sliderider wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

There is nothing oem about that board, typical eBay seller ignorance. Great score though!

I have an Asus P5A-B that I pulled out of a Compaq case that *looks* like a retail board but has a Compaq BIOS.

Interesting... Are the various BIOS screens Compaq-branded or is there some other visual indication of the difference between it and a 'normal' P5A-B BIOS?

Asus made a LOT of motherboards for OEMs. And the vast majority of these boards can be flashed with the normal bios and have no issues. My Asus XG-DLS was pulled from an HP machine, but it runs the aftermarket bios.

Got some more GPUs:

Got a bid lot of 80gb WD 7,200rpm IDE drives for upgrades and spares, and a unopened 10-pack of 3.5" FDs to replace my current crop of sagging and failing floppy boot disks..

luckybob wrote:

Asus made a LOT of motherboards for OEMs. And the vast majority of these boards can be flashed with the normal bios and have no issues. My Asus XG-DLS was pulled from an HP machine, but it runs the aftermarket bios.

I have a Sony Vios re-branded ASUS P4S533-VL, but I've never managed to find the ASUS reference bios for it. There are bios for many of the other boards in the P4s533 family, but not this one as far as I can tell.

Not a bad board and I use it anyway. You can disable the Sony boot screen, an booting without ram opens a one-off bios session with all features unlocked - hardly ideal, but once things are up and running it's okay.

Grabbed this one today.. Price was 'ok' given the fact it includes the CD-ROM drive, CT-1600 SB Pro card, midi kit, manuals and original box. I've seen the bare cards go for as much as this entire kit went for.

Creative Sound Blaster Multimedia Upgrade Kit
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111299907066

Artex wrote:

Grabbed this one today.. Price was 'ok' given the fact it includes the CD-ROM drive, CT-1600 SB Pro card, midi kit, manuals and original box. I've seen the bare cards go for as much as this entire kit went for.

Creative Sound Blaster Multimedia Upgrade Kit
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111299907066

I was wondering if one of us was going to grab that. I had it on my watch list the entire run of the sale.

senrew wrote:

Artex wrote:

Grabbed this one today.. Price was 'ok' given the fact it includes the CD-ROM drive, CT-1600 SB Pro card, midi kit, manuals and original box. I've seen the bare cards go for as much as this entire kit went for.

Creative Sound Blaster Multimedia Upgrade Kit
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111299907066

I was wondering if one of us was going to grab that. I had it on my watch list the entire run of the sale.

I'm a little surprised it don't go higher at the last second. Shipping sucks of course, but it is what it is.

I bought this little fellow. $40 😀.

Skyscraper wrote:

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I bought this little fellow. $40 😀.

Is that supposed to be a rare stepping or something? I know it's an EE, but surely they can't be that hard to find.

Extreme Edition P4?

sliderider wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

I bought this little fellow. $40 😀.

Is that supposed to be a rare stepping or something? I know it's an EE, but surely they can't be that hard to find.

The normal going price for the socket 478 Gallatin 3.4 is higher than what I paid.
Even the 3.2 is very expensive.
The less fancy Northwood 3.4 goes for ~$20, at least here in Sweden.

The socket 775 Gallatin is not worth much though.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Extreme Edition P4?

Yes 😀

Cool! I guess there aren't a lot around.

How much did these sell for back in the day? Quite a bit, right?

Do these have unlocked multiplier or was this a Core 2 thing?

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Cool! I guess there aren't a lot around.

How much did these sell for back in the day? Quite a bit, right?

Do these have unlocked multiplier or was this a Core 2 thing?

if memory serves, they were $1000 new. Most people didn't want them because of the marginal performance gain in a dead-end socket. (478)

There are 2 on ebay right now, each for $200. A typical asking price, they are not very common and will probably remain high-priced.

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Cool! I guess there aren't a lot around.

How much did these sell for back in the day? Quite a bit, right?

Do these have unlocked multiplier or was this a Core 2 thing?

I do not think they are unlocked, at least not the s478 version.
I have not tried to change the multiplier yet though.

The price when new was around $1000.

Very cool! Looks like you got a bargain there 😀

Got another Model M today, type 1936790. Seems identical to 1931401 as far as I can tell.

luckybob wrote:

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Cool! I guess there aren't a lot around.

How much did these sell for back in the day? Quite a bit, right?

Do these have unlocked multiplier or was this a Core 2 thing?

if memory serves, they were $1000 new. Most people didn't want them because of the marginal performance gain in a dead-end socket. (478)

There are 2 on ebay right now, each for $200. A typical asking price, they are not very common and will probably remain high-priced.

For $200 you can buy a whole laptop with the same CPU in it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-INSPIRON-XPS-GEN … =item4ad2279069

I'd hate to have that machine sitting in my lap for any extended period of time, though. It must get boiling hot. My Athlon 64 3400+ machine used to get really hot and that was a cooler running chip than a P4.

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luckybob wrote:

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Cool! I guess there aren't a lot around.

How much did these sell for back in the day? Quite a bit, right?

Do these have unlocked multiplier or was this a Core 2 thing?

if memory serves, they were $1000 new. Most people didn't want them because of the marginal performance gain in a dead-end socket. (478)

There are 2 on ebay right now, each for $200. A typical asking price, they are not very common and will probably remain high-priced.

For $200 you can buy a whole laptop with the same CPU in it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-INSPIRON-XPS-GEN … =item4ad2279069

I'd hate to have that machine sitting in my lap for any extended period of time, though. It must get boiling hot. My Athlon 64 3400+ machine used to get really hot and that was a cooler running chip than a P4.

I've dealt with laptops like that and got one that will give this one a run for its money heat wise, all 230w of it and that is nothing compared to one modern laptop that uses two 300w chargers! 😲 Feeding dual GTX680m and a 2011 xeon in a laptop form factor isn't something to sneeze at.

Ive got a second Kouwell KW-530D floppy controller.

My first one i bought i while ago when i was full busy working on my 8088 XT turbo machine.. It had a bad bios (after i check it, that bios wasnt the original, so it never worked on 1.44MB / 1.2MB drives.)
When i found a second one a while ago it slipped trought my fingers (because i had to buy other computer stuff too) My first card could never came in action).(only laying on the shelf)
I always hoped to find an another one.. And there it its.. Hopefully this card works flawless with the original bios it came with.. Now what iam have to do, is backup this bios.. And write an new eprom for my other card..
Then iam really happy to solve this non-working first card if have..

Heres my first one: