sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:

This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.

That’s it, my bad. Brilliant and bold piece of Frankenstein engineering from ASRock but I doubt it sold very well. If my A8N32-SLI Deluxe board decides not to wake up next time I fire up my 2008 FX-60 build I might look for one of these…

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:

This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.

I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.

This arrived today for my Pentium 3 project I have going on right now.

Will not use the Celeron 1.2Ghz as I have a Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.4 Ghz incoming.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-09, 13:40:

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:

This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.

I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.

They're an interesting piece of kit, as the board is a CPU and DDR2 upgrade. I've seen them for sale 3-4 times in the past few years but they must have been a novelty back in the day. Have you benched yours against socket 939? Reviews seem to suggest an upgrade from a high spec 939 (Opteron 185) to AM2 wasn't that much.

Got a Hoontech SoundTrack 128 DDMA Gold today, could not find a image like this one so I wanted to share one here:

rare card, I wonder how good it is.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-09, 13:40:

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:

This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.

I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.

If you ever decide you’d sell it, pm me 😁

Got a lot of retro hardware the last couple of months but was missing a absolute crucial part: a gamepad. 😜 Went for an Interact PC Propad 4 and after playing with it a bit I think I like it better then the Gravis Gamepad I had back in the day.

I went to buy an old Celeron rig and I expected a VIA board. To my surprise I got Asus CUBX rev 1.02 Intel 440BX board with it. Visually all capacitors seem to be ok and it boots fine. FSB up to 150Mhz, 4xDIMM, AGP, 6xPCI, 1xISA, 4x IDE connectors (also UDMA-66) and no silly AMR. It has the best BIOS setup I have ever seen on 440BX. It's the best 440BX board I have.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/556/9

JidaiGeki wrote on 2021-08-09, 16:06:

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-09, 13:40:

sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-09, 12:20:

This one is for the socket 939 with an optional am2 upgrade board, but cant find one anywhere unfortunately. Whats cool about this board is that is has an agp 8x and a full bandwidth pcie 16x.

I've got one of those upgrade boards. Not getting rid of it. They come up for sale very rarely.

They're an interesting piece of kit, as the board is a CPU and DDR2 upgrade. I've seen them for sale 3-4 times in the past few years but they must have been a novelty back in the day. Have you benched yours against socket 939? Reviews seem to suggest an upgrade from a high spec 939 (Opteron 185) to AM2 wasn't that much.

I haven't benched it yet though I do have the highest speed AM2, which is the Athlon 64 X2 6400+. The S939 CPU I used to run back in the day and still have is the Opteron 175.

Pretty sure the ASRock board I have is the S754 one so I can't directly compare S939 to AM2. Not sure where I have the motherboard stored right now.

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1Kapok will have a Pentium Pro laptop out soon. The power requirements (double those of a regular pentium) and heat will be major hurdles.

What a novelty that would've been 😀

There were a few newsettes appearing in the mags circa 96-97 announcing PPro laptops "for CAD and engineers" at about $15,000 a pop projected, but I don't know if many made it out to the real world.

Anything with "Pro" in the name commands a high price and is usually over hyped...😉

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-09, 21:44:

There were a few newsettes appearing in the mags circa 96-97 announcing PPro laptops "for CAD and engineers" at about $15,000 a pop projected, but I don't know if many made it out to the real world.

I found one on google. It is exactly what you would expect 😉 https://www.redbubble.com/i/notebook/Intel-Pe … /30156884.WX3NH

Neat, at least that version will be as equally fast at 16bit code as 32bit.

Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133

Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-08-10, 13:18:

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Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133

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Must be huge to fit in a Pizza box......😉

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-10, 17:44:

Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-08-10, 13:18:

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Here is he: Intel Pentium 3 1.400/512/133

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Must be huge to fit in a Pizza box......😉

Hehe

This Chieftec (Antec Clone) tower arrived today, and I'm really impressed by how clean it is! Looks like it was just taken out of the box for the first time. I'll probably use it for a P3 build of some sort. Came with a power supply, CD-ROM drive, floppy drive and a handful of random internal cables.

Brawndo wrote on 2021-08-10, 21:53:

This Chieftec (Antec Clone) tower arrived today, and I'm really impressed by how clean it is! Looks like it was just taken out of the box for the first time.

Well it's gonna be a lot of work but you can fix that and make it look more lived in 🤣 https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/aged-perfec … ievable-patina/