stamasd wrote:

kanecvr wrote:

Brickpad wrote:

Finally found a used Pentium Overdrive (83MHz) for a reasonable price - $18.50. Has some bent pins, but it looks like it can be easily fixed.

Nice find. I've been looking for one of those for quite a while now - just not willing to pay 45$ + 40$ shipping for it. And there's no chance o sourcing one locally - these things cost more then a cheap socket 5 board + Cyrix or AMD K5 CPU back in the day (in Romania at least).

You should look at some chip trading sites. I got over the past 2 years a few overdrives from http://www.cpu-world.com for much less than that, and they show up regularly. And some of the biggest sellers there are from Russia and Ukraine, so shipping should be decent.

I had no idea cpu-world has a trading section. Thanks for the tip!

kanecvr wrote:

I had no idea cpu-world has a trading section. Thanks for the tip!

Yup, it's a gold mine. 😀 I got so many chips from there, I'm still trying to find a way to organize them.

Picked this Abit VP6 board up for £10 boxed. Boards in good condition but i will certainly be switching out those poor quality Jackon caps. Thinking of doing Windows 2000 build based on 2 Coppermine 1ghz CPU's, 512 ram, YMF724 Sound card and have not really decided on GFX yet. Have GF3, GF4 Ti4200 and a Radeon 9700 Pro at my disposal.

Yesterday i bought an Asus P5A motherboard. Socket 7 ATX

Robin4 wrote:

Yesterday i bought an Asus P5A motherboard. Socket 7 ATX

Nice. One of the few Aladdin V boards worth having. Be careful not to use more then 128MB of ram. The ALi chipset can't cache more regardless of how much L2 cache you have on board, unless you have the rare 1.06 board with revision G chipset witch is a rather rare combination.

stamasd wrote:

kanecvr wrote:

You should look at some chip trading sites. I got over the past 2 years a few overdrives from http://www.cpu-world.com for much less than that, and they show up regularly. And some of the biggest sellers there are from Russia and Ukraine, so shipping should be decent.

I second that. I'm a moderator over there, and it is where most of my collection came from. I think you have to be a member to see the For Sale forum, but it's well worth it. I only collect x86 processors and graphics cards these days, and for the processors cpu-world is the best site I know.

debs3759 wrote:

stamasd wrote:

kanecvr wrote:

You should look at some chip trading sites. I got over the past 2 years a few overdrives from http://www.cpu-world.com for much less than that, and they show up regularly. And some of the biggest sellers there are from Russia and Ukraine, so shipping should be decent.

I second that. I'm a moderator over there, and it is where most of my collection came from. I think you have to be a member to see the For Sale forum, but it's well worth it. I only collect x86 processors and graphics cards these days, and for the processors cpu-world is the best site I know.

Thank you for being a moderator. The forums there are the cleanest and best behaved that I know of - except for Vogons of course. 😉

Nice, did you find it locally?

Robin4 wrote:

Yesterday i bought an Asus P5A motherboard. Socket 7 ATX

I want a VP6... but I dont want to pay for one. 🙁

luckybob wrote:

I want a VP6... but I dont want to pay for one. 🙁

Your fascination with dual sockets is fascinating.

luckybob wrote:

I want a VP6... but I dont want to pay for one. 🙁

I actually have one with dual 800mhz Coppermines sitting on a shelf. Found it at Goodwill for $1 a few years back, only boots to the bios when it feels like it.

ODwilly wrote:

only boots to the bios when it feels like it.

Bad caps most likely.

My latest addition: ~20 Dollars shipped

luckybob wrote:

I want a VP6... but I dont want to pay for one. 🙁

Maybe you can trade one for a Slot 2 board! 😀

Arctic wrote:

luckybob wrote:

I want a VP6... but I dont want to pay for one. 🙁

Maybe you can trade one for a Slot 2 board! 😀

Nice! However i wouldnt let my xg-dls go for anything less than a kings ransom.

It's a bummer slot 2 boards are becoming really hard to get 🙁

luckybob wrote:

Nice! However i wouldnt let my xg-dls go for anything less than a kings ransom.

Is $365 a king's ransom? That's what a XG-DLS is listed on ebay for. 😀

meh. Mine would come with the cpu support plate, and the 900mhz xeons. So I would ask for considerably more. But that's not likely to happen.

stamasd wrote:

luckybob wrote:

Nice! However i wouldnt let my xg-dls go for anything less than a kings ransom.

Is $365 a king's ransom? That's what a XG-DLS is listed on ebay for. 😀

365! Scratching my head and thinking why that high? That's like the moon's ransom.
Seriously... 365? It's the same stupid pricing as GUS cards. They might be rare
and all that, just not like 365-rare.

For prices asked that high, I will say they can keep their stuff, and I will happily go
for an Intel se440bx-2 and a SB16 CT:2910 instead. Much more fun for each Dollar.

I bought this bunch for a bit less than 1 euro per card. I'm drowning in NICs, but I can't really throw them out! Analogue modems do get binned though, I see no practical use for them...

Wow, nice haul, mate!