Yeah, what a score 😀

CRT envy, my faithful constant companion.

I picked up a Voodoo 3500 TV a few weeks back for £15. It was listed as a Samsung TV card but I instantly recognised the photo so snapped it up. Unfortunately it didn't come with the TV/VGA cable so I had no way of testing it.

As luck would have it, a cable showed up on ebay the other week which I managed to get for £10. Tested the card this morning, and happy to report it all works great.

Nice score. That's the card with the DVI connector which isn't DVI right? 😉

Bought 3 Asus v9950 128mb cards. And 11 7800gt and 7 7900gs. But those are PCIe so not so excited about those. I got the lot for getting the fx5900's 😊

how much did you paid for those?

SVD wrote on 2021-01-04, 15:04:

Bought 3 Asus v9950 128mb cards. And 11 7800gt and 7 7900gs. But those are PCIe so not so excited about those. I got the lot for getting the fx5900's 😊

Holy SMOKES!!! - unreal loot! 😁

winuser_pl wrote on 2021-01-04, 16:20:

how much did you paid for those?

1200 NOK or about 140 USD 😊
I dont know what to do about all the 7800/7900's tho 😅

SVD wrote on 2021-01-04, 17:32:

winuser_pl wrote on 2021-01-04, 16:20:

how much did you paid for those?

I dont know what to do about all the 7800/7900's tho 😅

That's a great price.

I'd keep them and stash them away somewhere. No one is seeking them out right now, so it's not going to hurt anything. They'll be, inexplicably, worth $100 a piece in a few years, even though they bring nothing special to retro gaming. Or wait 10 years and they'll be worth $200... for no logical reason.

If there's some way to force them to work in Windows 9x, even if the drivers make most games unplayable, they will be valuable once a few people make youtube videos showing some game from 1999 running at 2500fps on a modern system with a Geforce 7 series for "compatibility". This is how the hobby works now for some reason. 🤣

Got a pretty great score with one winner in particular from my recycler contact =) No Medusa cable was in sight unfortunately. Also got an (not pictured) Gigabyte GA-5AA.

Bought a new in sealed box beige IDE CDRW from 2001/2002 from a local store for $5. The ECS AL486 motherboard bought a few weeks ago with manual and AMD cpu arrived today, works just fine.
Paid too much but wanted one more 3.3v/5v VLB 486 board that was tested/no on board barrel battery/etc to add to my collection 😀

Horun wrote on 2021-01-05, 04:56:

The ECS AL486 motherboard bought a few weeks ago with manual and AMD cpu arrived today, works just fine.
Paid too much but wanted one more 3.3v/5v VLB 486 board that was tested/no on board barrel battery/etc to add to my collection 😀

So glad to hear that! I'd be curious to know if it's 100% identical to the 1.0 I have, aside from all the silk screening they remembered to do on the 1.1. 😀

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2021-01-02, 02:00:

Godlike wrote on 2021-01-01, 21:16:

Grzyb wrote on 2019-10-17, 05:47:

ARK1000? Impressive?
Can't see anything interesting about that chipset, just yet another dumb framebuffer.
And in the VLB era, there was plenty of cards with Cirrus Logic 5426/5428/5429 chips, ie. accelerated.

That's the fastest VLB card I presume, even faster than tseng et4000w32p.

You just corrected a 14 month old post. 🤣

Yes. This forum is about retro computer hardware - does it make any difference? 😂

Show some Photo of this drive.

Horun wrote on 2021-01-05, 04:56:

Bought a new in sealed box beige IDE CDRW from 2001/2002 from a local store for $5. The ECS AL486 motherboard bought a few weeks ago with manual and AMD cpu arrived today, works just fine.
Paid too much but wanted one more 3.3v/5v VLB 486 board that was tested/no on board barrel battery/etc to add to my collection 😀

😀

Good looking AT-case with PS and floppy drive
Gigabyte GA-586T2 (430TX) and Soyo 5EAS (VIA VPX)
Matrox Millennium 4MB + 2MB + 2MB Compaq
3x proper CD-ROM drives and 2x IDE HDD
72-pin SIMM lot: 4 pairs of 32MB FPM + 4 pairs of 32MB EDO + 6 pairs of 16MB EDO + some single 32MB = about 800 MB. Should be enough 😀

With unknown functionality... and sorry for blurry pictures.
Update: At least this Gigabyte is dead.

Predator99 wrote on 2021-01-05, 16:59:

😀
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Beautiful card! I really like those blue wire wrappings 😀

fool wrote on 2021-01-05, 17:00:

Gigabyte GA-586T2 (430TX) and Soyo 5EAS (VIA VPX)

I have the same Gigabyte board. It's very good, I like it a lot, but the CPU socket is just at the worst place possible.
I wanted to use it for a Voodoo+Matrox Milllennium combo, but only one of the PCI slots could take a card that long. I had to go and find a short enough Mystique.

fool wrote on 2021-01-05, 17:00:

Gigabyte GA-586T2 (430TX)

I bought one of them last night for $20. It's untested, and it won't reach me for a while, but it'll be my only TX board.

I have also GA-586TX2, differences seems to be minimal. At least T2 has 75 FSB while TX2 maxes at 66.
When I was young we had 586T2+233MMX which has been recycled long time ago. Now I have found exactly the same new boxed case and ready to build a replica.