My last post about retro hardware pickups was... long time ago (it was somewhere in the end of june 2020). And i was doing monthly reports, so this one will be... slightly different. Let's go. 😁
Motherboards:
ASUS CUBX-E
Interesting and somewhat rare S370 mobo. Probably because it's 440BX and built-in UDMA 100 controller.
ASUS SP98AGP-X
Hooo boy, now this is a rare retrohardware. There is some SS7 ATX powerhouses around (like ASUS P5A-B or Gigabyte GA-5AX), they have great performance, they have well-known chipsets, and... they're really expensive (like 3dfx Voodoo cards). This one is not that fascinating performance-wise, but... It's ATX, and it's rare. 😁
Intel TC430HX
Another one S7 ATX mobo. There's also built-in Yamaha sound chip.
Dataexpert EXP8449
White ISA-slots... Beautiful.
FIC VA-503+
With a whopping 1mb of L2 cache.
Tyan Titan Turbo AT-2 S1571
Very interesting motherboard (i mean, 6 SIMM slots in 430TX mobo? Okay, i guess...)
I know that Tyan is a very specific brand that making mobos mostly for workstations and stuff like that.
Videocards:
nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 PCI
It's common knowledge that TNT2 M64 is a thing that can be found everywhere and it's very cheap. But - this works if you talking about AGP version.
PCI version is much more harder to find. And PCI version is definitely not that cheap.
Matrox G450 PCI
Pretty much the same case like with TNT2 M64.
ATi Rage Pro Turbo AGP (ATi All-In-Wonder Pro)
nVidia Riva 128ZX
I hope someday i'll find ASUS version... 😁
And last, but not least, sound:
Trident 4DWave-DX
Woah, sound chip made by Trident? Wait a minute... Okay, i knew about Trident soundcards, so it's not a big surprise for me.
And i also heard that it's not that bad soundchip. Definitely gonna test it (hell, maybe i'll compare it to powerhouses like Vortex 2 or Audigy).
My retro PCs:
ZIDA 5STX, PMMX-166, S3 ViRGE/DX, 3Dfx Voodoo 1, Creative CT4830
AOpen AX-34U, P3-1133, GF 3 Ti200, Aureal Vortex 2
Allround 815EPT, P3-800, ASUS V7700TIvx/32M, Creative SB0220 (my first PC from 2001)
ASUS P3B-F for tests
IBM ThinkPad R31