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PeterLI wrote:

Thanks! 😀

Yup!

[EDIT] Found the thread.
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/195263-reall … om-sears/page-2

That said, it is a cool way to get mfg. part numbers. If you have time (and money?) to waste, you can always try it.

SquallStrife wrote:

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It's a 386/486 combo board, fitted with a 386DX 33.

3486-UCF RevB.

Just had more of a rummage through this box and found an Acumos AVGA1 ISA card. Are they any good?

All I can find on this motherboard is the manual with the jumper settings. Has anyone else seen one like it? Any good?

I won't have a chance to play with it until the weekend.

Scored something rather interesting today for $75 and change at the local scrap shop, a Dell xps m1730 that is a engineering sample o.o

"This machine is for Dell internal use only"

Some new toys has arrived!

Another Asus A8N32-SLI, the best socket 939 SLI board.
I already own one of these boards but that board is brand new so I do not want to mess to much with it.
I would not be happy if it burned because of to much voltage when I am punishing some poor K8 CPU.
This "new" board is already battered and bruised so its a better choice for tinkering.
I had to pay ~$64 for the board, a nice CPU cooler and an Athlon X2 4400+ CPU.

Also seen in the picture are two Celeron 1300, a Celeron 1000, a Celeron 1100 a Lin Lin adapter, 2*1 GB DDR 500 and 3*512 mb DDR 333.
The 1 GB sticks were $20, the 512 MB sticks were $5 and the CPUs+ adapter set me back $10.

I did also buy a FX 55 CPU for $30, a 939 Athlon 64 3700+ for $0.12 and another single stick 512 MB DDR for $0.12.

This was not a bad deal! A box with ~200 mixed games for 50 euro including shipping.

Looks like that Sears thing is a joke indeed.

Got a second MSI K7N2 Delta 2 FSR motherboard.. Its included with mobile processor, 512MB ram, ATI 9500 graphics..

Iam had only intrests in the board and memory.. Dont going the use the processor, iam going to sell that and the ATI 9500 card as well.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/MSI-K7-N2-K7N2-Delta2- … =p2047675.l2557

Picked up a 21" Gateway Vivitron CRT for free yesterday (02/17). And received IBM DOS 5 today (02/18).

PeterLI wrote:

Picked up a 21" Gateway Vivitron CRT for free yesterday

And you're selling it for $400?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gateway-2000-Vivitron … =item461afbabcf

I found what I think is probably an uncommon sound card. It's a Xitel Storm PCI.It has an Aureal Vortex2 chip. From an old review I managed to dig up, it says this card came out at the same time as the Diamond Monster Sound MX300 but was cheaper. It came in two versions, one with just the card, drivers and instructions for $79 and the other had all that plus some audio utilities and a pair of headphones bundled with it for $99. This card had one big advantage over the Monster Sound, though. It has a digital out connector that the Monster Sound doesn't.

Here's a link to Xbitlabs review with some pictures, but the pics are kind of small so you may not see the details very well depending on how good your eyes are.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/d … play/xitel.html

Artex wrote:

PeterLI wrote:

Picked up a 21" Gateway Vivitron CRT for free yesterday

And you're selling it for $400?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gateway-2000-Vivitron … =item461afbabcf

Lol...that must be a typo...if not it must be madness 🤣

Nice monitor, but certainly not worth $400 + shipping.

Robin4 wrote:

Got a second MSI K7N2 Delta 2 FSR motherboard.. Its included with mobile processor, 512MB ram, ATI 9500 graphics..

Iam had only intrests in the board and memory.. Dont going the use the processor, iam going to sell that and the ATI 9500 card as well.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/MSI-K7-N2-K7N2-Delta2- … =p2047675.l2557

You have some bulged caps in the CPU VRM...

I bought the value version of this board new as well as a mobile athlon back in 2004...

Why you would buy this today is beyond me...

retrofanatic wrote:

Artex wrote:

PeterLI wrote:

Picked up a 21" Gateway Vivitron CRT for free yesterday

And you're selling it for $400?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gateway-2000-Vivitron … =item461afbabcf

Lol...that must be a typo...if not it must be madness 🤣

Nice monitor, but certainly not worth $400 + shipping.

Don't think so.. As it reads:

'Local pick-up possible of course ($100)'

🤣

Knowing US shipping costs, thats cheap 😀

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Stojke wrote:

Knowing US shipping costs, thats cheap 😀

CRT monitors or all in one computers like the Tandy Model 4 that have a CRT built in are usually not worth shipping. The shipping on them usually exceeds the value. Even if the seller was giving them away for free, the total cost to you to have it shipped could still exceed the value of the item and you'd be out money. Items that are heavy, bulky, or awkward to handle usually require a lot of thought before purchasing. Are they really worth what the delivery company charges on top of the sellers price and how badly do you really want the item that you would pay the extra for it?

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PeterLI wrote:

Very valid questions. But you cannot put value on emotion. For some people assembling their (dream) childhood PC outweighs $. Some people also have a lot of $ to spend so they do not care about a few hundred $. They spend that on a dinner in NYC for 2 easily for instance. It is all very relative. 😀

Good points indeed. It took me a LONG time to find my original Gateway 2000 P5-75 tower with the 15" Vivitron 1572 setup. Those old full towers were absolute PIGS as far as their weight was concerned, but I needed to have it and was willing to spend the money for shipping costs. And holy hell was I worried it was going to get damaged during shipping before it even got here...

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In a local thrift store I scored 5 old expansion cards (an unknown Voodoo 3 without heatsink, a TNT2, a Vortex soundcard and 2 of those older Intel NICs) @ 1 euro each, so no reason to not get these (it was full of older graphics cards, including Matrox's, Ati's and stuff like that)
I also got myself a VGA monitor cable, nothing fancy though.