I installed a heatsink fan on my old GeForce4 MX4000 PCI card since the old heatsink broke off. The card worked without the heatsink on there, which was odd, yet no artifacts. Parted it since the RAM was starting to flake out and the PCI pins were in rough shape.

appiah4 wrote:

Is it AGP? PCI versions of the 7500 were ised in Alpha hardware for many years I believe. I have a 7500 PCI from an Alpha workstation, it's also a late manufacture.

OTOH I never heard of a purple 7500, can you post photos?

Well, 2 photos are attached to my post, aren't they showing up? It is AGP, and it wasnt in a workstation, just some generic pentium 4 pc some guy was parting out and giving away some of the parts for free

God Of Gaming wrote:

seems to be made in 2005, but its a 2001 model, why were they still making them in 2005?

That's not too uncommon for cards chosen by OEMs. I have some Matrox G200 OEM cards made in 2003 - 5 years after the G200 was released.

Purple ATI cards were not that uncommon either. The original All-in-Wonder X800 XT was purple as well (see here for example), so were some others. This shows a purple 7500 as well: https://www.kupindo.com/Graficke-kartice/5427 … N-7500-dual-vga

Picked up a matched pair of 1.4ghz Tualatin Pentium 3's. One serial number apart in production codes out of a dead Compaq 1U server. Also got the 4x1gb sticks of ECC PC133 for my dual Pentium 3 machine. Doesn't really need the upgrades but eh why not? Also a free stack of 2gb sticks DDR2 800 ram.
Non-Retro was more interesting. Pair of 2gb 750ti's, Q9505 cpu, i5-760 based Dell XPS, complete system. Everything super useful for various systems for people I know or myself in the P3 stuff.

imi....where do you have been? 🤣

RAM-day today. Think 50€ is quite OK for this. I see many 30-PIN modules which are not easy to get for cheap...

sellers pic:

Got some graphic cards from a guy, who collects precious metals from them. He accepted my offer, so I bought them from him. One of the cards didn't make it however (see picture). Luckily some of them were left intact, others are missing heatsinks and fans. Are there any highlights among them? I am thinking of buying aftermarket heatsinks for the cards that are worth saving. Which one of the missing heatsink cards diserve another chance 😀 ?

One of them looks like a 9000 series ATI AIW card, thats it AFAIC..

The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators

Creative 3D Blaster Geforce 2 MX200 PCI

Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo Graphics PCI (this was my first graphics card, so a very welcome addition to the collection)

Creative Graphics Blaster EXXTREME 3Dlabs Permedia 2 PCI

Videologic Apocalypse 3D PowerVR PCX1 PCI (Very excited about this one, just recently learned about this card)

ALL-in-Wonder ATI Rage 128 PRO AGP

Colormaster Voodoomania Voodoo Graphics PCI (need to source the card)

Matrox Mystique 220 PCI (need to source manual and cds)

ASUS V8420S Geforce 4 TI4200 factory overclocked AGP

ASUS V8420S Geforce 4 TI4200 factory overclocked AGP

ASUS V3800 RIVA TNT AGP

ATI Graphics (big chip says mach64) PCI

Matrox Millennium G400 AGP

ASUS 3DP-V264GT/PRO ATI Rage II+DVD PCI

Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo Graphics PCI

Creative 3D Blaster Banshee AGP

I had a good time looking at these, hope you will too. Have a nice day

Skanque wrote:

ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Mach32 PCI https://i.ibb.co/g4cjb9h/IMG-8477.jpg […]
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ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Mach32 PCI

The big chip says Mach 64

Skanque wrote:

Creative 3D Blaster Banshee PCI https://i.ibb.co/3SCyVG9/IMG-8487.jpg […]
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Creative 3D Blaster Banshee PCI

This is not a PCI card 🤣

Skanque wrote:

The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators ...

Were you successful at reviving the broken GF4 Ti?

Skanque wrote:

The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators

some nice cards I have a few of those, what cards are you hunting for?

I was browsing on eBay and something caught my eye, something that I've never really had a lot of interest in seeking before, but decided on a whim to go ahead and bid for and win - a Sinclair ZX81!

