PcBytes wrote on 2024-08-21, 23:10:

According to TRW, it indeed is a killer board as one of the "evaluation ROM" BIOSes supports the XP-M Bartons.
My Shuttle flashed ECS K7VZA has had its share of glory... but there isn't space for both of 'em 😀

Oh, wow. ISA slot + Barton support is pretty crazy! Nice find!

PcBytes wrote on 2024-08-21, 23:10:

According to TRW, it indeed is a killer board as one of the "evaluation ROM" BIOSes supports the XP-M Bartons.
My Shuttle flashed ECS K7VZA has had its share of glory... but there isn't space for both of 'em 😀

Just got my own one of these Soltek SL-75KAV boards, its been recapped already too, might try out that Barton bios with the 3000 XP-M.

Might take a while to get here though but I have bought from this seller before a number of times so I know they are reliable.

Do you happen to know where one might get this .. evaluation BIOS from ? the latest I see is the 2003 Q12 one. .. never mind me .. should learn to RTFM.

Also should learn to look at images from the seller .. its already got the Q12 Ev bios installed.

Repo Man11 wrote on 2024-08-20, 23:35:

Warlord wrote on 2024-08-19, 02:00:

I bought this Auzentech prelude, because they dont pop up that often for sale anymore and not for the price I paid for it. I did notice the few bent pins.

I had one of those - I bought it from Newegg for almost $200.00 in late 2008 because after upgrading from a Socket 939 system to a P5Q Pro I discovered that my Philips Accoustic Edge refused to work with my new motherboard for some reason. I was happy with it, I wish I still had it (lost it in the fire).

I owned one of these as well, which I won as a prize from a video game contest. I used it for years but I think I accidentally killed it by feeding line voltage into it the wrong way using a stereo splitter.

Note that you will need Auzentech's special driver pack for it or function or one of the community repacks which support it. You can't use Creative's own driver pack with it.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 01:52:

Just got my own one of these Soltek SL-75KAV boards, its been recapped already too, might try out that Barton bios with the 3000 XP-M.

Curious to know where you got that 3000 XP-M from? They seem pretty rare.

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-22, 03:52:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 01:52:

Just got my own one of these Soltek SL-75KAV boards, its been recapped already too, might try out that Barton bios with the 3000 XP-M.

Curious to know where you got that 3000 XP-M from? They seem pretty rare.

I went digging through my eBay purchases, looks like I got it in January last year as part of a CPU lot with a few rando Athlon 64 CPUs and the 939 4800+ I was actually after. the lot cost 200 AUD so more than I would ever normally pay but that 4800+ is damn hard to find.

Its the X2 ADA4800DAA6CD Toledo version which was the last non FX 64 X2 CPU for the 939 platform so it was worth grabbing and saving from the gold scrappers.

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 04:04:

I went digging through my eBay purchases, looks like I got it in January last year as part of a CPU lot with a few rando Athlon 64 CPUs and the 939 4800+ I was actually after. the lot cost 200 AUD so more than I would ever normally pay but that 4800+ is damn hard to find.

Its the X2 ADA4800DAA6CD Toledo version which was the last non FX 64 X2 CPU for the 939 platform so it was worth grabbing and saving from the gold scrappers.

Very nice! I would have happily paid $200 as well. Can’t believe you got a 4800 and the 3000 from that lot. I bought the ADA4800DAA6CD in 2005 (and it’s still going strong). Cleaned out my bank account by doing so 😝

Reading some old forums from that period it appears some people preferred the 4800 over the FX CPUs due to it’s overclocking capabilities.

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-22, 08:38:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 04:04:

I went digging through my eBay purchases, looks like I got it in January last year as part of a CPU lot with a few rando Athlon 64 CPUs and the 939 4800+ I was actually after. the lot cost 200 AUD so more than I would ever normally pay but that 4800+ is damn hard to find.

Its the X2 ADA4800DAA6CD Toledo version which was the last non FX 64 X2 CPU for the 939 platform so it was worth grabbing and saving from the gold scrappers.

Very nice! I would have happily paid $200 as well. Can’t believe you got a 4800 and the 3200 from that lot. I bought the ADA4800DAA6CD in 2005 (and it’s still going strong). Cleaned out my bank account by doing so 😝

Reading some old forums from that period it appears some people preferred the 4800 over the FX CPUs due to it’s overclocking capabilities.

Sometimes you get lucky and other times you get shit sniped out from under you ...god I hate auction snipers, honestly didn't even know that the XP-M 3000 was rare, I made sure it worked and put it in my CPU box then stupidly forgot I even had it.

