So, I was browsing the drawers of stuff at my go-to computer spot and saw a Gold-Top Pentium in there.

As I dug for it, something was off. I flipped it over once I had it, and revealed the truth: Socket 4 Pentium!! What??!

Where did the board go?! Most frustrating part of shopping there. Everything gets taken apart and scattered to the wind. I feel lucky anyway, I didn't even consider adding a socket 4 Pentium to my collection, due to rarity.

I find myself now stuck in a new place:

The fun part is that after spending many years and the last shreds of your sanity finding the motherboard, you realise that those are easier to find than good condition heatsink-fans for them. 🤣

Though you might get lucky sooner eyeballing "486" PCI motherboard listing for mis-IDed socket 4 boards.

BitWrangler wrote on 2025-09-14, 23:20:

those are easier to find than good condition heatsink-fans for them. 🤣

Oh really? I did not know that. I still have the Intel heatsink + fan that came with my P4b, brand new in its original box. I'd never thought these things were difficult to find these days.

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-09-14, 22:02:

So, I was browsing the drawers of stuff at my go-to computer spot and saw a Gold-Top Pentium in there. […]
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So, I was browsing the drawers of stuff at my go-to computer spot and saw a Gold-Top Pentium in there.

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As I dug for it, something was off. I flipped it over once I had it, and revealed the truth: Socket 4 Pentium!! What??!

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And in great looking condition as well, congratulations! But yeah, the caveat is the Socket 4 - those boards aren't excactly plentyful

PD2JK wrote on 2025-09-13, 08:54:

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.

That's funny, I'm looking into the same thing, just at 450 🤣

Celeron Covington 300@450
Celeron Mendocino 300A@450A
Pentium II Deschutes 450
Pentium III Katmai 450
Pentium III Coppermine 600EB@450E

Should about cover that.

Personally, I'm pretty proud of the smartness that is underclocking a Coppermine so all run at same both speed and FSB. A pity though, that I can't get a CuMine based Celeron in it as well .. 😉

Got myself a pair couple of 12MiB Voodoo2s. Unkown brands, though, without brackets.

Reasonably cheap to risk it, especially since they allegedly worked according to seller, who promised a refund if not.

Now, they don't. They detect in Win98, install driver - driver gets angry if I boot without them - but can't start neither DxDiag (fails D3D) nor 3DMark 1999 or 2001.

With one of them, Mojo reports "No Voodoo card found" (or whatever the exact words are) with one of them, the other one reports only 1 MiB for TMU0.

Reached out to seller, who refunded half of the purchase price, without me needing to return them. Hopefully I can get at least one working card from them (fingers crossed, waiting for Witchery to release) 😀

I continue to add "that's strange" things to my collection, and today it's yet another odd 486...

...an effective 486 on Socket 5. Yeah. A first generation IDT Win Chip 200. I'll probably never use it seriously, but I'm happy to have it regardless.