cyclone3d wrote:

Intel486dx33 wrote:

Artex wrote:

@Intel486dx33
Cool stuff, but maybe try to consolidate into a single post? 😀

I don't recieve everything at once.
I will try to limit my post to once a day in this topic.

Each post will only allow 5 pics if you upload them to the forum. Sometimes it can't be helped.

Ahh gotcha. Didn't realize that.

Finally got a boxed dual pentium pro board to start my Artex-esque collection.

https://imgur.com/a/zJecnR2

yea, I'm starting to become THAT GUY.

Nah... it should be sealed! 😎

Great board btw.

luckybob wrote:

Finally got a boxed dual pentium pro board to start my Artex-esque collection.

https://imgur.com/a/zJecnR2

yea, I'm starting to become THAT GUY.

Nice mobo, I have the Single Pentium Pro board from Iwill and it works really great.
It allows for some overclocking as well, don't know if the dual also has those multiplier and bus options.

Had some nice stuff dropped into work for me last week for free, one of our customers was having a clear out and knew I liked old computers, so dropped this little lot off for me. So we have the 2 monitors, both working 100%, good strong image and colours, first is a hansol 15" from 1998 the other is the Gateway 2000 from 1995, the desktop is a Gateway 2000 pentium 90, 16 MB 72-pin simms, STB S3 Trio64 V2 video, sound blaster 16, mitsumi quad speed CD and a SCSI card, all complete and unmolested inside, still has it's hard disk too and boots fine(850 MB), thankfully it has coin cell battery too so no worries with Dallas chip. The second tower machine is from 1998 and obviously was originally paired with the hansol monitor, it's a bit of an odd beast, it's an AT board with a slot 1 Celeron 333 MHz medocino, chipset is labeled PC 100 BX-Pro, it looks to be PChips M747 board to me, has on board SiS 6326, audio etc. again it's all complete inc the HD with 96 MB RAM and 4.3 GB hard disk, booting fine into Win98 after a new CMOS battery and setup. Also got a KVM with all the cables, keyboards and mice for both and a boxed adaptec SCSI card with driver disks and manual.(passed onto a pal who could use these bits) Not at all bad for free and delivered to the workshop!
I've spent a bit of time with the celly PC chips machine and it has been solid as a rock so far, I think I might have found the a working configuration for these notoriously flaky slot 1 AT boards, the old owner who gave me them said it was always fine and he had no issues at all, and still today it seems just fine. The Gateway need a reinstall, it has a win98 currently on a compressed drive so is painfully slow, the previous owner did this found it was hopeless to use and bought the Celly, so she will be going back to win 95 or maybe even DOS/win 3.11.
Anyhow, a nice little pair of machines and glad they have come to me rather than going to the tip. Both machines also came with good working AT keyboard and PS2 mice, I kept the microsoft one and passed the other to another retro PC pal.

luckybob wrote:

Finally got a boxed dual pentium pro board to start my Artex-esque collection.

https://imgur.com/a/zJecnR2

yea, I'm starting to become THAT GUY.

Yaaaas! 😎

BSA Starfire wrote:

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Anyhow, a nice little pair of machines and glad they have come to me rather than going to the tip. Both machines also came with good working AT keyboard and PS2 mice, I kept the microsoft one and passed the other to another retro PC pal.

Very nice indeed, much better in your hands! I remember that old Gateway monitor, is it a 17"? We had one in 96, part of a Pentium 166 setup. Now all you need is some Altec Lansing speakers and you'll have the full setup 😎

Thanks, it's a 15 inch as typical from 1995, glad to have two working CRT's dropped in my lap however and they are easier to find homes for.

Lian Li Aluminum case.
This box must weight about 5lb and that’s mostly the packaging, The case only weights about 3lbs. It is ridiculously light for a PC case.
That's why I like these Cases, They are light and precise. Good engineering.
Everything just fits nice and snug.

This isn't new, but just detailed pics of the motherboard and cards that came in that rack mount wave soldering computer I posted in here a while ago.

Motherboard is a Tyan S1564. Apparently there was an option for it to have dual CPUs. The Dallas chip is socketed.

The Red comtrol card is an 8-port serial card.
The AVED card ( AV550-LVDS ) Is a video card that is also a controller for I think a touch screen LVDS flatscreen display. I didn't really find exact specs on this model, but did find some info on a newer model.

Pretty much useless to me.

BSA Starfire

I have a Gatway 2000 like this that I am trying to restore but it is a 486/33
The bios is a nightmare to work with. I don't know that it is worth reviving because it is really heavy and loud.
Make sure you put a fresh battery in it before you try to set it up.
A bad battery can cause all kinds of problems.

I got a HETIS 865GV-E with celeron 2.8GHz
https://www.msi.com/Desktop/Hetis_865GVE__Het … E_Lite/Overview

Intel486dx33 wrote:

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Get them while they lasts !

These Socket 755 Gigabyte motherboards are selling for $35 NEW on AliExpress.com

FREE shipping to USA and $4 discount on purchase over $20.

These are great for Windows-XP Retro gaming build with PCI slots, PCIe graphics and DDR3 ram, USB 2.0 and Sata 3gb.

Over clock-able bios support too. Intel Core-2-Quad support.

Hey, these are all sold out last I searched, But there is another good model with lots of PCI slots for all your sound cards.
These Gigabyte motherboards are really easy to setup and they support large hard-drives, 8gb ram and Win98se/2000/ME/XP/Win7 and up to Win-10.

For only $30
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-Asus-P5P4 … 810655498.html?

Asus P5P41T

ok, not today, but the saga continues here 😀
Socket 775 @ 2006.11 - Core 2 Extreme QX6700, Geforce 8800 GTX, Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

Asus P5W DH Deluxe Intel 975X
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 SL9UL
Zalman CNPS9500 AT
Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 1G 2x
Asus EN8800GTX 768M PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty SB0460 PCI

LGA775 mainboards, Core 2 Extreme CPU's and 8800GTX GPU's are considered to be retro already?
Wow, time flies. 😀

Nobody definied, what is retro 😀 they are 12 years old. When they were new, a 12 years old config was a 486 from 1994. Was a 486 config retro in 2006?

arncht wrote:

Nobody definied, what is retro 😀 they are 12 years old. When they were new, a 12 years old config was a 486 from 1994. Was a 486 config retro in 2006?

I think people like working with old components when they work. Gaming enthusiasts and audiophile just want a good computer that works.
I think a P3 / P4 or socket 775 motherboard computers are really easy to setup and reliable and P3 motherboards work with ISA/PCI/AGP cards.
Windows XP plays both old and NEW games. And works with old components and drivers.

arncht wrote:

Nobody definied, what is retro 😀 they are 12 years old. When they were new, a 12 years old config was a 486 from 1994. Was a 486 config retro in 2006?

Well, in terms of IBM home computing (PS/1, 1980) we have to take into consideration, that our hobby covers a timespan of more or less 40 years. The further we progress from the starting point 1980 the less impressive 12 years of time difference become. 12 years in the beginning phase were packed with more innovations and technological progress than nowadays. Let's just take it a little further and assume we have the year 2050. Is 12 year old hardware really that retro then? I'm not entirely sold on that. Besides, I was under the impression that we have a thread for (rather) modern hardware.

Age plays a large part in what people consider retro. For a 20 year old 2006 was a lifetime ago, not so much for people in their 30s and up.

Personally I just consider anything older than a decade retro; it's just easier that way :p

Duouk2000 wrote:

Personally I just consider anything older than a decade retro; it's just easier that way :p

The more I think about it the more I like it. Seems to be a good definition. 😉

Peace!