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  1. luckybob77
    luckybob77 kooshool

    I have all the equipment to test all these chips you pictured.  if your friend wants someone who can re-sell these let me know.  I'm sure we can come to some sort of agreement.

  2. luckybob77
    there is a HUGE potential for quite a LOT of money there. 100X more than the raw value of the gold. the key word is POTENTIAL. You would need to clean and test every chip. The pins would need to be straightened, etc. This take a lot of time, and a lot of working motherboards to test everything. Some of those ship are EASILY worth $100 each. But only if they are tested, working, and clean, with straight pins. As a pile, you'd be lucky to get $1 each.
  3. luckybob77
    Oh, and make sure you get the $300 multi-meter, so it won't look out of place next to the $300 soldering iron. ^.^
  4. luckybob77
    meh. Inkjets have been clog machines since conception. Now my HP 7475A plotter, never once clogged. the pens did dry out pretty quick though... but seriously. unless you sit there and print something on a daily basis, they arent worth it. At that point you just go color laser.
  5. luckybob77
    You can get a standard MLCC capacitor in a 0602 package up to 330uF you can also get super small, super caps too. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Seiko-Semiconductors/CPH3225A?qs=3etwrb1wR%2BhUOph6lAO7eg%3D%3D They 100% have enough power to save the dram cache to the flash before the caps fully discharge.
  6. luckybob77
    Got a new plaything: RCA VideoTex Dataterm VP3501 made sometime mid 1981, it has a whopping 2048 bytes of S-Ram. The modem can go at the super speed of SIX HUNDRED BAUD Behold the RCA 1802 processor! its running at 1.86mhz if the huge crystal can be believed I have to make power and video cables from scratch, so thats going to be fun. But the data sheets for EVERY part are still online, so doing so is going to actually be rather easy. hopefully I can find a proper manual for the dip switches, because just guessing the setting for the modem speed is not something I want to do.
  7. luckybob77
    man, just looking at that sony is making my back hurt... I do not miss CRT tech. AT ALL.
  8. luckybob77
    Gather around children! I finally got myself a 286 machine! https://imgur.com/gallery/m3a2tMY well, it started life as a 286 anyway. Nothing quite as sexy as a monolithic beige tower with a power switch that makes so much noise, you would think you broke a finger.
  9. luckybob77
    Didn't they say it was because the 980's didn't have win10 drivers? besides, win 7 was the best thing to come out of Microsoft. it is the GOAT as the children say, and I will fight you about it.
  10. luckybob77
    @SimplyChunk You are likely going to want to pull out that USB 2.0 card. USB 2.0 can generate SO MANY irq interrupts by just existing that it can tank cpu performance by a wide margin. You can read more about it over here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=72722 by all means, do test the performance. it looks like you are running a pentium 3, so you might be okay. But I would 100% benchmark the system with and without the USB2 card.
  11. luckybob77
    I never owned an X5, but I did have an X6DA8-G2. Oh man, back in the day when everything was single thread... you put in a pair of 3.8G Irwindale chips, and that thing ran like a hot damn. I actually ran a Minecraft server on it for me and a few friends. Back when the server was single threaded, this thing was FAST. It was a marriage made in heaven. But once multi core systems became the norm, I had to retire the old girl. she sits in a box on a shelf.
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    The single SSD really kneecaps this system. You can still boot win7 from the SSD, but dropping in an nvme disk to run the games from is SO much better. I ran a similar setup, and having multiple ssd disks in a stripe raid was the baller move. You had a pair for the OS. and another pair for games. You then had a couple spinners for important data/video/etc. I personally was a big Civ V player then, and large games would slow to a CRAWL while the cpu crunched the Ai players. A 2nd cpu helped so much, just not in FPS. I still have my supermicro X8DAH+-F, and I bet it still works.... oh the memories...
  13. luckybob77
    Or ibm microchannel. No jumpers, but if you so much as looked at it funny, you had to redo the configuration with special floppy disks.
  14. luckybob77
    RIP part 2. Please tell us the parts went to a good home.
  15. luckybob77
    I dont recall jumpers for RAM type there were bios settings on all the boards I recall. That said, I have an early Pentium 2 board from TYAN that had jumpers for 3.3v and 5v simms. Most simms were tolerant in the switch, some were not. That said, 808x and 286 machines used jumpers to set memory size, and if you had an add-on memory board, it became an ordeal and a half with all those jumpers... I recently had a new cache card made for my 486. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=61847 - i got a pair of 1MB cards. It makes almost zero performance difference between 256kb and 1024kb - but the disk waving factor coupled with the near zero price difference... (at least for new cards, the cost difference was like $5)
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