JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-08, 14:04:

Getting ready to have some Tualafun with what appears to be the Queen of 440BX boards.
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Which cooler are you using in that picture?

smtkr wrote on 2022-08-09, 03:25:

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-08, 14:04:

Getting ready to have some Tualafun with what appears to be the Queen of 440BX boards.
20220808_155458.jpg
20220808_155451.jpg

Which cooler are you using in that picture?

Looks like this:
https://store.cwc-group.com/jac313c.html
Or this:
https://store.cwc-group.com/so370lowprco.html

Good looking coolers!

Somewhat not-retro given the age of things, but it's something that exists for the sake of easier transferring of files to retro, so I digress. I spent today working, and installing a combination of OSX 10.4 and 10.6.8 on my recently bought Mac Mini 2007. The former is for writing directly to SD cards running HFS, and the latter for nostalgia, and practical use. It's easier to get things for snow leopard on intel than it is to do the same for tiger, which has a lot of PPC love.

Testing out a MX4000 with a 128bit memory bus, I didn't think this card ever came out with a bus bigger than 64bit but this card does in fact have a 128bit bus along with being PCI, quite an interesting little card its going back into storage till I have a system to dedicate to it for some benchmarks.

smtkr wrote on 2022-08-09, 03:25:

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-08, 14:04:

Getting ready to have some Tualafun with what appears to be the Queen of 440BX boards.
20220808_155458.jpg
20220808_155451.jpg

Which cooler are you using in that picture?

I didn't know before bofh.fromhell's link but it was in an IBM SurePOS 4810-340 cooling a Via C3 1.2GHz.

bofh.fromhell wrote on 2022-08-09, 04:32:

Looks like this: https://store.cwc-group.com/jac313c.html Or this: https://store.cwc-group.com/so370lowprco.html […]
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smtkr wrote on 2022-08-09, 03:25:

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-08, 14:04:

Getting ready to have some Tualafun with what appears to be the Queen of 440BX boards.
20220808_155458.jpg
20220808_155451.jpg

Which cooler are you using in that picture?

Looks like this:
https://store.cwc-group.com/jac313c.html
Or this:
https://store.cwc-group.com/so370lowprco.html

Good looking coolers!

Nice ! I knew that supplier (and they never replied me about shipping outside the US...) but I never checked their coolers. I choosed this one among my stock because it looks gorgeous whereas I want to push the Tualatin quite far. Might be challenging, that's why I will delid it. Another comparable competitor was Evercool's copper one (with a fan of course).

I got convinced by the very thick copper base and the looks (the black part gives it a nice finished look).

Downgraded my 1996-1998 build from a Slot-1 PIII-500 to a more era appropriate SS7 K6-2/400. That will probably be enough to max the Voodoo Banshee at 800x600 anyhow.

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-08, 14:04:

Getting ready to have some Tualafun with what appears to be the Queen of 440BX boards.
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Ah, EPOX! My beloved brand in a pretty green color... That copper cooler suits her.

Ydee wrote on 2022-08-09, 12:04:

JustJulião wrote on 2022-08-08, 14:04:

Getting ready to have some Tualafun with what appears to be the Queen of 440BX boards.
20220808_155458.jpg
20220808_155451.jpg

Ah, EPOX! My beloved brand in a pretty green color... That copper cooler suits her.

Love it too. Underated IMO although prices on eBay tend to make me wrong.

When things got a little slow, I decided to re-write the entire GEM Computer Products/Micro Equip. Corp. (MEC)/C.MORE information page on my neocities site. I've been toying for a long time on doing big pages on vintage "white box" PC systems and their various regional manufacturers. It's just something I've always found interesting. Seems these guys were somewhere between "Compaq" and that little computer shop downtown that sold AMD DX4s with PC Chips M912 motherboards in them for $999. I was quite surprised to find out about them having a presence in California and Salt Lake City in the early 90's.....seems they could have joined the ranks of the Gang of Nine if they had had just a little more success.

Sorting soundcards into new bins. Should have gotten more bins then two...
Right box Aztech, left box anything else (Creative Live! cards and Ensoniq Audio PCI will get a seperate bin).

DerBaum wrote on 2022-08-09, 23:52:

Sorting soundcards into new bins. Should have gotten more bins then two...
Right box Aztech, left box anything else (Creative Live! cards and Ensoniq Audio PCI will get a seperate bin).
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Show us your Ultrasound bin 😀

Fellow owners of hundreds of GPUs: Does anybody have a source for good, sturdys boxes that are about the right size for graphics cards? I need around 200.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-08-10, 03:15:

Fellow owners of hundreds of GPUs: Does anybody have a source for good, sturdys boxes that are about the right size for graphics cards? I need around 200.

I think you need more than boxes here.

Your gonna need boxes to store the boxes for the GPUs.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-08-10, 03:15:

Fellow owners of hundreds of GPUs: Does anybody have a source for good, sturdys boxes that are about the right size for graphics cards? I need around 200.

I think these are for sorting letters.

Sorting out software and hardware closer to the stage when I will start inventorying them. I've given my self until January next year to put the items on a spreadsheet.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-08-10, 03:15:

Fellow owners of hundreds of GPUs: Does anybody have a source for good, sturdys boxes that are about the right size for graphics cards? I need around 200.

I put them in cut-to-form anti-static bags with labels and pack these into stackable plastic bins. I leave the end of the I/O shield outside of the bag to make optimal use of bin space and so that it's easier to see what ports are available while browsing.

pan069 wrote on 2022-08-10, 02:43:

Show us your Ultrasound bin 😀

Im not interested in the overpriced rare ones. I like the cheap janky offbrand cards that nobody cares for.
I will never in my life pay hundreds of euros for a card that i have no connection to.

Where is the fun to already know how it will sound and that it works perfectly?
Each one of these cards sound slightly different, and it is real joy to figure them out...

What i can show you is this:

This is probably the most interesting and expensive (30 €) soundcard i own.
It is a Aztech Sound Galaxy NX II (MMSD801) .
Its the first card of Aztech using the "new" style of FCC ids. But it doesnt use "MMSN" prefix like all other Aztech cards (ecxept of one other card).
It is also the last card of Aztech using a OPL2 (Yamaha YM3812).
It supports Soundblaster, Adlib, Covox Speech thing and Disney Sound source.
And it looks pretty good with all the smd resistors lining up in rows.

I have the NX Pro and NX Pro 16 variants (the NX Pro was free and the NX Pro 16 was about $76 NIB) and they're both amazing. If I can find a SCSI drive addon for the card, I might get a schematic done and make new ones. However, they are unicorns and hard to find.

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-08-10, 05:17:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-08-10, 03:15:

Fellow owners of hundreds of GPUs: Does anybody have a source for good, sturdys boxes that are about the right size for graphics cards? I need around 200.

I think these are for sorting letters.

This image gives me nightmares about missing Surface Mount Devices on those boards. I'm pretty meticulous about my GPU storage, I put them into an anti static shield bag (the silver metallic type), then into a pink anti static bag, then into a container. What I don't have are small boxes to put them in so I can fit 10+ of those boxes into a larger box and get some sort of organizational system going. As it stands, they spread out all over. I found 5 GPUs in a box that I forgot I even owned the other day.

Haha VOGONS would have a heart attack if I shared photos of my hardware stacked inside plastic crates with absolutely no protection. I mean, I would get boxes and bags for all, but then I would need twice or thrice the storage space, and I don't have that.