PcBytes wrote on 2025-07-16, 18:17:

myne wrote on 2025-07-16, 17:05:

PcBytes wrote on 2025-07-16, 12:58:

Thanks! I got it to work with a mild 365*C reflow on the southbridge. No preheating as I don't have one nor the means to get/DIY one.

Nice! All good now?

Pre heating is recommended because spot heat can warp a board pretty severely. I tried to replace an lga socket once without one and the board bowed easily 3cm

Yeah, all is working now. Tested IDE ports as well to make sure they both register, and they do. Will install 98 or 2k with a GF256 and see what scores do I get 🤣.

I didn't get any warping. Not sure but maybe the nozzle size helped?

Probably other rigid things like isa/pci slots held it.

Found some cheap goodies from Wallapop.

A nice Texas instruments TX486DLC/E @ 40mhz for the low price of 6€ (seller's photo):

Next, a PCchips M326 V5.2, a very late 386 DX motherboard. The date on the stickers puts it in October 1994. Had the obligatory "varta" plague, but , not being a true Varta it did minimal damage. Couldn't resist the temptation @35€, a somewhat reasonable price for a speedy 386 MB.

At last a key pad for my Zx Spectrum 128K that I was still missing in my collection, a bit on the expensive @30€, but they are hard to find:

Well, not bought today but rather arrived.

Interesting times ahead.. anybody wants to go to Venice?

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-07-18, 15:38:

Interesting times ahead.. anybody wants to go to Venice?

Well, sometimes I still feel the urge for the 3.0 shaders, but was told by some good Vogons ppl to stay away - too hot and picky 😉

Halofiber86 wrote on 2025-07-18, 19:01:

tehsiggi wrote on 2025-07-18, 15:38:

Interesting times ahead.. anybody wants to go to Venice?

Well, sometimes I still feel the urge for the 3.0 shaders, but was told by some good Vogons ppl to stay away - too hot and picky 😉

My goal is to sail where nobody ever went before with that. We'll see how that works out 😁

Bought one of the last Zalman VF900 coolers that are available online in new condition. They've drastically improved the temperature on my GeForce 7900gt card. The temp was normally around 61 degrees on idle but with the new aftermarket cooler, it went down to 42 degrees at idle. Was the best decision I've ever made considering that you can't find it anywhere else. There were two listings of it on ebay and ONLY on ebay.

Another bit of fairy dust acquired :DD So excited for this beauty to arrive.

This is a MSI K8N MASTER2-FAR dual socket 940 motherboard. I have two Opteron 285s ready for it, just have to get some DDR ECC memory. It's rare enough for a 940 mobo to have PCIE support, this is even SLI capable. One of the rare crossbreeds between server and HEDT. Plus it can run 12GB of DDR memory and is complete with the original packaging and (hopefully) two coolers.

The Asrock 775i65PE from ebay arrived late last night and it's working nicely.

I currently have a P4 661 in it overclocked to about 4.2GHZ, I'm using a Coolermaster Hyper 212 for cooling that was just sitting around. Had to move things out of one of my beloved Enlight cases into a Deer brand beige case due to the height of the CPU cooler.

Still waiting for the D0 P4 651 processors to show up, I'm hoping one of the two will run stable with a 1066 FSB in here.