The seller's picture was a little blurry, but it looks practically the same as the image above, with the same white addon keyboard, albeit the ZX81 logo is not red.

I'll look out for the 16K RAM expansion soon, might get one for Christmas.

But this is now officially the lowest specced, least capable computer system I own. Well, something had to fulfil that role and I'd rather it be this. 🤣

Warlord wrote:

Skanque wrote:

The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators

some nice cards I have a few of those, what cards are you hunting for?

I am looking for Rendition Vérité and S3 Virge version that match the others being 4mb and from 96-97. I prefer boxed version. Also Ati Rage II+ or II+DVD in box.

SSTV2 wrote:

Skanque wrote:

The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators ...

Were you successful at reviving the broken GF4 Ti?

I haven't gotten around to that yet.

ShovelKnight wrote:

Skanque wrote:

Translation: "You are doing it wrong.."

Noted ill correct it.

gl with new in box... I got my rendition for 5 dollars same with virge, they don't have boxes though. I am not that kind of collector though, I have working collection that can be used.

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The hunt continues, this time the main focus have been on early 3D accelerators

AUS 3DP-V264GT/PRO ATI Rage II+DVD PCI

Ahhhh.. I have been looking for this card for soo long... Lucky you...

PTherapist wrote:

I was browsing on eBay and something caught my eye, something that I've never really had a lot of interest in seeking before, bu […]
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I was browsing on eBay and something caught my eye, something that I've never really had a lot of interest in seeking before, but decided on a whim to go ahead and bid for and win - a Sinclair ZX81!

The seller's picture was a little blurry, but it looks practically the same as the image above, with the same white addon keyboard, albeit the ZX81 logo is not red.

I'll look out for the 16K RAM expansion soon, might get one for Christmas.

But this is now officially the lowest specced, least capable computer system I own. Well, something had to fulfil that role and I'd rather it be this. 🤣

Ancient memories... that beast was terribly slow and limited when I had it - with 16MB RAM pacl - as a schoolboy back in the early 1980s. And it had possibly the only keyboard worse than the current MacBook range. Even with prosthetic keyboard like this it was painful. But it was the first computer <100GBP and for that alone worthy of its place in history.

dionb wrote:

PTherapist wrote:

I was browsing on eBay and something caught my eye, something that I've never really had a lot of interest in seeking before, bu […]
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I was browsing on eBay and something caught my eye, something that I've never really had a lot of interest in seeking before, but decided on a whim to go ahead and bid for and win - a Sinclair ZX81!

The seller's picture was a little blurry, but it looks practically the same as the image above, with the same white addon keyboard, albeit the ZX81 logo is not red.

I'll look out for the 16K RAM expansion soon, might get one for Christmas.

But this is now officially the lowest specced, least capable computer system I own. Well, something had to fulfil that role and I'd rather it be this. 🤣

Ancient memories... that beast was terribly slow and limited when I had it - with 16MB RAM pacl - as a schoolboy back in the early 1980s. And it had possibly the only keyboard worse than the current MacBook range. Even with prosthetic keyboard like this it was painful. But it was the first computer <100GBP and for that alone worthy of its place in history.

I think you mean 16KB rather than 16MB unless I way underestimated what an 8-bit is capable of.

Bought this AT Power supply yesterday for 5 EUR. When I looked at it more closely, I realised that it only has connections for the motherboard. No molex or floppy connections. What kind of power supply is this and what computers (motherboards) it is ment for? Is it possible to use it in an "regular" computer?

I'm guessing it powered an industrial ISA backplane -- especially due to the short power switch cable. You can certainly still use it if it is functional. You can add some of your own cables that you need (molex, floppy) by soldering directly to the board, or making an in-line breakout cable.

wiretap wrote:

I'm guessing it powered an industrial ISA backplane -- especially due to the short power switch cable. You can certainly still use it if it is functional. You can add some of your own cables that you need (molex, floppy) by soldering directly to the board, or making an in-line breakout cable.

Well, it powers on, so I asumme it works. I also noticed short power switch cable when I held it in my hands. Thanks for the tip.