PcBytes wrote on 2025-12-14, 17:58:

- Dell Optiplex GX1 (yes, I got another one, which seems to have Coppermine support out of the box 🤣)

I have one OptiPlex GX1, but where to get PSU cable for good price to use non Dell PSU? A07 bios should be good one to use or there is better one?

PcBytes wrote on 2025-12-14, 17:58:

Let's see:
- pair of Diamond branded Voodoo 2 12MB
- 3d Prophet 4500 Kyro II 64MB

I had this exact setup of cards in my P3 way back when, it was a fun setup.

Lostdotfish wrote on 2025-12-13, 15:29:

I finally found the unobtainium board I've been looking for! […]
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I finally found the unobtainium board I've been looking for!

I mean, ok, it's not quite the one... but it's close enough.

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DFI NF2 Infinity.

I really want the DFI NF2 Ultra B Lanparty board, but I've only seen it fleetingly 2 or 3 times in the past few years.

Caps are cooked on this one but I have a set of polymers on the way to bring it back.

Polymer caps installed and it fired right up. Nice.

Installing XP so I can run some stability tests before I see about adding a ROM slip modded BIOS and put some BH5 RAM in it.

I needed a bigger heatsink for one of my SMP systems, I got a free CPU with it. 😉

And a VIA C3 866 + Samsung 4.3GB HDD.

2 x 4gb 2133MHz DDR3
Pretty pointless but I wanted to give a good kick to my DDR3 boards for once, OC'ing a wee bit.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-12-13, 05:02:

I saw a lot of K6-2 processors for scrap recently, and upon inspection I saw a K6-2+ in the picture. I didn't have one of these […]
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I saw a lot of K6-2 processors for scrap recently, and upon inspection I saw a K6-2+ in the picture. I didn't have one of these yet so I figured it was worth watching. I kept trying to make out details of the other processors and it kinda sorta looked like one might be a K6-III too, but it was just as likely to have been a jpeg artifact. I managed to win the listing for a good price and the lot was delivered today...

... in a bubble mailer... But hey, the seller put a "Handle with Care" sticker on the mailer, so it was probably all good, right?😓

Thankfully, they packed them pretty decently, with a 4 chips in a row, with layer of bubble wrap between the next 4 chips. At first glance I'm not seeing any broken pins though tons of them are severely bent, but I was expecting that anyway... It will take hours to get them all straightened...

So, I dug through the lot, spent a good hour cleaning all the hardened thermal paste off of them and boy, what a score! The lot contained:

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1x K6 PR2-166ALR
1x K6-2 300AFR (with an interesting little scan code printed on it with "300Mhz" next to it... never seen one like this before)
3x K6-2 500AFX
2x K6-2 450AFX
3x K6-2 400AFQ
3x K6-2 380AFR

and the best ones of the lot...

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K6-2+ 550ACZ
K6-III+ 500ANZ

🤩

Still kind of in shock over this find. It looks like all the pins are intact on both of them too. The K6-2+ 550ACZ is 2.0v part, and appears to be the second best K6-2+ you can find, just below the 570ACZ.

The 500ANZ is a 1.8v part... which according to CPU-World makes it the only 500Mhz+ K6-III+ rated for less than 2v. Probably not much of a stretch to say that this is one of the best K6-III+ models I could have found... possibly even better than the 550ACR (2.0v).

I have a bunch of SS7 boards. If you had to couple one of these chips with a board for the best SS7 system possible, with the most flexibility (underclocking, overclocking, performance, compatibility, stability, etc.) what would you choose?

I'm actually impressed.
Hope this brings you luck and fun!

Had a bit of luck recently. I purchased a Libretto 50CT for a very good price. It was failing for the hard drive, but magically just removing and re-installing the drive got it spinning again. But it had a password and I did not have a dock.

While looking for a dock, I stumbled on a second listing even cheaper than the last which had another 50CT and the enhanced dock. The entire kit was less than half of what the dock seems to run for. Snagged it quickly, of course.

