Thanks to a good friend I finally obtained what I considered to be unobtanium by now.
The elusive............ Miditemp DoX-1 Midi daughterboard!

Aww yeah. Got two mystery boxes today.

One is a Micron, says its broken. It has a Dallas RTC.

The other is a "custom" with MSI MS-6712 (KT4V) and still unknown CPU/AGP card. I was told it beeps. I'll find out. I know nothing about this board yet, but it looks cool - I didn't have a RED one yet.

For five bucks each, heck yeah!

Salient wrote on 2025-05-12, 17:36:

Thanks to a good friend I finally obtained what I considered to be unobtanium by now.
The elusive............ Miditemp DoX-1 Midi daughterboard!

Crazy for a midi card to be released in 2006. Well done!

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-05-12, 21:45:

Aww yeah. Got two mystery boxes today. […]
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Aww yeah. Got two mystery boxes today.

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One is a Micron, says its broken. It has a Dallas RTC.

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The other is a "custom" with MSI MS-6712 (KT4V) and still unknown CPU/AGP card. I was told it beeps. I'll find out. I know nothing about this board yet, but it looks cool - I didn't have a RED one yet.

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For five bucks each, heck yeah!

MSI MX4000 😉
https://dsmcz.com/prestashop/en/graphics-card … rce-mx4000.html

Give or take a minor version eg "mx4500"
Though the gf fx are pretty similar too.

Yeah beige box time again. Seller said there was an AX59 Pro inside, but not sure about the amount of cache.

So this one sparks joy:

Now to find that K6-III+ 450 I had somewhere... 🤔

Brand new copper S370/SocketA coolers?
I'll have 'em all please!

Tho the 7k rpm fans will never again make it into a build =)
I just cannot believe we used those back in the day.

bofh.fromhell wrote on 2025-05-13, 20:27:

Brand new copper S370/SocketA coolers? I'll have 'em all please! […]
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Brand new copper S370/SocketA coolers?
I'll have 'em all please!

Tho the 7k rpm fans will never again make it into a build =)
I just cannot believe we used those back in the day.

I bet those fans are loud as hell at full speed. What a name for that cooler too, the CAK-II. 🤣

pete8475 wrote on 2025-05-13, 21:18:

bofh.fromhell wrote on 2025-05-13, 20:27:

Brand new copper S370/SocketA coolers? I'll have 'em all please! […]
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Brand new copper S370/SocketA coolers?
I'll have 'em all please!

Tho the 7k rpm fans will never again make it into a build =)
I just cannot believe we used those back in the day.

I bet those fans are loud as hell at full speed. What a name for that cooler too, the CAK-II. 🤣

Yes they are .. like hearing a jet turbine wind up.

I grabbed two wholly different items today, one for Macs and one for PCs. One that's still got very specific use cases today, and one that is basically useless.

Yes, an External Caddy SCSI CD drive, specifically an AppleCD 300. Not even a plus, just a 300. The other is a Pentium 4 HT EXTREME Edition. Specifically it's a Gallatin 3.4GHz that uses LGA 775. I now thing I have the two best examples of the P4. You know, the Literal worst ever 1.3GHz Williamette, and the Emergency Edition. Really summarizes intel during those years.

BetaC wrote on 2025-05-14, 05:12:

I grabbed two wholly different items today, one for Macs and one for PCs. One that's still got very specific use cases today, an […]
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I grabbed two wholly different items today, one for Macs and one for PCs. One that's still got very specific use cases today, and one that is basically useless.

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Yes, an External Caddy SCSI CD drive, specifically an AppleCD 300. Not even a plus, just a 300. The other is a Pentium 4 HT EXTREME Edition. Specifically it's a Gallatin 3.4GHz that uses LGA 775. I now thing I have the two best examples of the P4. You know, the Literal worst ever 1.3GHz Williamette, and the Emergency Edition. Really summarizes intel during those years.

