Found the rare PCI Nvidia Quadro FX600, £20 on ebay! Very awesome and next best thing to a 5600 PCI.

@AaronS nice, can you post some pictures of it?

It's not in my hands yet but heres the pictures from the seller
https://imgur.com/a/FMdeu2n

Probably better to ask this in another thread but would it be possible to swap a AGP FX5600 heatsink onto this for better cooling? Its only PCI but I have a dead FX5600 similar to this one also by ASUS, so it would be put to good use.

I thought I bought a P36 GEforce 2 MX 400 for $10 --> https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/msi-ms-8826-ver-2-0

Instead I received a motherboard box labeled H61M-P21. Hmmm. Curious. But we are not done.

Inside that box was a purple ECS 741gx-m with a 1100 Mhz Duron and 768MB of DDR memory --> https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-741gx-m

Nice. It's clean and has a heat sink. Was that a net win?

I wish it was Universal AGP instead of 1.5V AGP.

douglar wrote on 2025-09-12, 00:15:

I thought I bought a P36 GEforce 2 MX 400 for $10 --> https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/msi-ms-8826-ver-2-0 […]
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I thought I bought a P36 GEforce 2 MX 400 for $10 --> https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/msi-ms-8826-ver-2-0

Instead I received a motherboard box labeled H61M-P21. Hmmm. Curious. But we are not done.

Inside that box was a purple ECS 741gx-m with a 1100 Mhz Duron and 768MB of DDR memory --> https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-741gx-m

Nice. It's clean and has a heat sink. Was that a net win?

I wish it was Universal AGP instead of 1.5V AGP.

That's bizarre but for $10 I think you did pretty good!

Decided for shits and giggles to bid on a couple of systems (spoiler: I won).

IBM PC 5150

Everex DesignNote 486 laptop (might be DSTN, but I can do a TFT swap)

Wow those floppy head shipping protectors look original... don't be surprised if it's in very original i.e. super barebones configuration. 64-256kb of RAM, serial card, floppy card, display card.

BitWrangler wrote on 2025-09-12, 03:00:

Wow those floppy head shipping protectors look original... don't be surprised if it's in very original i.e. super barebones configuration. 64-256kb of RAM, serial card, floppy card, display card.

And get ready to replace tantalum capacitors after you plug it in for the first time!

Here is a guide to early versions of the 5150
https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150/early/5150_early.htm

douglar wrote on 2025-09-12, 00:15:

I thought I bought a P36 GEforce 2 MX 400 for $10 --> https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/msi-ms-8826-ver-2-0 […]
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I thought I bought a P36 GEforce 2 MX 400 for $10 --> https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/msi-ms-8826-ver-2-0

Instead I received a motherboard box labeled H61M-P21. Hmmm. Curious. But we are not done.

Inside that box was a purple ECS 741gx-m with a 1100 Mhz Duron and 768MB of DDR memory --> https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-741gx-m

Nice. It's clean and has a heat sink. Was that a net win?

I wish it was Universal AGP instead of 1.5V AGP.

I have one of those, I bought it in a lot of parts close to three years ago. The VGA port is broken off, probably someone tripped over the monitor cable with it plugged in, so the onboard VGA doesn't work, but it's a perfectly good board other than that (no one on Ebay wanted it though).

sketchus wrote on 2025-09-06, 06:40:

That case is awesome.

Managed to pick up a cheapish Asus P2B 1.10 today.

The only problem is I have an ABIT BH6 already, and I'm not sure which to use for my Tualatin build.

Well none of the supports the Tualatin officially. What kind of slotket are you planning to use?

PD2JK wrote on 2025-09-10, 18:35:

Two 366 Celly's. Yes guess which mainboards they're going on to and the clock speed.

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Oh, you bought a pair of 550s for your BP6? 😁

Been binning some 400s for mine, hoping to find a pair capable of 600. Out of 9, none would do 600 stable 🙁 366@550 is a lot more plausible success.

douglar wrote on 2025-09-12, 03:17:

And get ready to replace tantalum capacitors after you plug it in for the first time! Here is a guide to early versions of th […]
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BitWrangler wrote on 2025-09-12, 03:00:

Wow those floppy head shipping protectors look original... don't be surprised if it's in very original i.e. super barebones configuration. 64-256kb of RAM, serial card, floppy card, display card.

And get ready to replace tantalum capacitors after you plug it in for the first time!

Here is a guide to early versions of the 5150
https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150/early/5150_early.htm

The system will definitely get the full recap before I power it on and back up the ROMs as well.

