Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

The attachment Soyo SY-6BA+IV.jpg is no longer available

This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

The attachment Soyo SY-6BA+IV.jpg is no longer available

This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:59:

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must h […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

The attachment Soyo SY-6BA+IV.jpg is no longer available

This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

I do have a couple of 1Ghz 100 FSB Coppermines in the CPU box IIRC a couple of 133FSB ones too, got two Slotket III cards from back when I was collecting the things I can throw them on. I still want to fire it up and test it to make sure its working ok and to see how it compares against its 133 brother, but as you suggest itll likely end up in a sealed anti static bag in my "keep this" collection. Not many parts make it into that collection, though part of me would love to keep it on this board but all the digging I have done suggests this board tops out at 850Mhz CPUs.

I have a ASUS P3B-F I may try it on as that should support the full 1Ghz.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:59:

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must h […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

The attachment Soyo SY-6BA+IV.jpg is no longer available

This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts.
I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find.

Would you have opened it?

acl wrote on 2025-05-15, 08:57:

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts. I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find. […]
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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:59:

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must h […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts.
I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find.

Would you have opened it?

Yes, I dont buy to resell so it being nib would have been a nice bonus but wouldn't have a bearing on what I do with it.

I would have done my best to keep the box in good nick though, they look good with other big box displays.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

The attachment Soyo SY-6BA+IV.jpg is no longer available

This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

You lucky bugger. Going through the listing pictures, you can actually see it’s a 1Ghz CPU if you zoom in. I’m surprised no one saw that and snapped it up. You have a nice rare CPU collection going on. 3700 (754), 4800 (939) and now a 1GHz 100MHz slot 1.

The closest I have is a 1Ghz 133MHz slot 1 that sits in a ASUS P3V4X (which has native 133MHz support). Your ASUS P3B-F will love that 1GHz.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 09:54:

acl wrote on 2025-05-15, 08:57:

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts. I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find. […]
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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:59:

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts.
I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find.

Would you have opened it?

Yes, I dont buy to resell so it being nib would have been a nice bonus but wouldn't have a bearing on what I do with it.

I would have done my best to keep the box in good nick though, they look good with other big box displays.

I agree that's a bonus.
You can put the box on display while having the actual hardware in a system.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 06:12:

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:59:

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must h […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

I do have a couple of 1Ghz 100 FSB Coppermines in the CPU box IIRC a couple of 133FSB ones too, got two Slotket III cards from back when I was collecting the things I can throw them on. I still want to fire it up and test it to make sure its working ok and to see how it compares against its 133 brother, but as you suggest itll likely end up in a sealed anti static bag in my "keep this" collection. Not many parts make it into that collection, though part of me would love to keep it on this board but all the digging I have done suggests this board tops out at 850Mhz CPUs.

I have a ASUS P3B-F I may try it on as that should support the full 1Ghz.

Yeah, definitely test it. Also, what board is it (sorry if I missed that somewhere)? Generally, if a board supports coppermine voltages it will just work at whatever multiplier the CPU is locked at. The board doesn't really have any say in the matter, and at most will just report the clock speed or CPU model incorrectly. Many 440BX boards with coppermine support that I have seen only have BIOS settings to manually set up to 500Mhz CPUs, so that may make it appear that support is limited, but it has no way to lower a PIII's locked multiplier, so faster chips just work at their rated speed with no issue.

acl wrote on 2025-05-15, 08:57:

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts. I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find. […]
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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:59:

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must h […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

No way!!! You just accidentally got a mis-advertised SL4KL stuck in a board?? That is nuts. What an awesome surprise that must have been. Not saying that this is logical, but that thing would probably fetch $300-$400 US or more on ebay these days.

That is the type of processor that you go "Ooo, cool!" and then you swap it out with a comparable Socket 370 CPU on a slotket instead. The value and rarity of them doesn't really fit their utility compared to CPUs that are far far far less valuable.

... every time this comes up though, I kick myself again for a sealed box 1Ghz Slot 1 100Mhz FSB PIII I missed for like ~$40 right when I first started deliberately collecting this stuff again 9-10 years ago. I knew they were less common but I hesitated because I don't they were probably "only" going for $100-$150 at that point and I didn't want to spend the money.

I still have a big dilemma with sealed parts.
I don't actively look for them but sometimes this is what I find.

Would you have opened it?

Yeah, I am the same way. I really like being able to hold the hardware itself and see what is in the box, but when people that apparently have 50x the disposable income that I have are seeking sealed boxes for their collection (similar to collecting toys or other things), it is hard to ignore the value of said items.

I will open a sealed box if it is a mystery item though. Like this one... that was a really awesome find and I'm glad I decided to open it. 😁

Got my hands on a pair of JBL Platinum sp08a11 speakers, for just around the equivalent 0f $10! In excellent condition!!

They were a royal pain to clip onto my Compaq 7500 though, tolerances were so tight I had to line them up at the exactly correct angle, in order to push them down. Needless to say, going through the extra trouble of engaging the locking pins, was a no brainer!

That looks fantastic! How is the sound compared to cheap speakers?