After making the parallel port jumper plug, I got passed the password. I 3D printed a CF card adapter and installed an 8GB CF card. Copied over the original drive and all was well.

The second Libretto had a dead hard drive that was not coming back to life. So for now, I just installed the drive from the first unit. Now both are running perfectly.

The first unit was already upgraded to 32MB. Second unit is unfortunately the stock 16MB.

Finally I stumbled on the mini dock also for a very good price and now I have 2 working Libretto 50CTs as well as docks for both.

The bit of luck was the low price I paid for all of this (less than $300 for everything) and the surprise of getting a 32MB Libretto and advanced dock.

Now I just need to print another HDD adapter and switch out the 2nd drive.

Oddly, the one still has all of the original stickers and it claims to have a Pentium with MMX, but supposedly these were Pentium 75 which predates MMX. I need to run CPUID still to sort that out.

At the moment I am looking for a WIFI PCMCIA card which will work with it.

And of course the holy grail: a soundblaster PCMCIA card.

I only wish there was some way to use a wireless mouse without the dock. Were IRDA mice ever a thing?

There were some slowass Pentium MMX for mobile. Though the slowest I remember seeing is 120. However, if it has p-classic BF pins and they are software/bios controlled, as maybe is FSB then you might have it drop back to 50/1.5 when it should be doing 60/2 or 66/2

BitWrangler wrote on Yesterday, 00:37:

There were some slowass Pentium MMX for mobile. Though the slowest I remember seeing is 120. However, if it has p-classic BF pins and they are software/bios controlled, as maybe is FSB then you might have it drop back to 50/1.5 when it should be doing 60/2 or 66/2

I ran CPU-Z on both of them and it reported no MMX support. Someone might have just slapped that sticker on there or perhaps that was just the intel sticker available at the time.

I bought this Cherry keyboard for 3 CHF. Looks brand new, not even yellowed !

mtest001 wrote on Yesterday, 07:48:

I bought this Cherry keyboard for 3 CHF. Looks brand new, not even yellowed !

Would you mind sharing a picture of the back (label) for identification of the exact model?

MattRocks wrote on 2025-12-10, 15:49:

Nunoalex wrote on 2025-12-10, 15:15:

its fking insane ... you list a C64 for 100 euros and it stays there for 10 years, you list it for 5 euros and it is gone in 10 seconds

Clearly there is a struggle to find a fair price?

Years ago someone listed an IBM 8580 for €300.00, I offered 100 and they refused. The ad stayed there for at least a few months and I bet they dumped it instead of reducing the price 🙁

tactica wrote on Yesterday, 08:33:

MattRocks wrote on 2025-12-10, 15:49:

Nunoalex wrote on 2025-12-10, 15:15:

its fking insane ... you list a C64 for 100 euros and it stays there for 10 years, you list it for 5 euros and it is gone in 10 seconds

Clearly there is a struggle to find a fair price?

Years ago someone listed an IBM 8580 for €300.00, I offered 100 and they refused. The ad stayed there for at least a few months and I bet they dumped it instead of reducing the price 🙁

Stupidity knows no boundaries.

Edit: I recently bought 2 19" LCDs for 10€ each. Seller said that if I hadn't come forward to ask he would have taken them to the dumpster the next week.
People throw away because their stuff isn't bough fast enough, accepting to lose money over space.

tactica wrote on Yesterday, 08:22:

Would you mind sharing a picture of the back (label) for identification of the exact model?

Here it is:

I guess it was produced in 2001?

mtest001 wrote:

I guess it was produced in 2001?

Definitely, or after, hence the XP style Windows logo.

mtest001 wrote on Yesterday, 11:55:

I guess it was produced in 2001?

Thanks! If you mean the /01 then no, that only refers to the color of the keyboard. You'd need to disassemble it and take a look at the PCB to find out.

Ha OK. I'll skip that for now then 😀

I have once again upgraded my Macintosh Clone, this time bringing it right up to the turn of the Millennium. It's now powered by a Sonnet G4 450/1M. This in turn means I now have more G4s instead of G3s, despite only having one machine marketed as a G4, and two as a G3.