idspispopd wrote:

IS-STORM is Millenium (on later cards the chip was labeled 2064W). The other one is Millenium II (2164W). Maxi Gamer Phoenis is […]
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soviet conscript wrote:

a G200+, S3 Virge, Voodoo 3, 2 Matrox cards that I think are milliniums...or millinium II's I don't really know. I think the maxi gamer Phoenix is a Voodoo Banshee card

IS-STORM is Millenium (on later cards the chip was labeled 2064W). The other one is Millenium II (2164W).
Maxi Gamer Phoenis is indeed Banshee.
I'm still surprised that Virge cards are so uncommon in Russia. This ExperColor one seems to be a plain Virge 325 so I'd not try using it for S3D, especially not with only 2MB. Should be nice for DOS/2D, though.

As far as I can see, that ExpertColor can also accept ExpertColor's own S3 Scenic MX MPEG decoder upgrade (those long connecters on the upper edge and mini jack socket on the bracket are there for that purpose).

Skyscraper wrote:

More old but not really retro stuff. […]
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More old but not really retro stuff.

Boxed 8800 GTX

Holy mother of cow I had bought this brand new back then. 600 euros!

Bought for the price of postage:

An old 20MB JVC JD-3824ROT1 hard drive, used in the Toshiba T1200 (so I'll be looking for one of those to put it in). Beautifully heavy drive.

Lukeno94 wrote:

Bought for the price of postage:

Awesome! A toaster!! 😁

Lukeno94 wrote:

An old 20MB JVC JD-3824ROT1 hard drive, used in the Toshiba T1200 (so I'll be looking for one of those to put it in). Beautifully heavy drive.

Oh... not a toaster 😢

Beautiful Tyan Sockel 7 Mainboard and the third CT6670 Voodoo 2 in my collection, finally I have two cards with 12MB memory, now I'll only have to get an SLI cable somewhere...

nemail wrote:

Beautiful Tyan Sockel 7 Mainboard and the third CT6670 Voodoo 2 in my collection, finally I have two cards with 12MB memory, now I'll only have to get an SLI cable somewhere...

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$11.99 free shipping, if you're in the USA: http://www.ebay.com/itm/131490205966

Or make one yourself from a floppy cable:
http://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/How_to_ma … doo_2_SLI_cable

idspispopd wrote:

I'm still surprised that Virge cards are so uncommon in Russia. This ExperColor one seems to be a plain Virge 325 so I'd not try using it for S3D, especially not with only 2MB. Should be nice for DOS/2D, though.

In Russian the gap between rich and poor people is quite large compared to Europe. Today the engineers and workers of our plant earn 15 000-20 000 RUR monthly, their superiors earn up to 50 000 and chiefs of departments have salary well above 100 000. How much CEOs make is beyond my knowledge. And they all pay the same 13% tax. The gap was much bigger during 1990s, which are also known as "dashing 90s". That pretty much means that most retro hardware here comes from two categories: ultra low-end and high-end. Low-end videocard market was dominated by S3Trio family and high-end videocard market was dominated by 3dfx. The virge family belongs to budget 3D accelerators, which did not fit either category: too costly for some and not good enough for others.

Do not quite agree with you.
So it might be true for a distant regions. But in large cities, the situation was more even (distribution inside country was very bad, and now is just little better).
Virge was one of the most popular video cards in the mid-90s in my environment.

Got a K5 PR133 today, waiting for a Socket 7 mobo + Pentium 100 to arrive for a 100MHz game bench battle.

I bought this lot of random AMD K8 CPUs for ~16 Euro. Can someone spot why I thought that these CPUs could be worth at least 16 Euro?

Find Waldo! Nobody else did it seems...

The Athlon64-FX processor? That's about all I can discern without any better pictures.

QBiN wrote:

The Athlon64-FX processor? That's about all I can discern without any better pictures.

Thats the one, and the other pic shows for what socket the CPU is.

The model number is possible to decipher aswell if you know where to look, its a FX-57 😀

Nice score on the FX-57! Good 939 chips are hard to find cheap 🙁

Neat find on the A64s. I recently snagged an FX-55 and 4000+ myself; haven't tested the 55, but the 4000+ works great (from benchmarks, my understanding is the 55 is generally slightly faster, ignoring overclocking potential). Anything else in that lot worthwhile/interesting?

obobskivich wrote:

Neat find on the A64s. I recently snagged an FX-55 and 4000+ myself; haven't tested the 55, but the 4000+ works great (from benchmarks, my understanding is the 55 is generally slightly faster, ignoring overclocking potential). Anything else in that lot worthwhile/interesting?

Depends on what you find interesting I guess 😀

There is alot of socket 939 A64 3500+ in the lot. I think some are San Diegos, with luck there is a 3+ GHz capable chip among them. I fully expect the FX57 to do 3 GHz at stock voltage. There were also a socket 754 mobile A64 3000+ in the lot, if its a 0,09 um chip it could fun to see if it can reach 2.6 - 2.7 Ghz 😀

Picked up a 1991 Mitsumi Caddy load IDE CD-Rom drive from Goodwill! This thing is so cool, pefect for a 386.

The sad thing is that the single core Sempron LE-1300 benches higher than a Athlon64-FX.

I never thought could find a v5 5500 here in Brazil

Just $35 and working great 😀

Nice score on the 5500!