Didn't the 4800+ sell for something like 1000 USD ? I mean I have bought some pricey CPUs like the 10980XE but even that didn't cost 1K USD. (Wikipedia has it listed at 1001 USD but not sure if that's accurate)

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 08:48:

Didn't the 4800+ sell for something like 1000 USD ? I mean I have bought some pricey CPUs like the 10980XE but even that didn't cost 1K USD. (Wikipedia has it listed at 1001 USD but not sure if that's accurate)

I remember paying over $1000 AUD for it. I don’t think it was as high as $1000 USD though. I was eating 2 minute noodles for the next month 🤣 I bought a ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe to put it in. That exploded when I tried to power it on a last year. Was extremely lucky it didn’t take the CPU with it. The CPU is now sitting in a ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI with a Guru Panel. It’s running 2x 8600GTs. I can’t afford to put something more period correct in it 😛

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-22, 09:15:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 08:48:

Didn't the 4800+ sell for something like 1000 USD ? I mean I have bought some pricey CPUs like the 10980XE but even that didn't cost 1K USD. (Wikipedia has it listed at 1001 USD but not sure if that's accurate)

I remember paying over $1000 AUD for it. I don’t think it was as high as $1000 USD though. I was eating 2 minute noodles for the next month 🤣 I bought a ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe to put it in. That exploded when I tried to power it on a last year. Was extremely lucky it didn’t take the CPU with it. The CPU is now sitting in a ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI with a Guru Panel. It’s running 2x 8600GTs. I can’t afford to put something more period correct in it 😛

2 min noodles ...having been on the bad end of not having money I cannot eat chicken ones any more, at the time I was living on them because I couldn't afford anything else .

Just the smell of chicken noodles now makes me gag.

Rice (and any meal with rice in it) is what I can't take anymore. After being on a diet of rice I'm legitimately sick of it.

Back on topic, the Soltek is here! It looks a bit more dire than expected (that SDR slot's hooks are too far gone to get any plastic latches in there.) but it POST'd fine with a XP 2200+. It's been recapped quite poorly with Licons, Choyo and suspicious date Nichicon HMs. And two lone Rubycon MBZ previously, but it POSTs.

Leftside is my QDI KinetiZ 7B. Known for its peculiar UDMA100 concurrence bug.

Bah, who really needs meat and 3 veg? Retro hardware is so much more important, and buying the latest high end hardware even more! 😀

zuldan wrote on 2024-08-22, 03:52:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-08-22, 01:52:

Just got my own one of these Soltek SL-75KAV boards, its been recapped already too, might try out that Barton bios with the 3000 XP-M.

Curious to know where you got that 3000 XP-M from? They seem pretty rare.

There is also a K8 based 3000+ XP-M on socket 754 that are absolutely not a K7 Athlons but rebranded K8 Semprons.
Just to make the online search harder.

You can also get an Opteron 180 = 4800+ X2 they usual have better silicon and can be had for about 50$

Complete in-box, looks unused. It's one of those items that literally has ZERO practical value or use even amongst retro computer enthusiasts, but I was delighted to find it at Goodwill none-the-less...

That was my first modem. Macintosh version too. There's a small part of me that wants one of those modems.

keenerb wrote on 2024-08-22, 20:35:

Complete in-box, looks unused. It's one of those items that literally has ZERO practical value or use even amongst retro computer enthusiasts, but I was delighted to find it at Goodwill none-the-less...

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You're in luck! It works with any computer 😁

keenerb wrote on 2024-08-22, 20:35:

Complete in-box, looks unused. It's one of those items that literally has ZERO practical value or use even amongst retro computer enthusiasts, but I was delighted to find it at Goodwill none-the-less...

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My Mac’s don’t need a dial up modem.
My Macintosh color classic with 16mhz Motorola cpu and 8mb of memory can still go online and surf the internet.
I use a network card 10-base-t and connect directly to my Linksys gigabyte switch,
I am running MacOS 7.5.3 and TCP/IP package, Netscape 3x

Just bought Libretto 20CT Port Replicator (PA2720UJ) & noticed it is actually absolutely same thing as expensive Libretto 50CT "Enhanced" Port Replicator (PA2718U):

PA2718U:

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Just bought Libretto 20CT Port Replicator (PA2720UJ) & noticed it is actually absolutely same thing as expensive Libretto 50CT "Enhanced" Port Replicator (PA2718U):

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PA2718U:

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Huh, it looks like the Japan-only PA2720UJ is actually for the 50CT, check out this vintage Toshiba page! https://dynabook.com/pc/catalog/oldpc/libretto/li235_op.htm
Time for some archiving 😁

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-08-22, 14:00:

You can also get an Opteron 180 = 4800+ X2 they usual have better silicon and can be had for about 50$

That's what I ended up doing. Years ago I bought some computer stuff and included were several 939 CPUs, the best of which was a 4400+. A little over a year ago I spotted some NOS Asus A8V X Socket 939 AGP motherboards at local computer shop for a good price and I bought one. But then I discovered that this particular board has no overclocking options! I then picked up a Gigabyte board with an Ali chipset that had bad caps. I recapped it, but I still wasn't satisfied with the overall performance. Now with an Opteron 180, a good cooler, and an HD 3850 I'm happy with the result. The video card is still CPU limited, but not too badly.