Here's a picture of the back of the system:

Definitely the very early revision.

No serial card, though.

Hi !

Found these bad boys on a dual CPU socket 370 server

Pentium III-S 1400mhz Tualatin, the top of the line for P.3

Nunoalex wrote on 2025-09-12, 17:24:

Hi !

Found these bad boys on a dual CPU socket 370 server

Pentium III-S 1400mhz Tualatin, the top of the line for P.3

Very nice!

bjwil1991 wrote on 2025-09-12, 02:45:

Decided for shits and giggles to bid on a couple of systems (spoiler: I won).

IBM PC 5150

You've spent considerably less than I have in obtaining one. I decided to go the piecemeal route and assemble mine from components as they became available. To me it was a bit like the dog that succeeds in chasing down the car - I'm staving off the inevitable disinterest that'll probably descend 10 minutes after I get it working and realise how limited it is. Each to his own, of couse.

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-09-12, 04:05:

PD2JK wrote on 2025-09-10, 18:35:

Two 366 Celly's. Yes guess which mainboards they're going on to and the clock speed.

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Oh, you bought a pair of 550s for your BP6? 😁

Been binning some 400s for mine, hoping to find a pair capable of 600. Out of 9, none would do 600 stable 🙁 366@550 is a lot more plausible success.

That's right! I'm planning to conduct a lot of benchmarks with 550 MHz CPU's and I think a 366@550 must be included.

FYI, the bp6 with xp had no issues with different celerys.
I had a 333 and 433 @83fsb 100 years ago

I finally have a working Core 2 machine. In fact I bought 3.

Two Dell Optiplex 780 with Core 2 Duo E8400 and 4GB RAM. One of them has what I think is the original 250GB HDD, while the other has a 2TB HDD that I doubt is original:

A custom built PC in a very nice microATX case, with Asus P5KPL-AM (Intel G31), Celeron 430 and 2GB RAM. This thing came with Windows 10, and despite the little PC's best efforts it's not a pleasant experience 😆

This still feels a little too new to me, but it's already 15 years old, and when I started purposefully acquiring 486 stuff back in 2007/08 those were newer at 12-14 years old, so it's probably the right time to acquire this stuff.

bjwil1991 wrote on 2025-09-12, 05:21:

The system will definitely get the full recap before I power it on and back up the ROMs as well. […]
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douglar wrote on 2025-09-12, 03:17:

And get ready to replace tantalum capacitors after you plug it in for the first time! Here is a guide to early versions of th […]
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BitWrangler wrote on 2025-09-12, 03:00:

Wow those floppy head shipping protectors look original... don't be surprised if it's in very original i.e. super barebones configuration. 64-256kb of RAM, serial card, floppy card, display card.

And get ready to replace tantalum capacitors after you plug it in for the first time!

Here is a guide to early versions of the 5150
https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150/early/5150_early.htm

The system will definitely get the full recap before I power it on and back up the ROMs as well.

Here's a picture of the back of the system:

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Definitely the very early revision.

No serial card, though.

Very nice Rev.A with a fairly low s/n. That’ll have the 16-64k motherboard. May have a hard drive since the original power supply’s been replaced.

Picked this up locally for $50 the other day.

AST Advantage! Adventure 575 w/

* an AMD 5x86-133 processor
* 8MB of RAM
* onboard 1MB Cirrus Logic GD-5440 graphics
* onboard ESS 1868f sound
* a 600MB HDD
* an 8x Toshiba CD-ROM.

Also included was the original ASTVision 4i monitor (which uses a weird DE-15 to DE-9 cable), the original mouse, keyboard, and speakers, the original restore diskette and CD, owners manual and warranty manuals for monitor and computer, all the bundled OEM software, and a period correct scanner and printer that I am unsure if were originally bundled with it. Basically I have everything that would have came in the original box except the box itself. Previous owner was a boomer lady who based on what I saw on the hard drive just used to play a bunch of DOS games (which were also included, sadly in diskette/CD only form mostly). Probably because based on the 1996 build date on some of the components she got completely screwed over buying a PC that was, if we are being honest, obsolete long before it was ever taken out of the box. Or even built, in this case.

The Dallas RTC was dead, so I had to dremel that open and solder a CR2032 battery to it but aside from that it seems to work fabulously. C: was clogged with files from aforementioned MS-DOS programs and the restore diskette wasn't wanting to work correctly so I have started Win95B installed on it right now.