Bought a i7 4700mq + GTX780M laptop with 32GB RAM and a 500GB SSD for $178 shipped with AC adapter.

My thought is this should be a great XP + 7 dual boot. I may even be able to tri-boot XP + 7 + 10 LTSC.

GTX 700, much as GeForceFX was the break away point for legacy DX6 graphics, is the break away point for 9.0c and XP era graphics in many ways. Its the last GPU to support CSAA and a few other technologies. Also the last series of GPUs to have proper Windows XP driver support.

CSAA was introduced with GeForce G80 and DX10?

MattRocks wrote on 2026-04-02, 11:22:

The 300W Mercury PSU might be suitable for my i430TX.

BANG!

No, that Mercury 300W PSU is not going onto my i430TX after all. It literally exploded and black smoke came out. Wow.. I really didn't have much luck at all with that mystery box.

Helloes !

So shall we "unbox" this mystery box together ?

Recently I saw someone here in this thread posting his recent poach and he gracefully guided us through the hardware reveal process and I was wondering if you guys like this kind of content

Yesterday I got this box from a local marketplace (for 20€) and will open it in the next few days .

So the case is a typical 90s AT minitower with a MHZ display ... in desperate need of a retrobright
No 5 1/4 drive (as always) and no CD-ROM.
The case is very light so I dont think there is a lot of "stuff" inside
In the back we can see the I/O ports and only a single VGA card ... no sound card with a volume wheel unfortunately
The keyboard port gives us a hint of the varta nightmare we are going to find inside very soon...

the logo and case badge point to "inforfoco" a known PC shop in my area what makes me believe that this might have a slight chance of being a private/home computer instead of a company machine

so... any guesses ?
I'll wait a few days and then will crack open the case and post the results here... that varta has already done all the damage it could do... a few more days will not make any difference

Alright here goes:
-AMD 486 DX2 66
-8MB RAM
-Trident 9000 VGA