gdjacobs wrote:

rein_ein wrote:

Nice haul,specialty ss7 board.

They're both Socket 7, not super.

I have asus tx-97 and it ss7,i think -e version was same

or it was just compatible...

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yeh my bad

rein_ein wrote:

gdjacobs wrote:

rein_ein wrote:

Nice haul,specialty ss7 board.

They're both Socket 7, not super.

I have asus tx-97 and it ss7,i think -e version was same

or it was just compatible...

It can do 83mhz FSB on a good day and does not support AGP. It's socket 7.

Seagate Barracuda ST15150W: $5.

Going to try & get a Seagate ST-01 for my IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086. 😀

Heads up for anyone interested: there are some nice ATI RAGE 6 DDR cards on Ebay at the moment (aka 1st generation Radeon). I owned one myself back in the days so couldn't resist and immediately bought one again. Will match my NIB RAGE 6 SDR card nicely !

http://www.ebay.de/itm/ATI-Radeon-DDR-7200-Ra … eUAAOSwiCRUk-L1

http://www.ebay.de/itm/ATI-Radeon-Rage-R6-DDR … iQAAOSwEeFU-ZES

AzzKickr wrote:

Heads up for anyone interested...S

This would be the thread you're after: Topic 34088

dexter311 wrote:

AzzKickr wrote:

Heads up for anyone interested...S

This would be the thread you're after: Topic 34088

Ah, you're right. Sorry about that. Got a bit too excited there 😀

got these bits on the way from ebay. Mostly early 3D cards that I have been after for a while, 2 have the infamous RAMBUS memory.

AGP cirrus logic Laguna3D 5465 4mb RDRAM card, one of the last early 3D cards missing from my collection. This particular one is an Idema PT5965.

STB Nitro DVD, Chromatic MPACT2 AGP with RDRAM @ 500MHz!!! Yet another vintage accelerator to tick off the list.

STB Velocity 128, nVidia RIVA 128 AGP card,yet another early card I didn't have and only 99p.

Creative DXR-2 CT7120 DVD deconder card with cables, I use one of these daily so when I saw this one for pennies it was too good to miss.

Finally probably the best bargain, a brand new boxed ASUS Geforce 3 with 3D glasses and all contents for 99p as well!

Loving that Cirrus Laguna card!

Just picked up and brought in lab this little AT PC:

The motherboard is Gigabyte Socket 7-based... unknown clock Pentium, maybe the same I've had before, no coin battery but Dallas RTC mounted and already taken up to check it, compatible S3 Trio 64V+ PCI, US Robotics ISA internal modem, 2x IDE disks (one is the nice Quantum Fireball), all RAM slots filled up and, as I can see, pre-soldered cache on the PCB - 8x CDRom and working (I think) PSU. Case is little but it seems good for the removable motherboard tray, together with the easily removable 2nd IDE drive. Maybe I'll transform this PC in my main pure-DOS machine, but I feel a little unconfortable with SIMMS-only, Dallas RTC instead of coin battery and AT-only PSU: what would you advice to me about? I would like to put inside my AWE64 Gold, adapter CF2IDE, Voodoo I but I must decide how to proceed.

Thats a Gigabyte Intel 430VX board. 😀

There cant be too many AT models of those so it should be easy to identify the exact model, Im just to lazy to do the search. Or you can read the model name in the top right corner of the board! 😎

In any case it seems to be a nice board with a socketed RTC chip, as long as the RTC sits in a socket its nothing to worry about, they are easy to modify. Modifying them while soldered to the board is also doable but a bit more messy.

Here I am: so it's Gigabyte GA-586ATV rev. 1A - I've done some fast research, the CPU has SU097 written on the back, maybe is this one: http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SU/SU097.html: Pentium 75 / 50mhz FSB.

Bought these for $5 ($0.99 + $4.00 shipping) put in minimum bid, no one else bid.. mine. 😁

DDR-500 matched sticks of single-sided DDR-256-MB modules. I'm expecting them to be compatible with my AMD Socket-A nvidia-Pro2 motherboard, which none of my dual-sided modules for ddr-500 work in it.

