Nexxen wrote on 2026-10-06, 11:36:You can regrow kidneys, I say! 🤣
Nice, in box and looking well preserved... congrats!
🤣 very true. Thank you!!
Jccwu wrote on 2026-10-03, 16:50:Living wrote on 2026-10-03, 16:31:Jccwu wrote on 2026-10-02, 13:58:Rate my new enrgaved brackets
can we get an STL for 3d print?
This is a 2D sketch for AutoCAD. Now with logo.
Sir your brackets look awesome, but I've also checked out your youtube channel and it's so nice to hear the differences between sound cards! Thanks a lot for that!
Got a Fully modded Fat PS2, so I can play US and Japan games here in Australia, got a SSD in it too with McFreebootHDD. Also grabbed a couple of nice Radeon HD5770 cards too that came as a X-Fire pair and a HD7770 Ghz card, none of them have been tested yet but Terrascale 2 cards are pretty hard to kill like the Cockroaches they were born from. The HD7770 worries me as I have had a two before and they were DOA which seems to be par for the course with the Ghz ones...perhaps caused by running hot.
Hopefully it works .. if not I guess itll join the other two as pretty paper weights.
Good luck with the HD7770. Haven't done much with mine, but I have had a HD7750 longer. Now that has refused to work on a couple of boards, common factor might be that they are PCIe 1.0 so maybe not a card for 754, 939, Netburst era systems. I don't have the figures to hand or embrained, but PCIe 1.0 was particularly weak on the initialization power available at 1x, and the GPUs need to bootstrap off that to request full power and extra PCIe lanes. Anyway, just a thing to point out that if you haven't tried the previous HD7770 on a higher PCIe version, you maybe haven't tried them.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
BitWrangler wrote on 2026-10-08, 13:43:Good luck with the HD7770. Haven't done much with mine, but I have had a HD7750 longer. Now that has refused to work on a couple of boards, common factor might be that they are PCIe 1.0 so maybe not a card for 754, 939, Netburst era systems. I don't have the figures to hand or embrained, but PCIe 1.0 was particularly weak on the initialization power available at 1x, and the GPUs need to bootstrap off that to request full power and extra PCIe lanes. Anyway, just a thing to point out that if you haven't tried the previous HD7770 on a higher PCIe version, you maybe haven't tried them.
The two dead ones are dead Jim, they won’t post on any boards I have for testing, Z97, Z68, x58 and my 754 board all refuse to post with them.
I didnt bake them, not sure that would help though, open to trying weird stuff with them since they are dead.
An Asus P4T-F with a 1.6 Willamette and 2x128 MiB RDRAM and C-RIMMs for a reasonable price 😀
If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎
--- GA586DX --- P2B-DS --- BP6 ---
Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀
H3nrik V! wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:01:An Asus P4T-F with a 1.6 Willamette and 2x128 MiB RDRAM and C-RIMMs for a reasonable price 😀
Unusual arrangement of the RIMM sockets on that board. I wonder why they arranged them like that.
What is the DIP switch for?
Bought this Full Yes S3805 S3 86C805-P graphics card for the 486 build I'm working on right now. I did a recap and upgraded the RAM to full 2MiB. Since the board has SMD pads, I bought these high quality/low ESR Panasonic POSCAP tantalum caps. They weren't cheap, but I only needed four and the build quality of the board itself is very decent, so it was worth it.
A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
OPTi MAD16 / Creative Vibra16XV ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:17:H3nrik V! wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:01:An Asus P4T-F with a 1.6 Willamette and 2x128 MiB RDRAM and C-RIMMs for a reasonable price 😀
Unusual arrangement of the RIMM sockets on that board. I wonder why they arranged them like that.
Hehe, take a look at the MSI 850 Pro2. 😆
has all kinds of stuff
PD2JK wrote on 2026-10-08, 17:50:ElectroSoldier wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:17:H3nrik V! wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:01:An Asus P4T-F with a 1.6 Willamette and 2x128 MiB RDRAM and C-RIMMs for a reasonable price 😀
Unusual arrangement of the RIMM sockets on that board. I wonder why they arranged them like that.
Hehe, take a look at the MSI 850 Pro2. 😆
RIMMs run ouchy hot, so maybe something to do with allowing airflow.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
more brackets. Check it out.
ElectroSoldier wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:17:H3nrik V! wrote on 2026-10-08, 14:01:An Asus P4T-F with a 1.6 Willamette and 2x128 MiB RDRAM and C-RIMMs for a reasonable price 😀
Unusual arrangement of the RIMM sockets on that board. I wonder why they arranged them like that.
What is the DIP switch for?
Well, the P4T (no F) has the RIMMs arranged more traditional. Goggle (well Gemini) tells me that the -F was an OEM version of the P4T
The DIP switch is for both multiplier and FSB - though the multiplier it's locked in Pentium 4 CPUs
If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎
--- GA586DX --- P2B-DS --- BP6 ---
Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀
Jccwu wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:10:more brackets. Check it out.
You've made these yourself?
A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
OPTi MAD16 / Creative Vibra16XV ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!
Don’t copy that floppy.
dominusprog wrote on 2026-10-08, 16:25:Bought this Full Yes S3805 S3 86C805-P graphics card for the 486 build I'm working on right now. I did a recap and upgraded the RAM to full 2MiB...
Did you also add the heatsink? I've seen a few other 805 cards and none had a heatsink.
dominusprog wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:54:Jccwu wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:10:more brackets. Check it out.
You've made these yourself?
yeap
Jccwu wrote on Yesterday, 13:35:dominusprog wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:54:Jccwu wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:10:more brackets. Check it out.
You've made these yourself?
yeap
They're fab! 😎
Recent purchases:
- MSI 845 Pro (423, SDR) + P4 1.5GHz - Inves (Spain) OEM
- Gigabyte GA-7IXE NOS
- Winfast A280LE 128MB AGP8x
- SB AWE64 CT4520
"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: R5 1600, MSI X470 Gaming+ MAX, 16GB RAM, 3TB
98SE : P3 1000, ASUS CUBX-E, 768MB RAM, 80GB
Curse those sneaky underhanded seller offers that lowball you into purchase 🤣 🤣 🤣
So I got a 30 piece lot coming in, nothing unicorn in it, not sure seller is experienced handling PC hardware though, so hope it doesn't end up more than 30 pieces by the time it gets here. It's a bit of a roulette lot, and kind of a spread from mid 90s to mid teens. If 2 of the pieces work, great, it paid for the lot plus $60, another and we're up to 100, 2 others 150, another 5, $250, the other 20 are probably $10 average "good to have around" stuff, there's about 5 that I wouldn't have bothered with though 256MB DDR, modem, etc.
Yes this is a teaser, only got a "what I think it is" on a lot of stuff rather than positive ID so it's a bit speculative until I have it in hand and can ID more definitely.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Jccwu wrote on Yesterday, 13:35:dominusprog wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:54:Jccwu wrote on 2026-10-08, 19:10:more brackets. Check it out.
You've made these yourself?
yeap
Very nice! You should sell them on eBay.
A-Trend ATC-1020 V1.1 ❇ Cyrix 6x86 150+ @ 120MHz ❇ 32MiB EDO RAM (8MiBx4) ❇ A-Trend S3 Trio64V2 2MiB
OPTi MAD16 / Creative Vibra16XV ❇ 8.4GiB Quantum Fireball ❇ Win95 OSR2 Plus!
