Got another ATI Radeon 9800 pro today.
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I am green with envy about those IBM units. If I had the money to ship those to the US, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed 😎
Seems to be a dual-Socket 5/7 EISA AT board. Looks really interesting.
Dont know about the cards, seems to be some network/graphics combo.
Fancy, especially those video/network cards.
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Actually it's the dual pentium board I'd be more excited about.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
It also looks like it was a server board at one point in time (NT, perhaps)?
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wrote:It also looks like it was a server board at one point in time (NT, perhaps)?
Yes, NT as none of the W9x versions of the epoch would work with dual CPUs. Or Unix of some sort.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
Nice haul! Please make another detailed post at some point with pictures + specs.
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wrote:Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed :cool: […]
Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed 😎
Seems to be a dual-Socket 5/7 EISA AT board. Looks really interesting.
Dont know about the cards, seems to be some network/graphics combo.
Those cards look like some dedicated video conferencing stuff.
As for the board, it's dual So5 with i430NX chipset. Slow as hell, FPM memory only, but supports 256MB and can cache all of it (slowly). EISA is always nice though - but all in all this is mainly a curiosity, not a practical machine, even by retro standards. The only sensible use case is if you have some multi-threaded processes, or multi-process workloads, that need an x86 (in these days, Sparc, Mips & Alpha could run rings around a Pentium) and like WinNT. So basically, if you want to run an early IIS webserver (if so: masochist!), this is your machine 😉
That said, for EUR 20 I'd take it too 😜
If he was going to throw it all in the trash anyways, why didn't he just give it to you for free, seeing as at least it'll be going to a good home.. $180 isn't bad, but still.
wrote:So I was suppose to get a p4 and a pentium, but I asked the guy why are you selling? He said I am going to throw it anyway but didn’t have time to sell more, so I asked if I can take what he was throwing? And the answer was yes... so I ended up with two ibm pentium pro servers and a dell desktop pentium pro, everything for around $180
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Sure it's EISA? Looks like some kind of Asus Media Bus slots to me but I might be wrong.
wrote:Sure it's EISA? Looks like some kind of Asus Media Bus slots to me but I might be wrong.
It's EISA. The ASUS Media Bus slot was common on some of the boards (the slot that's at a PCI slot) for multimedia cards (sound card, video, and, in most cases, networking). The EISA and PCI have one thing in common: the bus runs at 32-bit.
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wrote:Saw this in an overpriced scrap pile and asked the seller to sell it for 20€ separately...he agreed 😎
Seems to be a dual-Socket 5/7 EISA AT board. Looks really interesting.Dont know about the cards, seems to be some network/graphics combo.
The cards are remote access cards for servers, like a Dell DRAC (remote access card) or HP iLO from around 2003, the ATI mobility radeon chips give it away. They're embedded computers for remote access / power cycling of the server they're attached to.
Here you go
Very cool board, I havent seen many dual socket 7 boards
Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals.
Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!
... ATX case? SLEEPER PC BUILD!
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wrote:Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals.
Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!
That monitor is a great find!
wrote:Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!
Holy smokes look at the geometry on that thing! Beautiful 😎
Life? Don't talk to me about life.
love all the straight lines and angles on this! super clean
wrote:Picked this up yesterday. Its a Viglen Contender 2 650. Tower, 17" Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse and All manuals.
Its a Pentium III 650 (100mhz) On a MSI 6119 1.6 BX board, 256mb ram, Geforce 256 SDR card, SB Live. Its in excellent contition for its age! Really glad to have got the 17" Trinitron Monitor with it also!
I have no clue what I'm doing! If you want to watch me fumble through all my retro projects, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDavejustdave
I haven't done SLI since the time i had a pair of 8800GTs!
I have no clue what I'm doing! If you want to watch me fumble through all my retro projects, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDavejustdave
wrote:I haven't done SLI since the time i had a pair of 8800GTs!
Never had Voodoo and last week did my first SLI 😀 2x CT6670
My retro collection: too much...
