I posted today but since that I received another two packages with more computer parts. 😁

Seller photos so don't judge me for the red carpet (not sure if it's really carpet, but better safe than sorry)

From this set I really enjoy:

• Diamond Multimedia Voodoo 2 8 MB - I need to test it but chip legs and board itself looks great, so it should work!
• ECS P6S5AT - yeah, ECS, but: SiS 635T chipset, I think it's the best one for Socket 370 due to benchmarks, OC possibilities and flexibility. I have received two identical motherboards, sadly one has broken chipset by screwdriver. I think that previous owner really wanted the heatsink 😔Hopefully second one will work great after recap.
• Asus CUSL2-E - i815E S370
• Asus A7N8X - nForce 2 Socket A
• PCChips BXPro PC100 - hell yeah, I just wanted to have this crap to build some PC parody. Anyway I have thesis that after recap and staying with FSB 66 this one can be stable, need to check.
• ESS Audiodrive ISA sound card- just love how good that card is, so the more I have the better
• Celeron 1100 - not the best CPU for S370, but come on it's Tualatin

I think I haven't posted here in a while. There's been a few updates, though. Here are a few new parts I got:

First, an A-Trend ATG-2476P, a Voodoo Rush.

Kind of an ugly duckling in the 3DFX family, but I always wanted one and managed to get it for cheap. I am curious whether it is indeed faster than a regular V1 on low-end CPUs. So far I've seen a 1 FPS difference in glQuake on an AMD 5x86@160. Going to be interesting once I find a Pentium Overdrive for a Socket 3.

Next, an Ark Logic ARK2000PV.

I was really impressed by DOS performance of ARK1000VL, so I wanted to get the PCI version.

Next, a Logitech Cyberman...

...a Logitech Cyberman 2...

...and a SpaceOrb 360

Got these from three different sellers. Had them bookmarked for months, they were cheap, and I was kind of curious. Especially about the original Cyberman with its force feedback feature.

nice @seleryba, was there a picture of the backside of the voodoo2? who knows, could be a 12MB 😁

got myself an Intel Hendrix socket 4 board, my very first socket 4 and I think I have at least one board of every "normal" socket now

imi wrote on 2020-06-12, 22:35:

nice @seleryba, was there a picture of the backside of the voodoo2? who knows, could be a 12MB 😁

I really thought that before I received the package 😁 Sadly, the sticker and VRAM on the back clearly says: it's 8.
There are pads on the PCB, so maybe I can solder in four more chips. I can test it some day, but I need to find some 100 MHz ones to match the others.

Love that yours Intel motherboard's design BTW. Very cool Rush @jheronimus.

So few days ago friend found this machine in some FB group. People were offering this guy stupid prices (like 20-30 Euro) and I immediately noticed something on the bottom of the case which gave me a huge nerdly b*ner 😉))
I PMed the guy with much more reasonable price (still very, very good, but I couldn't offer more because it was very dirty, and high risk it won't be working)... 5 minutes later the guy called... anyway... this machine arrived today...

Motherboard was too far gone, which we could see on the pics, I attempted a repair, but it was too hard (too many very delicate traces corroded, so I just removed cache, and other stuff from the motherboard).

Fortunatelly the CT1320 and graphics adapter works fine. Even the potentiometer on the Sound Blaster is smooth. PSU is OK, I don't know about disk controller and the rest of the parts, but this stuff is going to guy who showed me the add - let's say it's a finder's fee...

Also I previously had Miro 8S VL, and now I have Miro 20SD VL 😁

nice 😁

luckily the IO card was all the way on top shielding the others from the battery gunk ^^

@HanJammer a Kolani big tower, wow! I think you can find matching 5.25 drives, it's going to look really great!

imi wrote on 2020-06-12, 22:56:

nice 😁

luckily the IO card was all the way on top shielding the others from the battery gunk ^^

Yeah, the graphics adapter and sound card got some of the leakage on the goldfingers but they are all right...

jheronimus wrote on 2020-06-12, 23:09:

@HanJammer a Kolani big tower, wow! I think you can find matching 5.25 drives, it's going to look really great!

I have two different Colani towers, both are not 100% complete, and both are going to a friend I mentioned, hopefully he will do something cool with them 😀

Nice SB card !
added: yes I just realized had posted in wrong thread... been a long week.

The SB is nice but that tower case is the real catch AFAIC..

I bid on and won the ARK1000PV (on carpet no less) card for a reasonably cheap price.

I just threw a big bid on it a week ago and the snipers didn't stand a chance!

appiah4 wrote on 2020-06-13, 08:18:

The SB is nice but that tower case is the real catch AFAIC..

I think the S3 Vision 864 is a pretty damn good catch too. Those VLB cards are not very common.

the míro cards are also really pretty 😀

Perhaps not the most exciting find ever, but for almost nothing it's basically ok 😀

The two lower ones match perfectly with almost any Pentium 2 without onboard sound.

canthearu wrote on 2020-06-13, 10:38:

appiah4 wrote on 2020-06-13, 08:18:

The SB is nice but that tower case is the real catch AFAIC..

I think the S3 Vision 864 is a pretty damn good catch too. Those VLB cards are not very common.

964 and 968 are hi end. 864 is a slightly lower in performance.
I have them all tested on my vlb Dx2.

What's wrong with carpets? I thought we are all children of the 80's 😉

E S D

PS2 mouse from 2000s. Works great in Windows 3.11, better than emulated gaming USB mouse which has tendency to `jump`.

imi wrote on 2020-06-13, 14:22:

E S D

Yeah, carpet is good at generating Static electricity and bad at dissipating it.

Should not be used to store components on.

I don't think it really is that big a deal for a quick photo shot, but it is better to keep the components in their antistatic bags (and not on carpet)

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-06-11, 09:14:

Try using UNIVBE.

Thanks for suggesting this! Duke3d is now VERY playable at 640x480. The frame rate is also a bit better in System Shock. Blood is still slightly below playable at 640x480, but I know that game is more demanding than Duke 3D.