Did get some "new" stuff lately. Saw a couple interesting PCI sound cards made by Philips: PSC60X Series, PDNI-AOX-V112.
Had absolutely no idea what these were, both seemed to be NOS and still sealed. €5 each and after a bit of consideration I decided to get both of them. I'll hunt for drivers later.
Also got 2 cheap old rigs, both a bit of a gamble. One was more a gamble as I saw it was an office computer which had its RAM upgraded at some time with 2 memory modules with heatspreaders. I couldn't open it up inside the shop without people noticing and for €15 I decided to take a gamble. Turned out to be GEIL DDR-400 cl2.5 modules...of 256MB each 😵 (wth?). Why would they even make such modules? 🤣
Well, maybe for some 9x rig or something. Also the harddrive was missing and the CPU turned out to be a Pentium 4 s775 630 with 2MB cache. The internet told me it's some extreme edition but from what the internet told me it was mostly extremely average when compared to a regular Preshot 😵
At least I got a XP Pro OEM sticker along with it (not a royalty OEM, a real "retail" OEM one 🤣).
The other rig I had more luck. Beige tower ATX case for €10 of which I knew it had 4 memory modules and a bridged AGP card and a harddrive.
Harddrive was 80GB IDE, the memory modules were 4x512MB (mixed something like 3xDDR-400 and 1xDDR-333 🤣). The PSU I thought was crap, but it turned out to be some 350W Enermax with good 5v and 12v rails. Not bad 😀
And of all bridged AGP cards I could find, it turned out to be an X1650 🤣, I guess I'll throw this one in a Win7 rig or something to avoid any driver mess.
CPU was a 533MHz FSB 2.5-ish GHz Northwood with more TIM on the IHS than a standard slice of bread would've gotten peanutbutter. And a couple extra IDE optical drives are nice I guess.
The motherboard is a Chaintech i865-ish something, but I haven't found the model number yet (will probably do after I disassembled and cleaned it). Black PCB, blue PCI slots and the io ports have a gold-colored coat on the inside. Also got blue chaintech rounded IDE cables which I presume came with the original board.
The beige (and a bit of grey) case has a case badge "Apogee. Powered by Chaintech". Northbridge heatsink is a rounded passive one without any markings on it.