PD2JK wrote on 2025-05-15, 20:20:

That looks fantastic! How is the sound compared to cheap speakers?

Honestly I don't think I've ever had cheap speakers. Maybe the set that came with my family's old Dell, but those also came with a subwoofer so not really an apples to apples comparison.

But they sound really good to my ears. 😀

Great news, the recycler even agreed to bring the boards to me himself.

20 boards so far:
- 3x ASUS P3B-F (you read that absolutely right)
- ABIT KA7-100
- 2 or 3 GA-7IXE
- BX2000+
- BX2000 standard
- 2x MSI 6167
- I think at least two GA-7IX
- Socket 8 Dell mobo
- Epox EP-MVP3G5
- ASUS P2B-DS Rev 1.05
- Tekram P5M3-A+ (686A!!!)
- another PCChips M577
- Intel L440GX
- 2x MSI 815EPT Pro-R
- 3x GPUs out of which two are X1950 Pros, both Sapphire OEM (possibly 3rd one is as well)

Outside of those:
- AOpen AX6BC Pro (from oerg866)
- EPOX EP-7KXA (tomorrow)
- another BX2000 which despite being from Hungary it takes an horrifyingly long amount of time to ship. (Packeta)
- Tualatin P3, 1.13GHz

zuldan wrote on 2025-05-15, 11:57:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-05-15, 05:13:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-04-29, 12:21:

I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton o […]
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I don't have many motherboards on my hit list of boards I want but I got one today a nice Soyo SY-6BA+IV, its got a metric ton of bells and whistles for overclocking along with ATA 66 4 dimm slots and 2 ISA.

Pretty much a board built for the PII/PIII tinkerer.

The attachment Soyo SY-6BA+IV.jpg is no longer available

This one comes with a PIII 667 and 640 Mb of ram ...kinda odd amount of memory .. looking at the photos its got 4 256Mb sticks in it which means some of the sticks are not being detected correctly ..likely got a couple of single rank high density sticks in there.

Still thats not hard to sort out when it gets here.

An update for this board, its arrived and its not a PIII 667 .. its a PIII 1000 256/100/1.7v SL4KL ...a 100FSB PIII !... I think that perhaps the seller didn't fully understand what this board had as they also got the memory all wrong too.

Never though I would ever actually get a 1Ghz 100FSB Slot 1 PIII they tend to be stupidly expensive, itll make a great addition to my collection as I recently got a PIII 1000 133FSB model too, might see if this Soyo board can run the 133FSB model as well and do some benching if it can.

You lucky bugger. Going through the listing pictures, you can actually see it’s a 1Ghz CPU if you zoom in. I’m surprised no one saw that and snapped it up. You have a nice rare CPU collection going on. 3700 (754), 4800 (939) and now a 1GHz 100MHz slot 1.

The closest I have is a 1Ghz 133MHz slot 1 that sits in a ASUS P3V4X (which has native 133MHz support). Your ASUS P3B-F will love that 1GHz.

Well I feel a bit silly, that recent PIII 1Ghz 133FSB SL4BS I bought ... I didn't need it, turns out I already have one in an old rig I had put into storage its in a rather cool motherboard too, its a Jetway J-9BXAN which has both Socket 370 and Slot1 and fully supports 133FSB, the SL4BS in it runs perfectly fine at its rated speed with zero issues being identified correctly ....oh well I guess I now have a spare one. I do wonder if my P2B-DS would run them, I will have to look into that at some point, its a later model board so it might.

Edit . .turns out the Retroweb has a metric ton of info on making the P2B-DS run CPUs it was never designed to up to and including the Tualatin 1.4s ..naturally with some heavy modifications and caveats.

I thought I was done with buying AGP-cards but when a lot of 20 cards popped up for 100 euros FOMO struck me. I haven't tested them yet so we will see if it was worth it. Sold as untested, without anti static bags and a capacitor was loose in the shipping box so there will be some issues. The cards in the picture is the ones I find the most interesting - the other are FX and MX cards and so on. Identified cards in spoiler.

Baleog wrote on 2025-05-16, 16:25:

I thought I was done with buying AGP-cards but when a lot of 20 cards popped up for 100 euros FOMO struck me. I haven't tested them yet so we will see if it was worth it. Sold as untested, without anti static bags and a capacitor was loose in the shipping box so there will be some issues. The cards in the picture is the ones I find the most interesting - the other are FX and MX cards and so on. Identified cards in spoiler.

Spoiler

- Geforce 4 Ti4600
- ASUS V7700 Pro / NVidia GeForce 2 pro OR GTS(?)
- ATI 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder
- Geforce 3 Ti200 or 500
- ATI 9550 ? (seems to be decent and with passive cooling)
- ATI 9500 XT/9600 XT (?)
- Matrox G400 MAX (very happy if this works!)
- ATI 9500/9600/9700? I got 3 of them but google lens gets confused when trying to ID it.
- Hercules Prophet 9200. Just a ATI 9200 but I love how the Hercules cards looks. I thought it was a KRYO II at first but alas.

