BSA Starfire wrote:

Got this lovely Tomato 4DPS 2.1 motherboard from ebay, will go really well with the AMD DX/4 100 and Cyrix 5x86 100 CPU's I got recently. Can't wait for it to arrive.

That's a nice late board mate. Titchy little things those baby AT boards considering the integrated controller etc. Less space for cache though unfortunately. Do you know if it can do 50Mhz?

I completely forgot to post that my QDI Platinix 2E/333 motherboard arrived yesterday. Unfortunately due to work schedule I won't be able to fire it up until Tue or Wed. It has, as expected, a 3x2 solder pad labeled "PCPCI" with no header on it. I'll solder a header and test whether it works for DOS sound with a YMF744 card. Chipset i845E, don't think there were any later motherboards with even a hint of PCPCI.

Only issue, based on some quick testing I did, is that my only s478 cooler (originally from a HP server) exceeds the size of the retention bracket by a few millimeters. I'll have either to saw off a bit of the cooler's base, or better yet remove the bracket and secure the cooler by alternate means.

brassicGamer wrote:

BSA Starfire wrote:

Got this lovely Tomato 4DPS 2.1 motherboard from ebay, will go really well with the AMD DX/4 100 and Cyrix 5x86 100 CPU's I got recently. Can't wait for it to arrive.

That's a nice late board mate. Titchy little things those baby AT boards considering the integrated controller etc. Less space for cache though unfortunately. Do you know if it can do 50Mhz?

Looking at the manual it can do 50 MHz, it lists a setting for the DX 50. Shame it doesn't seem to support UMC U5S 486's though, at least according to the manual.

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My Compaq 486 laptop doesn't have any speakers (or a sound card) but I can pair a PCMCIA card with these snazzy PS/2-powered speakers.

http://ebay.com/itm/131843416564

Can't wait to hear some of that "INCEDIBLE SOUND!" 😁

brassicGamer wrote:

BSA Starfire wrote:

Got this lovely Tomato 4DPS 2.1 motherboard from ebay, will go really well with the AMD DX/4 100 and Cyrix 5x86 100 CPU's I got recently. Can't wait for it to arrive.

That's a nice late board mate. Titchy little things those baby AT boards considering the integrated controller etc. Less space for cache though unfortunately. Do you know if it can do 50Mhz?

They usually handle 50MHz very well, 4DPS and its twin sister, PCI400, were very common around here and overclocking has always been their strong feature.

Picked this little lot up for £free locally a few minutes ago - a freecycle ad that explained nothing about except that it was some random computer parts:

Quite a nice selection of stuff including:

- Asus P5LD2 with C2D E6320 (1066 FSB)
- MSI MS-7506 (AM2) with Athlon 64 2000+ (Lima Core)
- More RAM than you can shake a stick at from SDRAM to DDR3 including some matched kits.
- 570W Trust PSU (I'm sure someone will tell me if these are any good)
- PNY GeForce 6600
- Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 Pro
- 2x MSI MS-8936 GeForce4 MX4000
- ATi Rage 128 Ultra

Particularly curious about that last one as it will complement my early AGP SS7 graphics card group test nicely.

brassicGamer wrote:

Picked this little lot up for £free locally a few minutes ago - a freecycle ad that explained nothing about except that it was s […]
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Picked this little lot up for £free locally a few minutes ago - a freecycle ad that explained nothing about except that it was some random computer parts:

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Quite a nice selection of stuff including:

- Asus P5LD2 with C2D E6320 (1066 FSB)
- MSI MS-7506 (AM2) with Athlon 64 2000+ (Lima Core)
- More RAM than you can shake a stick at from SDRAM to DDR3 including some matched kits.
- 570W Trust PSU (I'm sure someone will tell me if these are any good)
- PNY GeForce 6600
- Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 Pro
- 2x MSI MS-8936 GeForce4 MX4000
- ATi Rage 128 Ultra

Particularly curious about that last one as it will complement my early AGP SS7 graphics card group test nicely.

I don't know you but now I hate you, plain and simple 🤣
And the Sapphire 2600 is AGP! Very nice haul for free.

shiva2004 wrote:

I don't know you but now I hate you, plain and simple 🤣
And the Sapphire 2600 is AGP! Very nice haul for free.

