I have a very similar card thanks to Liqmat, and I have a very similar 909 chip on my ePay watch list.

I might just have an excuse to get 2 chips now...

bestemor wrote on 2020-06-24, 14:32:

listing/item number on our favourite 'you-know-where' site... 🙂 […]
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listing/item number on our favourite 'you-know-where' site... 🙂

Granted, this is the 909 version (but only difference is the slightly larger MB size), and there are conflicting stories about whether these can be mixed with 908's, but better than nothing perhaps ?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp. … deo/NXeKSCcY5rw
https://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/tseng12.html

PS: and here's a card that uses only MD909's:
http://www.vgamuseum.info/images/vlask/tseng/et6000f.jpg

Aaand... finally, an example card that mixes BOTH types/memory sizes !
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common … e/ec/ET6100.JPG
Sure, this is the ET6100 card, but looks promising though....

Unfortunately my ‘you-know-where’ sites don’t return a hit searching for that number (maybe location dependent) but thanks a lot for the information about mixing the 908 and 909 types. Searching for these do show some results... probably going to try.

That was weird... but perhaps your location theory is correct.

Try changing the .com part to whatever country code perhaps (not all will work, but some)...?
co.uk
de
fr
it
es

...etc (assuming you live in Europe)

Worst case, just write www.XXXX.com/itm/274047495303 .... 😁
(replace the X'es of course, with those other dearly beloved 4 letters !)

bestemor wrote on 2020-06-24, 17:06:

That was weird... but perhaps your location theory is correct. […]
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That was weird... but perhaps your location theory is correct.

Try changing the .com part to whatever country code perhaps (not all will work, but some)...?
co.uk
de
fr
it
es

...etc (assuming you live in Europe)

Worst case, just write www.XXXX.com/itm/274047495303 .... 😁
(replace the X'es of course, with those other dearly beloved 4 letters !)

Not all eBay items show up on all eBay locations.

Today I've got my Pentium MMX 200 MHz.

People said that a better FPU has mayor impact on the performace of my Matrox M3D (PowerVR II).
Want to benchmark it against my IDT WinChip W2A 200 MHz under Windows 95 - any suggesttions for reasonable benchmark setup = software/tools/games?

Sure, but since I'm in Europe as well, I figured there should be no problem with this particular item...

Just tested all the countries above, and all work/search fine, so this might be more an issue of the 'ship-to' location that is chosen ?

If I get zero hits I usually then change that setting to either USA or some other 'large' location(or local seller country), and then it suddenly pops up... Really annoying though, and took me years to figure out why the randomly advertised items on other listings vanished when I tried to search for them or click on the pictured link....

Some not-so-interesting items arrived today... tested, works fine. Motherboards along with original cables and brackets...
I'm not quite sure about the bracket on the Diamond card - doesn't seem original to me, yet somehow I doubt anybody was replacing anything in the machine it came with...

That is an interesting bracket on that card.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-24, 19:37:

That is an interesting bracket on that card.

There is a small dautherboard that fits on the card and outputs svideo. the manufacturer just decided to use 1 bracket to save warehouse space.

Oh, and I also just bought this beast: https://www.ebay.com/itm/293572398610

ildonaldo wrote on 2020-06-24, 17:12:

People said that a better FPU has mayor impact on the performace of my Matrox M3D (PowerVR II).
Want to benchmark it against my IDT WinChip W2A 200 MHz under Windows 95 - any suggesttions for reasonable benchmark setup = software/tools/games?

Definitely Unreal. I had one of those cards back when it was new together with a Pentium II 266MHz and the game ran great (in my memory at least).
Ultimate Race Pro also ran OK, but slower than the original demo that only had 1 track. I remember Quake 2 being a bit on the slow side but still playable.

HanJammer wrote on 2020-06-24, 19:09:

Some not-so-interesting items arrived today... tested, works fine. Motherboards along with original cables and brackets...
I'm not quite sure about the bracket on the Diamond card - doesn't seem original to me, yet somehow I doubt anybody was replacing anything in the machine it came with...

I'm pretty sure that bracket is original. I received a Diamond video card similar to that that a few days ago that has a bracket like that on it.

luckybob wrote on 2020-06-24, 19:44:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-24, 19:37:

That is an interesting bracket on that card.

There is a small dautherboard that fits on the card and outputs svideo. the manufacturer just decided to use 1 bracket to save warehouse space.

Oh, and I also just bought this beast: https://www.ebay.com/itm/293572398610

Ah... yes that explains it 😀 I didn't thought about that.

That makes sence to me Luckybob. Also that system you just bought looks sweet. Definitely make a thread about it when you get it.

HanJammer wrote on 2020-06-23, 20:23:

Although performance wise I don't think that there is anything faster than ARK1000 based cards when it comes to 2D only PCI cards (ie. Hercules Stingray Pro)...

As suggested by HanJammer I just bought an Hercules Stingray 64 with an ARK2000PV (shouldn’t be slower than the ARK1000, should it?)

Local pickup for £10

Removable IDE drives that connect via USB?

What sorcery is this?

luckybob wrote on 2020-06-24, 22:10:

Removable IDE drives that connect via USB?

What sorcery is this?

I did not notice that detail!

They were plugged into this:

Certainly not USB 😜

That's a sweet system you got and what a steal of a price too. Have you had a chance to use it?

I bought these 3 years ago, well a friend did. He finally had a chance to visit.

Everything is new old stock. 😀

I sure hope that 5200 is a full on 128-bit "Ultra" card. I don't think they made a 128MB version of the ultra-gimped base 5200 though so you're probably safe.