frudi wrote:

The green ones are Sanyo and there's also a pair of black ones mixed in there, those are Rubycon.

Interesting, I have one which has a mix of Rubycon and United Chemi-Con capacitors. The green caps on your board look very similar to various Taiwanese brands, but Sanyo is a Japanese top brand. I keep learning 😀

So, it's time for mine january-february haul report:

nVidia GeForce3 Ti200 (ASUS V8200T2/64M)

I have a soft spot for ASUS-flavoured nVidia cards. And GeForce 3 are getting much more harder to find nowadays (at least in mine country). Sadly it's only Ti200, but still, it's GeForce 3.

nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 (ASUS V8420S/128M)

Same goes for this card. But i've actually never had a "giant" Ti4200 (i have MSI GeForce 4 Ti4800SE that have sort of similar design):

(Oh, and btw, this Zalman heatsink is aftermarket (of course it is) 🤣 and was installed by me, since cooler from this card was dead, and i don't had any similar one lying around).

nVidia Riva TNT2 Pro (Gigabyte GA-660 Plus)

Not so usual TNT2 as you might think. Heatsink on the back of card is indeed, an interesting idea, but it was installed for a good reason. There's also a "Turbo" jumper that can perform a "hardware overclock" to the 170MHz core/180MHz memory (instead of standard 150/166). I guess overclockers was nuts about this feature back in a days. 🤣
But i guess everybody know about this feature, so...

Matrox Millenium G100 (G100A/2/OEM)

Finally i found a working G100 (i already had couple, and none of them was in working condition for... unknown reason (i tested on 3 various mobos - ASUS P2B, ASUS CUSL2-C и Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X). This one finally ended this unlucky combo. Sadly enough there's only 2 megs of memory on board (i thought 4 megs was minimum on G100).

S3 Trio64V+ (Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001)

There's nothing too fancy in S3 Trio cards, but this one was made by Diamond, so i guess it can have some little attention. 😀

3dfx Voodoo2 (STB V2-1000)

Finally got a second V2-1000 and... you can guess what that means. 🤣
Still need to make SLI cabel, but i don't have any spare old floppy cabels.

Aztech Sound Galaxy Basic 16

Lots of stuff happening here. Still, sadly there's no geniune OPL3 here.

ESS Allegro ES1989S (Labway Xwave 512) (I'm not quite sure if it's correct name of this card)


Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

Interestingly enough, there's no IEEE 1394 connector.

ASUS P4T-E (Socket 478)

Alrighty, i think that Pentium 4 is not quite retro (with the exception of socket 423). But RIMM memory is definitely an interesting moment.
That processor heatsink with "cooler" is piece of art indeed. 🤣

ASUS P3B-F (Slot 1)

ASUS CU4VX (Socket 370)

ASUS P2B-LS (Slot 1)

SCSI features makes P2B looks much more bigger. 🤣

ASUS P3V4X (Slot 1)

Intel D815EEA (Socket 370)

Tiga TI-815 (Socket 370)

Oh, and also sorry that i forgot to remove watermarks of phone camera. 😀

Bought a Yamaha TG300 locally. Cost about $50 USD. Happy to have some oldschool Yamaha in the mix now 😀

Some pics, I'll post the rest in build log later when I update that.

Seems to be mainly Rubycon & Nichicon caps. Unfortunately a soldered Sony CR2450 battery, but fortunately not leaking. I'll have to replace that.

Woot.

Good price for that unit. I have a TG100, which doesn't have the SFX on there for the rhythm channel (10). Does well for my mom's Yamaha CLP-500 piano and it played certain MIDI files better than my SC-55.

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Respect.

I got myself a Super Denise chip for my Amiga 500; that upgrades it to a complete ECS machine.

I assume you have a proper 2mb or 1mb agnus and KS2+, otherwise its only half ecs 😀

schlang wrote:

wiretap wrote:

Bought a Zalman cooler for my Socket A build..

