Socket 3 PCI boards have become rather rare / expensive.
So this seemed worth a gamble.

I may be a fool and it might turn out to be utterly useless yet.

Intel Aries chipset with CL onboard VGA. 2 PCI, 3 ISA via riser.

Searching those numbers so far hints at some rather proprietary embedded controller of industrial cnc machinery...
(no documentation whatsover in sight...)

RandomStranger wrote on Today, 13:32:

Today I picked up two of the graphics cards of all time.

MX4000 32bit, the worst of the Geforce 2/4 MX

Wow a 32 bit NV18, weren't those banned by the Montreal protocol? 🤣
The part I like the most is that premium low-loss inductor at L19
On the bright side it has 5ns memory and the passives for the missing modules seem all there so it may be possibile to turn it into a gaming powerhouse just by soldering the missing ICs and flashing a 64 bit bios*.

andrea wrote on Today, 18:04:

Wow a 32 bit NV18, weren't those banned by the Montreal protocol? XD The part I like the most is that premium low-loss inductor […]
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RandomStranger wrote on Today, 13:32:

Today I picked up two of the graphics cards of all time.

MX4000 32bit, the worst of the Geforce 2/4 MX

Wow a 32 bit NV18, weren't those banned by the Montreal protocol? 🤣
The part I like the most is that premium low-loss inductor at L19
On the bright side it has 5ns memory and the passives for the missing modules seem all there so it may be possibile to turn it into a gaming powerhouse just by soldering the missing ICs and flashing a 64 bit bios*.

*

On NV34 the bios defines the memory ranks and the hw straps set the module size. NV18 is designed to be pin-compatible with NV34 so i don't think nVidia reinvented the wheel for nothing

Ironically Sparkle made the exact opposite of that 🤣
https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/spar … sp7310m4t-128mb

Some interesting cards, physically okay, but needs testing.

I can't test the Compaq CPU/RAM board as I lack a Prosignia (?). That funky EISA card with all the RJ45 jacks is going to be a challenge as well, so I don't think I'm gonna spend time on that.

andrea wrote on Today, 18:04:

On the bright side it has 5ns memory and the passives for the missing modules seem all there so it may be possibile to turn it into a gaming powerhouse just by soldering the missing ICs and flashing a 64 bit bios*.

That was the first thing when I've seen it, but that would defeat the purpose of having the worst 😁

PcBytes wrote on Today, 18:09:

Ironically Sparkle made the exact opposite of that 🤣
https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/spar … sp7310m4t-128mb

See but at least the Sparkle makes sense... in hindsight perhaps even more sense than the 256MB NV34s.
But that 32 bit card why?
Such a compromised design and then they stuffed it with 64MB of premium name-brand memory.
Considering that I don't see it able to do much beyond the "3D Flowerbox" screensaver, the usual pulled-from-supermarket-prebuilt Radeon 7000, a 64 bit Rage 128 Pro or even the later AGP 4x TNT2 M64s would all be cheaper and more competent at being a low end card.

"But a system integrator could use it to say their machine has a GF4 class card" you may say, but it's so cheaply built no mayor OEM would use it, and most mom-and-pop type system builders would either use the above or go with chipset graphics I feel.
(I'm basing the previous thought after having see how much care the shop I worked for, in much later years, took in its builds, and on what old machines of them came back in for service/scrap/trade, so I may be biased and wrong)

PD2JK wrote on Today, 18:47:

Some interesting cards, physically okay, but needs testing.

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I can't test the Compaq CPU/RAM board as I lack a Prosignia (?). That funky EISA card with all the RJ45 jacks is going to be a challenge as well, so I don't think I'm gonna spend time on that.

I understand the three 3Dfx cards, S3 Vision, Edge 3D, and MGA. The rest are too esoteric for me - I might make out what they are for but lack an ecosystem to utilise them. The NIC is a vey big NIC, but what are the other gismos - maybe terminals or blades?