Sweet collection 🙂.

vetz wrote on 2025-03-25, 21:41:

JustJulião wrote on 2025-03-24, 20:27:

A pair of Canopus Total3D (Verite V1000L-P) cards with their "3D audio" add ons and the bundled software.
Let me know if any of these have not been uploaded yet and are of any interest.

As far as I know the Canopus driver CD has not been archived anywhere. Same goes for the Canopus 3D Glasses patches (or Whiplash/Descent II has special support?). Would be awesome if you could make that happen to for instance archive.org

I will. Didn't try the 3D glasses yet and I didn't notice anything different with the 3D audio actived (it's not even slower), but I definetely noticed that both the drivers from the CD and the Total3D drivers on Vogonsdrivers are noticebly slower than latest Reference ones. On Forsaken the difference is night and day.
Seems like we'll have to chose between speed and Canopus goodies. I might spend some time trying to "merge" them, replacing .dlls and other files for Reference ones here and there, but they seem quite different.

Baleog wrote on 2025-05-16, 16:25:

I thought I was done with buying AGP-cards but when a lot of 20 cards popped up for 100 euros FOMO struck me. I haven't tested them yet so we will see if it was worth it. Sold as untested, without anti static bags and a capacitor was loose in the shipping box so there will be some issues. The cards in the picture is the ones I find the most interesting - the other are FX and MX cards and so on. Identified cards in spoiler.

Spoiler

- Geforce 3 Ti200 or 500

Put my comment in the copied spoiler 😉

Alexraptor wrote on 2025-05-15, 20:15:

Got my hands on a pair of JBL Platinum sp08a11 speakers, for just around the equivalent 0f $10! In excellent condition!!

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Hey! I just bought a set of those too!

Honestly, they're not bad. I wanted something that WASN'T USB and had a power supply that was rated for something decent, mine says 1 Amp.

dominusprog wrote on 2025-05-16, 17:34:

Baleog wrote on 2025-05-16, 16:25:

I thought I was done with buying AGP-cards but when a lot of 20 cards popped up for 100 euros FOMO struck me. I haven't tested them yet so we will see if it was worth it. Sold as untested, without anti static bags and a capacitor was loose in the shipping box so there will be some issues. The cards in the picture is the ones I find the most interesting - the other are FX and MX cards and so on. Identified cards in spoiler.

Spoiler

- Geforce 4 Ti4600
- ASUS V7700 Pro / NVidia GeForce 2 pro OR GTS(?)
- ATI 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder
- Geforce 3 Ti200 or 500
- ATI 9550 ? (seems to be decent and with passive cooling)
- ATI 9500 XT/9600 XT (?)
- Matrox G400 MAX (very happy if this works!)
- ATI 9500/9600/9700? I got 3 of them but google lens gets confused when trying to ID it.
- Hercules Prophet 9200. Just a ATI 9200 but I love how the Hercules cards looks. I thought it was a KRYO II at first but alas.

Sweet collection 🙂.

Yes but it was a gamble. See below..

H3nrik V! wrote on 2025-05-16, 21:48:

Baleog wrote on 2025-05-16, 16:25:

I thought I was done with buying AGP-cards but when a lot of 20 cards popped up for 100 euros FOMO struck me. I haven't tested them yet so we will see if it was worth it. Sold as untested, without anti static bags and a capacitor was loose in the shipping box so there will be some issues. The cards in the picture is the ones I find the most interesting - the other are FX and MX cards and so on. Identified cards in spoiler.

Spoiler

- Geforce 3 Ti200 or 500

Spoiler

- Geforce 3 Ti200 or 500
If it's not clear, it might even be a pre-Ti GeForce 3, which speed wise was between the 2 later released Ti200 and Ti500

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It was the latter of the original two alternatives.

I am half way done testing by now and the results are not looking good. I would say 70% of the cards I have tried are not working. I have noticed some trace damage and a lot of components missing on almost all the damaged cards (ripped of caps/resistors) so im hoping that resoldering those will wake them up. I will most likely create another thread about that in the future.

It's not retro in and of itself, but I bought a Gigabyte Z370 HD3P for a retro purpose. I currently have an Asus Prime H310-Plus and Intel i7-9700k to multiboot Windows 2000 (using the MPS HAL), Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. While the system works pretty darn well with Windows 2000 using all 8 CPU cores, the H310 motherboard has a lot of drawbacks. The CPU won't run at a higher clock rate than the i7's base frequency in MPS mode, the pitiful VRMs have no cooling and really can't operate at anything more than 75W for the CPU, and the NVME slot only operates in PCIE X2 mode. If I could overclock the CPU in Windows 2000, I'd probably stick with the Asus board.

I hope that the Gigabyte Z370 has MPS tables compatible with Windows 2000. If it does, the board should have no trouble running the i7-9700k at stock or even slightly overclocked for Windows 2000. My only other concern is the addressing of the motherboard's PCI slots. My Asus board is a little wonky with the address space of the PCI slots tied to the chipset, and they only work with Windows 2000 if I have the NVME slot populated with an SSD. I hope that the Gigabyte board's PCI slots work with Windows 2000 by default. I prefer to use my Audigy 2ZS with Windows 2000. I otherwise have compatible PCIE devices for USB, networking, and graphics.