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I am crazy about the Gallatin P4s ... So brute force 😁

Another great scores from yours truly:

- Maxdata Artist Eton Pro MP-989 - AWARD BIOS be interesting to see when you boot a laptop. Oh, did I mention 3x SDR SO-DIMM slots? (although downside is they require smaller sticks)
- Biostar M7VIG Pro-D
- Powercolor Evilking 3 Pro C355A - Voodoo 3 3000, 5.5ns RAM!

Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing:

Looking at components on board, i would guess that it is quite old hardware, probably even mid 80s thing?

So i googled the model number and there is even an website available, unfortunately no software available to download.
https://www.eletech.com/Products/Audio_Repeat … 0_dev_tools.htm

I cant quite understand the purpose of this card, is it simply an sound recording device?

psychofox wrote on 2025-05-14, 11:42:

Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing: […]
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Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing:

Looking at components on board, i would guess that it is quite old hardware, probably even mid 80s thing?

So i googled the model number and there is even an website available, unfortunately no software available to download.
https://www.eletech.com/Products/Audio_Repeat … 0_dev_tools.htm

I cant quite understand the purpose of this card, is it simply an sound recording device?

Basically yes, but it is especially for developing sound in a certain compressed format and to be stored in EPROM.

Those EPROMs can be installed on these boards for playback, either controlled by buttons, sensors, controllers etc.

https://www.eletech.com/Products/Audio_Repeat … e/quikvoice.htm

As the page says, applications are for example

* Exhibits, displays and attractions
* Message repeaters
* Gaming, vending and amusement equipment
* Industrial controls
* Security alarms
* Elevator announcement

psychofox wrote on 2025-05-14, 11:42:

Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing: […]
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Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing:

Looking at components on board, i would guess that it is quite old hardware, probably even mid 80s thing?

So i googled the model number and there is even an website available, unfortunately no software available to download.
https://www.eletech.com/Products/Audio_Repeat … 0_dev_tools.htm

I cant quite understand the purpose of this card, is it simply an sound recording device?

Wow, that is so cool! I can't believe there is still a web page online for something like that, and you didn't even have to go to the internet archive to locate it.

They must have produced it for quite a while for it to have made it to the "website" era in the first place, but it's funny that all of the accessories shown definitely look like they're straight out of the 80s.

BetaC wrote on 2025-05-14, 05:12:

One that's still got very specific use cases today, and one that is basically useless.

I'm assuming the Pentium 4 is the useless one...

devius wrote on 2025-05-14, 17:58:

BetaC wrote on 2025-05-14, 05:12:

One that's still got very specific use cases today, and one that is basically useless.

I'm assuming the Pentium 4 is the useless one...

Yeah, heh. I can hook the SCSI drive up to my SE/30 and do a handful of things there.

psychofox wrote on 2025-05-14, 11:42:

Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing: […]
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Grabbed a bunch of retro soundcards from local listings site. Along with some quite common stuff, came an interesting thing:

Looking at components on board, i would guess that it is quite old hardware, probably even mid 80s thing?

So i googled the model number and there is even an website available, unfortunately no software available to download.
https://www.eletech.com/Products/Audio_Repeat … 0_dev_tools.htm

I cant quite understand the purpose of this card, is it simply an sound recording device?

Appears to be for recording WAV files, dates from back when recording high quality WAV files in software mode (ie. using just the CPU) was impossible.. presumably..

Yesterday, I picked up the weirdest franken-puter I ever encountered:
Mobo CPU: An AMD Athlon II x4 with 2GB of RAM
OS: Windows 8.1 with license
Case: in a beige P4 case (with badge)
HDD: 240 SSD
Extension: USB 3.0 card + USB 3.0 front bay
Floppy: a 1.44mb + 1.2mb (both working!)
Bonus: First edition of MS Office (28 disks!!!)

So this thing is gonna contribute to upgrade my 486... and one of the kids Ryzen machine that lacks USB ports and space of their darn humongous games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hmm. I was going to say that's a 486 that got upgraded, but presumably it's atx. By that era there weren't any AT mobos.
Still, it probably is that,but the case got swapped.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

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This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.