Did some shopping today. Bought a Soyo SY-5EH5 v1.3 motherboard from eBay. Supposedly new old stock, so it comes with the driver/software CD, cables, etc. The seller also stated that it is refurbished, all the capacitors have been changed out so it will work properly. Tested with the same CPU I'm going to use, the AMD K6-2 500MHz! Chose this one since it is AT and have the keyboard DIN plug on the back, which makes it fit my computer case nicely. Also have almost the same amount of ISA/PCI slots, which is nice. One of the PCI slots are replaced with an AGP on this new board
Since the new motherboard have AGP, I went up on the attic and dug out a Creative 3D Blaster TNT2 Ultra which uses the nVidia RIVA chipset. Is this one of the best cards from this era, or are there anything with much improvement over this one released in the 90s?
While going through the old stuff I also stumbled on something else I thought were gone forever... The old water cooling equipment my father made in the late 90s! If I'm not mistaken, this was used on a dual Intel Celeron 300A setup, and they were overclocked over a 100%. The inside of the cabinet got so cold that it actually gradually built up snow on the inside of the case. He used some peltier elements which became very cool. You can see the rectifiers on the wooden plank, a water tank, the CPU elements in the picture. A real hack job, as it didn't exist any kits for this kind of stuff in those days.
EDIT: The water tank is in fact a transformer for the peltier elements. 230 volt to 16 volt (I think), made with what was available. Turned out to be an oversized core, so it won't have any trouble with delivering enough juice.
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