Show off your old and retro computer parts

[Valentyn]

1 hour ago, BrianTheElectrician said:

Now THAT is a video card! Now we just need to see it in a build, preferably with benchmarks

 

Pretty please?

Oh it'll happen eventually. Sourcing some more beauties. Including the V5 5800 Special edtion. It's a 5500, that has double the VRAM at 128MB, and the two cores run at 200Mhz, as opposed to 166Mhz.

I'll likely throw in the competition also.

[X-System]

2 hours ago, Valentyn said:

I'll likely throw in the competition also.

 

-snip-

I tried to figure out why you are showing your 2 Rage Fury MAXX. Now, I see your 2 graphics cards have a little different.

 

So, I check my Rage Fury MAXX. It's an other too! I ask how many different models on the Rage Fury MAXX...

 

There is my Rage Fury MAXX

 

 

 

EDIT : I check on Google. It's only few Rage Fury MAXX having jumpers. It allows to disable one of the chips

Edited October 20, 2020 by X-System

[Valentyn]

13 hours ago, X-System said:

I tried to figure out why you are showing your 2 Rage Fury MAXX. Now, I see your 2 graphics cards have a little different.

 

So, I check my Rage Fury MAXX. It's an other too! I ask how many different models on the Rage Fury MAXX...

 

There is my Rage Fury MAXX

 

 

EDIT : I check on Google. It's only few Rage Fury MAXX having jumpers. It allows to disable one of the chips

 

That's exactly it! If you also check, your is 1999.

Mine are late 1999, and 2000. Yours is an earlier revision.

Its similar with my two Voodoo3 3000 PCI cards.

Different revisions, and look different, although far more differences than the FURY MAXX.

 

[Bitter]

14 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

 

That's exactly it! If you also check, your is 1999.

Mine are late 1999, and 2000. Yours is an earlier revision.

Its similar with my two Voodoo3 3000 PCI cards.

Different revisions, and look different, although far more differences than the FURY MAXX.

 

 

I had this version of the card and I OC'd he HECK out of it, the chip in the upper left corner got really hot so I carefully bent it up from the board and got a bigger heat sink to go on it and I could OC it even more HECKER until one day the legs of it broke off because I had bumped into it too many times or it wiggled around too much when I moved the PC around a lot of times. I didn't know but enough to get myself into trouble back then. I remember going around the internet trying to find ALL the Glide drivers and hacks for all the games to make them run so so much faster.

[Valentyn]

18 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I had this version of the card and I OC'd he HECK out of it, the chip in the upper left corner got really hot so I carefully bent it up from the board and got a bigger heat sink to go on it and I could OC it even more HECKER until one day the legs of it broke off because I had bumped into it too many times or it wiggled around too much when I moved the PC around a lot of times. I didn't know but enough to get myself into trouble back then. I remember going around the internet trying to find ALL the Glide drivers and hacks for all the games to make them run so so much faster.

 

Yeah the Voodoo 3 was a little power house!
It's usually easier to flash the 3500 BIOS onto it, and tweak the memory timings.

This is a great video showing just what that little card could do, up against the FX 5500 which came out 4 years later.
 

 

[X-System]

@Valentyn 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000, I have AGP version

 

I already posted the picture in this topic more than a year ago. I repost the picture (below right) :

 

 

Others CG are : nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 - ATI FireGL 4 - ATI VGA Wonder XL

[Valentyn]

Just now, X-System said:

@Valentyn 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000, I have AGP version

 

I already posted the picture in this topic more than a year ago. I repost the picture (below right) :

Others CG are : nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 - ATI FireGL 4 - ATI VGA Wonder XL

I have the following for just my 3DFX collection
Maxigamer 3D Voodoo 1

Diamond Dragon 3000 - Voodoo 2

3Dfx v2 1000 Voodoo 2 SLI

Stoned Shaman Voodoo 2 - 2019 remake cards - new

Diamond Monster Fusion - Banshee - open box

V3 1000 - OEM card

V3 2000 PCI - open boxed

V3 2000 AGP - open boxed

V3 3000 PCI - 2 open boxed different revision - 1 factory sealed

V3 3000 AGP - factory sealed

V3 3500 TV - 1 open box - 1 factory sealed

V4 4500 PCI - open box

V4 4500 AGP - open box

V5 5500 AGP - open box

V5 6000 - Prototype 3700 A

 

VoodooTV FM - open boxed

 

I'm also expecting a new V5 5800 Special Edition to arrive soon.
It's a V5 5500, with cores at 200Mhz, opposed to 166Mhz, and has 128MB, compared to 64MB.
It's serial #11, and my details put into the POST BIOS

 

 

I'm looking for a another 3dfx V2 1000, as my current boxed one I got is really rough looking, the original owner didn't care for it much. But I got two cards with the box at least.

 

 

There's a russian fella that got his hands on a bunch of 3dfx processors, and designed newer PCBs for the cards.

