kixs wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Not hardware but this made me very happy when it came in the mail (although the box was crushed due to poor packaging, grr..) […]
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Not hardware but this made me very happy when it came in the mail (although the box was crushed due to poor packaging, grr..)

I wish they would fill the box with some crumpled paper to save the box from crushing. Most don't even if I ask them to 🙁

The last time I made some very professional looking message to seller saying how I chose there listing based on condition (which I usually do, as better maintained ones are usually the games that turn out to have working floppys) and that if it arrived in good condition they could expect both a positive review and further business from me.

They sent it in a box with foam sheets as padding, the box wrapped in bubble wrap, inside another box, surrounded by packing peanuts, inside yet another box. All 3 boxes of the double wall variety. I mean what I had bought was a slim big box copy of Star Trek 25th Anniversary. There packing literally trippled the size of the package. Impressive, that box was ready to survive the apocalypse.

BTW you have to keep in mind alot of large sellers already have there items packaged minus a shipping label. It's sad to say, but it might not be practical for them to spend time repackaging it and wasting packing materials. The profit margins on these things aren't always huge. Gotta play the devil's advocate and remind everyone there humans too, gotta make a living the same as us. Plus, no matter how something is shipped sometimes there will be damage.

dexvx wrote:

chose007 wrote:

@dexvx: nice Athlon 1GHz 😁

I got one too, so can finish collecting slot A platform.

Nice, unfortunately, since mine was HP OEM, it only has a somewhat large heatsink. Hard to install a fan because it will get very close to the memory sockets.

I think the classic Athlon (Orion core) 1GHz is much rarer. I was at a recycler and saw an Athlon 700 MHz (Pluto, fastest of that core). May pick it up if it's still there next time.

I've been searching for a 1Ghz Slot-A Athlon Thunderbird (with the full speed cache) for many years now.. I haven't actually seen one actually for sale anywhere since right about when they came out new originally and the 3-5 years after that then they sort of all disappeared. Well rather, I did see one on ebay once for $600.. but that doesn't really count.

kithylin wrote:

I've been searching for a 1Ghz Slot-A Athlon Thunderbird (with the full speed cache) for many years now.. I haven't actually seen one actually for sale anywhere since right about when they came out new originally and the 3-5 years after that then they sort of all disappeared. Well rather, I did see one on ebay once for $600.. but that doesn't really count.

It's somewhat rare, but you'd have to expand your search to motherboards and systems as well. I saw another Athlon slot 1GHz (unsure if Classic or TBird) sold for well under $100 in a combo.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you possibly the most powerful AGP 3.3v compatible video card - Galaxy GeForce 7900GS AGP!

Also Sparkle 6600GT:

dexvx wrote:

chose007 wrote:

@dexvx: nice Athlon 1GHz 😁

I got one too, so can finish collecting slot A platform.

Nice, unfortunately, since mine was HP OEM, it only has a somewhat large heatsink. Hard to install a fan because it will get very close to the memory sockets.

I think the classic Athlon (Orion core) 1GHz is much rarer. I was at a recycler and saw an Athlon 700 MHz (Pluto, fastest of that core). May pick it up if it's still there next time.

http://www.cpu-world.com/Cores/Pluto.html
Isn't the Pluto 850MHz the fastest one?
I have a 800MHz Pluto. 😕

I think he meant the original 250nm K7... which is called Argon I believe and 700 MHz is in fact the fastest model.

Ladies and gentleman, I present to you possibly the most powerful AGP 3.3v compatible video card - Galaxy GeForce 7900GS AGP!

Nice find - but does any of the "bridged" cards actually work in AGP 2x/3.3V? I know NV40 works in i440BX, but no idea on these.

So far I've tested only GeForce 6600GT and HSI bridge had no problems with 440BX chipset. If I'am no mistaken, someone here mentioned about Galaxy 7600GS working with AGP 3.3v board.

havli wrote:

I think he meant the original 250nm K7... which is called Argon I believe and 700 MHz is in fact the fastest model.

Thanks for correction, I meant Argon @ 700 MHz. Need to head back to the recycler, I recall they have a 486 system. It would be nice since I fried mine 🙁

An internet friend from another online community sent me this for the price of shipping.

3D Cool tower with AMD Socket A 1GHz, 512MB RAM... complete rig except for HD + sound card. I had an HD + a Yamaha Audician lying around so I tossed them in.

oeuvre wrote:

An internet friend from another online community sent me this for the price of shipping.

3D Cool tower with AMD Socket A 1GHz, 512MB RAM... complete rig except for HD + sound card. I had an HD + a Yamaha Audician lying around so I tossed them in.

Nice computer, check the videocard clocks in Everest/AIDA32, it could be ethier an standard TNT2 (125/150 core/mem) or a TNT2 Pro (143/166 core/mem) which is a good videocard for time

125MHz, Diamond Viper V770

oeuvre wrote:

3D Cool tower with AMD Socket A 1GHz, 512MB RAM... complete rig except for HD + sound card. I had an HD + a Yamaha Audician lying around so I tossed them in.

Nice socket A with the ABIT KT7 😉
Have the same board, but i have to recap it cause several capacitors are worse 😒
Looking at your 2nd picture, there are might be some caps which look not very well...

Another rare find - ASUS Deluxe versions of GeForce 4 Ti 4600 and 4200.

You don't want to know how cheap they were 😈

Really love the look of that V8460UD. My all times favorite as far as the design is concerned 😀

Got my first XT motherboard for free today! It's something called Super 10-B (wasn't able to find any info on it so far) it comes with a Fujitsu MBL-8088-1 CPU and I don't know how much RAM.

I have an 8-bit sound card for it (Sound Commander Ex if I remember correctly), an OTIVGA videocard, a serial port card, but not much else. No XT PSU, no XT case, no XT keyboard and, most importantly, no disk controller or any other means of data transfer. So I'm not sure when I'm going to use it (if ever) but still nice to have.

This Socket 3 board showed up today. ECS Elite UMC UM8810PAIO Rev 2.1. Comes with the Voltage regulator board and ports.

Looking forward to putting a machine together around this.

An NVIDIA MX440 64MB AGP video card and a 1GHz Pentium III Socket 370 for a Dimension 4100 (upgrading from an NVIDIA TNT2 32MB and 733MHz)

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you possibly the most powerful AGP 3.3v compatible video card - Galaxy GeForce 7900GS AGP!

Try itstalling it on Slot 1 440BX board.

jheronimus wrote:

Got my first XT motherboard for free today! It's something called Super 10-B (wasn't able to find any info on it so far) it comes with a Fujitsu MBL-8088-1 CPU and I don't know how much RAM.

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I have an 8-bit sound card for it (Sound Commander Ex if I remember correctly), an OTIVGA videocard, a serial port card, but not much else. No XT PSU, no XT case, no XT keyboard and, most importantly, no disk controller or any other means of data transfer. So I'm not sure when I'm going to use it (if ever) but still nice to have.

An AT PSU and AT case can work fine, but you do need a XT keyboard.

OTI VGA cards can be put in CGA compatibility mode, and it works well for the majority of games. For data you can use low Density floppies only, until you are something that allows you to use fixed disks.

Just bought Korg NX5R module with Yamaha DB51 inside 😀

(sellers photo)