If i was you i would also hate me. But i have got good, like menu retro enthusiasts here, at knowing where to look 😀 takes time and patience but the rewards can be nice.

shiva2004 wrote:

And the Sapphire 2600 is AGP! Very nice haul for free.

Well, even HD2600 XT Agp is so slow... HD2600 Pro Agp is even worse. HD3850 Agp/HD4670 Agp have the same fatal flaw (no Win9x drivers) but at least they can run Furry Cube at 60+ FPS. 😀
Still - it's free...

Gamecollector wrote:

shiva2004 wrote:

And the Sapphire 2600 is AGP! Very nice haul for free.

Well, even HD2600 XT Agp is so slow... HD2600 Pro Agp is even worse. HD3850 Agp/HD4670 Agp have the same fatal flaw (no Win9x drivers) but at least they can run Furry Cube at 60+ FPS. 😀
Still - it's free...

It's still not bad, its about as fast as a 6800 NU with alot lower power requirements

Bought Ensoniq Soundscape Elite today. Paid 15 USD. Don't know the condition yet, but the seller says it works just fine 😀

Bought a bunch of old hardware. He was going to scrap all of them.

Here the list of all the parts:

Motherboards:
1. ECS P4ITA with Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz and 256 MB RAMBUS with CRIMMs
2. Gigabyte GA-K8NMF-9 with Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 2 Ghz, 512 KB L2
3. Leadtek/Foxconn Winfast 760GXK8MC with Semrpom 2600+, 1.6 Ghz 128 KB L2
4. Intel D865GSA with Pentium 4 540, 3.2 Ghz
5. Intel D945GNT with Pentium 4 630, 3.0 Ghz
6. ASUS A7N8X-X with AMD Semprom 2400+, 1.66 Ghz 256 KB L2
7. ASUS P4S800-MX with Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
CPUs (spare ones):
1. Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz 2.40/512/533
2. Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz 2.60/512/400
3. Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz 2.66/512/533
4. Pentium 4 HT 2.8 Ghz 2.80/512/800
GPUs:
1. 2x Radeon 9250 AGP
2. 3x Geforce FX5500 AGP
3. 2x Geforce 2 MX400
4. Geforce 4 MX 440
5. Geforce 6200 PCI-E Turbocache
6. Geforce 2 MX
Network cards:
1. Realtek 8169SC
2. Realtek 8139
Soundcards:
1. Sounblaster Live! 5.1
RAM:
1. 3x Kingston ValueRAM 512 MB
2. 2x Micron/Crucial 256 MB DDR333
3. Samsung DDR266 256 MB
4. Unkown DDR stick
5. Elixir 256 MB DDR 400
6. Elixir 512 MB DDR 400
7. TwinMOS 512 MB DDR 400
8. Nanya 256 MB DDR 333
9. Corsair Valueselect 1 GB DDR 400
10. Corsiar Valueselect 512 MB DDR400
11. Kingston ValueRAM 512 MB DDR2 533
HDD:
1. Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160 GB IDE
2. WD Caviar 160 GB IDE
3. Segate U Series 5 20 GB
4. Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 120 GB SATA
Misc:
1. 2x PCI 2.0 cards
2. PCI Firewire Controller
3. Internal USB 2.0 to USB port
4. Intel Socket 423 stock cooler

Carlos S. M. wrote:

Bought a bunch of old hardware. He was going to scrap all of them.

*snip*

Have fun testing that lot!

Scored another 9800 GX2 for $35 shipped and got stupid lucky (like win the lottery stupid) and found a second rare EVGA GTX 295 Red edition for $80 shipped (ouch first card only cost $53) but it is very cool to own 2 out of 500 ever made. 😎 Less than 100 to 200 are likely to still be in existence, besides the red paint everything is cherry picked including the vrms as these cards were specially made. Two of these at 835mhz on water held a 6 week world record in 3Dmark back in 2009. 😲

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Looks like a Sony 2X caddy loading CD-ROM drive (likely SCSI). Those are nice.

Carlos S. M. wrote:

Soundcards:
1. Sounblaster Live! 5.1

It's another SB0220 Dell *censored*.
Welcome to the club... 😀

Bought a Vortex Aureal 2-based sound card. Heard so much about them but never had one.

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