

Ok, edit: 1 PIII Xeon 866/133/256, 2×128 ECC Sdram, 5 18,2 SCSI disks.

I got a Samsung Syncmaster 765MB and two dot matrix printers for free including a NEC pinwriter.

Found some interesting bits of hardware in one of the computer equipment bins at the thrift shop today:

A 16-bit ISA Acer controller card, two 8-bit ISA Ethernet NICs (NE1000 clones if I had to guess), an 8-bit ISA floppy controller, a Socket 7/370 Intel cooler, an AMD 5x86-P75, and an AMD K6-2/350AFR.
There were also a couple AGP Riva TNT cards, an Opti ISA sound card, an MGA AGP card, and a couple Trio3D PCI cards, but I didn't grab those.

The CPUs already came in the holders/cut down trays, and I'm guessing everything was already packed in ESD bags.
So this doesn't appear to be from parted out machines, but rather someone's collection or some computer shop's seriously old left over stock.

This was one of those I want one from premium-ish series card purchases. I have plenty of ti 4200-s but this is bigger and royal purple. Whoever made cooler graphics design needs to be shot however...
Made already quick OC test - with 310/300 clocks finished 3dmark 2001SE with 9500 points on VIA Apollo Pro 133T Tualatin 1.4@1.5 rig. Good since card has only Samsung 3.6ns mem chips.

vutt wrote on 2025-04-25, 14:34:

This was one of those I want one from premium-ish series card purchases. I have plenty of ti 4200-s but this is bigger and royal purple. Whoever made cooler graphics design needs to be shot however...
Made already quick OC test - with 310/300 clocks finished 3dmark 2001SE with 9500 points on VIA Apollo Pro 133T Tualatin 1.4@1.5 rig. Good since card has only Samsung 3.6ns mem chips.

Hole smokes, that is one of the most hideous heatsink designs I've ever seen... 🤣

(Nice find though!)

vutt wrote on 2025-04-25, 14:34:

This was one of those I want one from premium-ish series card purchases. I have plenty of ti 4200-s but this is bigger and royal purple. Whoever made cooler graphics design needs to be shot however...
Made already quick OC test - with 310/300 clocks finished 3dmark 2001SE with 9500 points on VIA Apollo Pro 133T Tualatin 1.4@1.5 rig. Good since card has only Samsung 3.6ns mem chips.

Good lord 🤣 ... that's a hilarious cooler. This was either on a "bring your kid to work day" or they asked the guy who designed the Mistuoka Orochi (car).

G-X wrote on 2025-04-25, 19:36:

vutt wrote on 2025-04-25, 14:34:

This was one of those I want one from premium-ish series card purchases. I have plenty of ti 4200-s but this is bigger and royal purple. Whoever made cooler graphics design needs to be shot however...
Made already quick OC test - with 310/300 clocks finished 3dmark 2001SE with 9500 points on VIA Apollo Pro 133T Tualatin 1.4@1.5 rig. Good since card has only Samsung 3.6ns mem chips.

Good lord 🤣 ... that's a hilarious cooler. This was either on a "bring your kid to work day" or they asked the guy who designed the Mistuoka Orochi (car).

Maybe it was the same guy (or his kid) that designed this box art for Trident a few years prior.

A few interesting score:

- another K7M! The one I got prior has a defective primary IDE channel.
- MSI K7N2G-ILSR - needs some repairs as KB doesn't work it seems, but otherwise it's a nice version of the K7N2 Delta-ILSR I have, IIRC the IGP on this one is a GF4 MX.
- Soyo SY-5EMM - unfortunately dead.

Got a SC-55 for only $50... Don't what's going on these days, but the universe won't stop sending me these deals... I need a break now!

I bought a couple of Geforce 256 SDRs

Had to use a hair dryer to remove the heatsinks. Almost had a heart attack after seeing the crispy-colored thermal material (or maybe they are supposed to look that way?). Thankfully they still work fine. I test fitted a Logisys clone of the ZM80-HP. It fits fine, I will clean both cards and upgrade both to use the heatsinks since I have about a dozen of these clones.

Linoleum wrote on 2025-04-26, 02:19:

Got a SC-55 for only $50... Don't what's going on these days, but the universe won't stop sending me these deals... I need a break now!

nice! I keep u-turning about buying these Rolands. Because if I buy one, then I will need the whole collection.

clownwolf wrote on 2025-04-26, 04:20:

I bought a couple of Geforce 256 SDRs

Had to use a hair dryer to remove the heatsinks. Almost had a heart attack after seeing the crispy-colored thermal material (or maybe they are supposed to look that way?). Thankfully they still work fine. I test fitted a Logisys clone of the ZM80-HP. It fits fine, I will clean both cards and upgrade both to use the heatsinks since I have about a dozen of these clones.

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Its Thermal Epoxy and doesn't need to be replaced, nVidia and others used this stuff till the Geforce FX, its a bitch to remove. The only cards I would reccomend doing this to are Voodoo 5500 and Geforce 4 both of which came with woefully inadequate cooling.

Personally I leave it alone as its not like thermal paste and doesnt degrade over time, you run a huge risk damaging the core trying to remove the coolers and the epoxy after. (or breaking the fragile BGA solder balls which are getting more fragile with time)

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-26, 06:17:

Its Thermal Epoxy and doesn't need to be replaced, nVidia and others used this stuff till the Geforce FX, its a bitch to remove. The only cards I would reccomend doing this to are Voodoo 5500 and Geforce 4 both of which came with woefully inadequate cooling.

Personally I leave it alone as its not like thermal paste and doesnt degrade over time, you run a huge risk damaging the core trying to remove the coolers and the epoxy after. (or breaking the fragile BGA solder balls which are getting more fragile with time)

If I had a chance to do it again, I would definitely just leave the stock heatsinks on. Its only because I havent encountered epoxy yet that I went ahead with it for both cards. I thought it was just super ancient thermal gunk.

I guess it depends on brand & model as well. Asus GeForce 2 GTS and GeForce 3 TI 200 were pretty easy to remove, they used regular pads so barely any force to twist off. STB Voodoo 3 was also non-epoxied, but I remember it requiring some force to twist off, so that one is 50-50 on if cooler gets replaced.

National holiday with a lot of flea markets here and there. Found this for 2 EUR. Hope it works. VGA connector needs some attention.

Edit; looks like it's working correctly, about 20 fps in Forsaken at 768p. 😁

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-26, 06:17:

clownwolf wrote on 2025-04-26, 04:20:

I bought a couple of Geforce 256 SDRs

Had to use a hair dryer to remove the heatsinks. Almost had a heart attack after seeing the crispy-colored thermal material (or maybe they are supposed to look that way?). Thankfully they still work fine. I test fitted a Logisys clone of the ZM80-HP. It fits fine, I will clean both cards and upgrade both to use the heatsinks since I have about a dozen of these clones.

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Its Thermal Epoxy and doesn't need to be replaced, nVidia and others used this stuff till the Geforce FX, its a bitch to remove. The only cards I would reccomend doing this to are Voodoo 5500 and Geforce 4 both of which came with woefully inadequate cooling.

Personally I leave it alone as its not like thermal paste and doesnt degrade over time, you run a huge risk damaging the core trying to remove the coolers and the epoxy after. (or breaking the fragile BGA solder balls which are getting more fragile with time)

Don't even try it on a GF4, at least not the Ti4400 and higher. I've personally tried to unglue one myself and ripped the chip entirely. I still bash myself for that. It was a Quadro4 900 XGL.