As an iconic American rapper Ice Cube once rapped.. "Today was a good day" 😎 😎

Holy smokes Artex, Nice! How much of your soul was sold to acquire a Voodoo5 6000?!?!

ODwilly wrote:

Holy smokes Artex, Nice! How much of your soul was sold to acquire a Voodoo5 6000?!?!

A small chunk of my soul... but not as much as some of the other owners wanted. 😜

Artex wrote:

As American rapper Ice Cube once rapped.. "Today was a good day" 😎 😎
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Take a gander here: http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/voodoo5_6000/

There's literally almost no scores at all recorded for this card.... I'm not sure why, do they not run Direct3D at all?

Or were they just incredibly unstable?

If you could get it set up and working.. no matter what system you use, you could take a few gold crowns for it (world records) because of no competition.

A lot of the cards weren't 100% stable (at least with FSAA) until Hank Semenec's PCI re-work mod.

Artex wrote:

A lot of the cards weren't 100% stable (at least with FSAA) until Hank Semenec's PCI re-work mod.

Ahhh... so that's why they never got em to retail, because they didn't have time to get the bugs worked out and stable before nvidia bought em.

Is yours one of the re-worked ones?

kithylin wrote:

Is yours one of the re-worked ones?

Yep! And this one is stable at 8X FSAA.

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😲 😲 😲

No images because they're not here yet, plus I'm sure everyone knows what they look like and you could just search on the net if you don't. But whatever, I got a couple of Pentiums;

SX753 - a 60MHz Socket 4 model with the FDIV bug, one of the gray top models known for overheating... Might not use that one too much unless I can get my hands on a good Socket 4 cooler, don't really want to use glue.
SX879 - a 90MHz Socket 5 model with the FDIV bug, this is a gold top version of the CPU. Might end up in place of my 75MHz chip as I could easily drop back to 75MHz by changing the one BUS speed jumper in that system.

Of course, this is assuming they actually work. The thing with buying them as a collector in this way, is that they are never sold as working parts as such and are mostly judged by visual condition because such collectors just put them on display. Still,if all the pins exist they are usually still working and I am of the impression all the pins are present. I don't really do the whole putting things on display thing, instead preferring to beat the hardware halfway to death for as long as it remains working, then fix it and abuse it even more. Boxes and broken parts are for display, working parts are for work.

It's all about the Pentiums! Yeay!

Damn Artex, you just dropped a bomb!

^^ Nice HighTreason. Love the classic old-school P5/P54C Pentiums!

F2bnp wrote:

Damn Artex, you just dropped a bomb!

Hahah 🤣. It's been a good week Fabian (as you already know)! 😀

As I mentioned, the connector is for the Quicklogic bus. It interfaces with external processors and sensors for data acquisition.

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Someone is damn lucky this week,congrats! 😲

I just bought this motherboard with CPU for 17 euro with free shipping! 😀

Lets play name the motherboard!

kithylin wrote:

Artex wrote:

A lot of the cards weren't 100% stable (at least with FSAA) until Hank Semenec's PCI re-work mod.

Ahhh... so that's why they never got em to retail, because they didn't have time to get the bugs worked out and stable before nvidia bought em.

Is yours one of the re-worked ones?

I reckon there are 2 reasons they never went to retail

1. No-one had a case long enough to fit them
2. The competition (Nvidia) already had more powerful cards 2/3 the length that did fit Your case.

Nevertheless, this kind of prototype stuff is still extremely interesting.

Skyscraper wrote:

I just bought this motherboard with CPU for 17 euro with free shipping! 😀

Lets play name the motherboard!

fun_times.jpg

Seems to be a workstation class board - multiple SCSI ports, a 64bit PCI/PCI-X slot, lots of DIMM slots. Unusual to see one with an ISA slot though! If my ASUS CUR-DLS (dual s370) had an ISA slot, I think I'd probably still be using it.

Looks like a nice piece of kit.

Skyscraper wrote:

I just bought this motherboard with CPU for 17 euro with free shipping! 😀

Lets play name the motherboard!

fun_times.jpg

Hmm... I'm suspecting socket 4, maybe 5. Built in SCSI, Ethernet and PCI-X suggests server board. Very early ATX by the looks of it and SDRAM would also have been very new. Pipeline burst cache would also have been advanced for the time and the ISA slot is there for compatibility. These are Sun Microsystems levels of engineering right here! Would have been a very expensive system at the time. Is this a well-known board then? I'm wildly speculating.

megatron-uk wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

I just bought this motherboard with CPU for 17 euro with free shipping! 😀

Lets play name the motherboard!

fun_times.jpg

Seems to be a workstation class board - multiple SCSI ports, a 64bit PCI/PCI-X slot, lots of DIMM slots. Unusual to see one with an ISA slot though! If my ASUS CUR-DLS (dual s370) had an ISA slot, I think I'd probably still be using it.

Looks like a nice piece of kit.

brassicGamer wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

I just bought this motherboard with CPU for 17 euro with free shipping! 😀

Lets play name the motherboard!

fun_times.jpg

Hmm... I'm suspecting socket 4, maybe 5. Built in SCSI, Ethernet and PCI-X suggests server board. Very early ATX by the looks of it and SDRAM would also have been very new. Pipeline burst cache would also have been advanced for the time and the ISA slot is there for compatibility. These are Sun Microsystems levels of engineering right here! Would have been a very expensive system at the time. Is this a well-known board then? I'm wildly speculating.

You are both on the right track, its a workstation board and probably a rather well known one. If I would guess I would say the board is from 1998 but that is only a guess as I have not done any extensive research yet.

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thats the 4th revision. The 1st and final revion (5th) are almost impossible to find.