Using seller's photo from listing, not here yet.. came from some country in bulgaria.

PeterLI wrote:

Seagate Barracuda ST15150W: $5.

Going to try & get a Seagate ST-01 for my IBM PS/2 Model 30 8086. 😀

Any reason you want a real hard drive instead of an sd card? This is one component of which I don't care to relive the retro days.

Indrid Cold wrote:

Just picked up and brought in lab this little AT PC:
The motherboard is Gigabyte Socket 7-based... unknown clock Pentium, maybe the same I've had before, no coin battery but Dallas RTC mounted and already taken up to check it, compatible S3 Trio 64V+ PCI, US Robotics ISA internal modem, 2x IDE disks (one is the nice Quantum Fireball), all RAM slots filled up and, as I can see, pre-soldered cache on the PCB - 8x CDRom and working (I think) PSU. Case is little but it seems good for the removable motherboard tray, together with the easily removable 2nd IDE drive. Maybe I'll transform this PC in my main pure-DOS machine, but I feel a little unconfortable with SIMMS-only, Dallas RTC instead of coin battery and AT-only PSU: what would you advice to me about? I would like to put inside my AWE64 Gold, adapter CF2IDE, Voodoo I but I must decide how to proceed.

Nice pick!! The cpu is a Pentium 75 due to the written specs on its top, easily upgradeable as well (VX boards usually support Pentium MMX & K6 chips).

mmx_91 wrote:

Indrid Cold wrote:

Just picked up and brought in lab this little AT PC:
The motherboard is Gigabyte Socket 7-based... unknown clock Pentium, maybe the same I've had before, no coin battery but Dallas RTC mounted and already taken up to check it, compatible S3 Trio 64V+ PCI, US Robotics ISA internal modem, 2x IDE disks (one is the nice Quantum Fireball), all RAM slots filled up and, as I can see, pre-soldered cache on the PCB - 8x CDRom and working (I think) PSU. Case is little but it seems good for the removable motherboard tray, together with the easily removable 2nd IDE drive. Maybe I'll transform this PC in my main pure-DOS machine, but I feel a little unconfortable with SIMMS-only, Dallas RTC instead of coin battery and AT-only PSU: what would you advice to me about? I would like to put inside my AWE64 Gold, adapter CF2IDE, Voodoo I but I must decide how to proceed.

Nice pick!! The cpu is a Pentium 75 due to the written specs on its top, easily upgradeable as well (VX boards usually support Pentium MMX & K6 chips).

Thanks - for now I'll go leaving AWE64 Gold on my previously used FreeDOS build (i440BX-based), can I ask you which one of these ISA soundcard is better to mount in the 'new' Gigabyte?

The Vibra 16 or the ESS Audio drive, depending on if you prefer Creatives CQM OPL3 emulation or the ESS ESFM synth.

I'd probably go with the ESS, but you might like to do a sound test on the Opti as it has a genuine OPL3.

Interestingly, i just tested a CT4180 Vibra 16C card exactly like yours. It's not being picked up by CTCU at all, and I'm not sure how I can resurrect it. Perhaps a project for a different day.

DDR-500? Damn, didn't even know that existed! Also, I've discovered the sound chip in my titchy little Acer TravelMate 313T is an OPL3 Yamaha chip, which is nice.

Skyscraper wrote:

The Vibra 16 or the ESS Audio drive, depending on if you prefer Creatives CQM OPL3 emulation or the ESS ESFM synth.

Thanks again, I'll follow your advice. In your opinion is a good choice to mount as VGA a Matrox Mystic 220? I've a lot of others VGA to choose from, many S3 (including Vision968), one Voodoo 2D/3D, many Avance Logic and many Cirrus Logic boards... but I remember the good name of this model, if I'm right (and if it's not too overkill maybe for this build).

This one I own:

Both the ESS and the Matrox are great options IMHO. ESS cards generally sounds great - including their OPL3 clone - and are easy set up. And the Mystique 220 is fast and produces a beautiful image.