I hope you paid paypal - they will almost always rule in favor of the buyer

Not in my case - they are absolutely terrible to deal with. I had to go through my CC company and final the BBB to get refunded in full.

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Respect.

I got myself a Super Denise chip for my Amiga 500; that upgrades it to a complete ECS machine.

I assume you have a proper 2mb or 1mb agnus and KS2+, otherwise its only half ecs 😀

I have a FAT Agnus and an ACA500+ that comes with KS 2.0 and KS 3.1 as well as doing remapping the 512MB slow ram to chipram (and remaps 512K from Fast mem to Slow Ram if you want) so yeah I do have 1MB chipram to go with it 😉

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS http://i.imgur.com/hp4Qrcrm.jpg Interestingly enough, there's no IEEE 1394 connector. […]
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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

Interestingly enough, there's no IEEE 1394 connector.

careful, its probably OEM model, it may say SB0350 on the front, but check the serial number on the back. If its OEM model, the drivers for win9x wont detect it, so it will only be usable in win2000 and up

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Aztech Sound Galaxy Basic 16
Lots of stuff happening here. Still, sadly there's no geniune OPL3 here

Ooh, that's a nice one. It may not have an OPL3 with genuine Yamaha markings, but that LS-212 is an exact 1:1 copy so should sound exactly the same as if it had been a YMF262-M.

Bought a cheap IBM Aptiva mouse that is really dirty and yellowed but I just need the cable and the interior to repair my own mouse that still looks very good.

Going to do some more searching to find my PS/1 replacement mouse but not expecting much luck there. If anyone has a (non-functioning) IBM PS/1 mouse they wish to sell me, send me a message. This is the model I need:

I got the socket 7 board to work finally, it was not picky about ram, it was just my ram sticks being oxidized from sitting on a shelf for a year. Scrubbed them real well with alchohol and now it works with all of them. Left a 64mb PC133 stick in it as a final

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Bought a Yamaha TG300 locally. Cost about $50 USD. Happy to have some oldschool Yamaha in the mix now :) […]
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Bought a Yamaha TG300 locally. Cost about $50 USD. Happy to have some oldschool Yamaha in the mix now 😀

Some pics, I'll post the rest in build log later when I update that.

Seems to be mainly Rubycon & Nichicon caps. Unfortunately a soldered Sony CR2450 battery, but fortunately not leaking. I'll have to replace that.

Woot.

So how does it sound compared to, say, Roland SC-88?

Cyrix 486dx2-66mhz. For my “ALL USA Parts 486 build.”

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

So how does it sound compared to, say, Roland SC-88?

From what I've heard, it's somewhere between an SC-55 and SC-88 in terms of sound quality. Definitely not as rich as any of the MU modules or the later SCs. Would be awesome to see x0zm post some recordings though 😀

I got this OEM Microsoft wheel mouse a couple months ago, so I guess I can post a bit of info about this. Here are some pics,

As you can see, it looks as if it were brand new. According to the previous owner (on eBay), this mouse has never been opened up before 😲

Of course, this is a PS/2 mouse. Although it came with a serial port to PS/2 adapter.

This is the package the mouse came in. This, as well as the mouse, also looks like it could be brand new, even though it's really not.

This mouse also came with a CD for Microsoft IntelliPoint 3.2, which are mouse drivers for this wheel mouse.

And of course, the manual for both the wheel mouse and MS IntelliPoint. Also in good condition.

I got this recently for an older PC I have that didn't have a freaking mouse (until now).

Heatsink for my ASUS P3 1ghz. build.

Bought a spare IBM ThinkPad power adapter for my ThinkPad 380D yesterday.

Sound Blaster 1.5 - CT-1320 C - Boxed New

Sound Blaster 2.0 - CT1350B - Boxed

Sound Blaster Pro - CT1330A - "Like New"

looks expensive

Friend of father gave me this NEC MultiSync JC-1401P3A monitor. It is one of the first VGA capable monitors, and was ranked among the best when it was introduced in 1986.