The Stoned Shaman is his Voodoo 2's.

 

I also have a little Soft sport for the Sparkle FX cards, especially because of their box art. Almost like they made a tribute to 3Dfx

[X-System]

@Valentyn I would like to have 3Dfx Quantum3D Obsidian. It's beast!

[Valentyn]

Just now, X-System said:

@Valentyn I would like to have 3Dfx Quantum3D Obsidian. It's beast!

I know a fella that found two at a local computer recycling place.

There's also one on sale on ebay, but the fella wants like €2500 shipping, and customs included, and the box is in shambles.

 

[X-System]

4 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

I have the following for just my 3DFX collection
Maxigamer 3D Voodoo 1

Diamond Dragon 3000 - Voodoo 2

3Dfx v2 1000 Voodoo 2 SLI

Stoned Shaman Voodoo 2 - 2019 remake cards - new

Diamond Monster Fusion - Banshee - open box

V3 1000 - OEM card

V3 2000 PCI - open boxed

V3 2000 AGP - open boxed

V3 3000 PCI - 2 open boxed different revision - 1 factory sealed

V3 3000 AGP - factory sealed

V3 3500 TV - 1 open box - 1 factory sealed

V4 4500 PCI - open box

V4 4500 AGP - open box

V5 5500 AGP - open box

V5 6000 - Prototype 3700 A

 

VoodooTV FM - open boxed

I don't have a lot 3Dfx cards but I have 3Dfx JAMMA (I will take a picture when I am at home after work)

 

And I have MaxiGamer 3D Voodoo 1 too (top left)

 

 

 

And I have 2x MaxiGamer 3D² 8MB SLI in my PIII rig

 

[Valentyn]

45 minutes ago, X-System said:

I don't have a lot 3Dfx cards but I have 3Dfx JAMMA (I will take a picture when I am at home after work)

 

And I have MaxiGamer 3D Voodoo 1 too (top left)

 

And I have 2x MaxiGamer 3D² 8MB SLI in my PIII rig

 

 

My Maxi gamer is a light green PCB.
I got super lucky, bought it for €23 on ebay, still new in the box!

 

Also the JAMMA? Definitely want a photo, and it's always good to see cards still being used!

My old P3 is dead, and gone. Recently ordered some new stuff to have 3 working systems.

Pentium 3 Coppermine 1Ghz - intel 440BX chipset

Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.4Ghz - Intel 815 chipset
Pentium 4 2.66Ghz Northwood - Universal AGP with SIS651 chipset ( going to try and get the BIOS flashed, to maybe get a better P4 )
Athlon XP 3000+ - KT333 chipset

ALSO! These two just arrived!

Still new sealed S3 Savage IX cards.
Broke the seal to take the photo of one, the other is a present for a friend.

[X-System]

@Valentyn For PIII motherboard, many years ago, I bought ASUS P3C-LS used for my PIII rig. It was like HEDT because this model has i820 chipset, Rambus PC800, AGP Pro, JumperFree and Adaptec 7892 Ultra160 SCSI controller

 

 

But I didn't used it long because it's not stable with games but I still have this motherboard for my collection

 

I also have ASUS P3C2000, it had replaced P3C-LS. And now, my PIII rig uses ASUS P2B-F

 

 

[Valentyn]

35 minutes ago, X-System said:

@Valentyn For PIII motherboard, many years ago, I bought ASUS P3C-LS used for my PIII rig. It was like HEDT because this model has i820 chipset, Rambus PC800, AGP Pro, JumperFree and Adaptec 7892 Ultra160 SCSI controller

 

But I didn't used it long because it's not stable with games but I still have this motherboard for my collection

 

I also have ASUS P3C2000, it had replaced P3C-LS. And now, my PIII rig uses ASUS P2B-F

 

I gave up on some workstation boards for gaming as well. You can get some dual core P3 socket 370 Tualitin cores, but they only have PCI slots, and even then aren't great for gaming in same cases.

I love my collecting, but I don't like the idea of spending a small fortune on dual socket boards, and trying to find one that'll play well with my stuff; and then just trying to resell or abandon.

 

The P2B-F is a very nice board.

I like the Abit BF6

[X-System]

46 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

I like the Abit BF6

I have ABIT BH6 motherboard

 

[Valentyn]

21 minutes ago, X-System said:

I have ABIT BH6 motherboard

 

I've actually one of those on my watch list to buy maybe.

Although I've ruined my account with my recent acqusitions, and that V5 6000 haha. Plenty hasn't even arrived yet.

[X-System]

@Valentyn 3Dfx JAMMA

 

[X-System]

@Valentyn other picture for year of production.

 

 

 

The big chip is Intel N80C51GB, year 1980.

[Valentyn]

28 minutes ago, X-System said:

@Valentyn 3Dfx JAMMA

 

 

That's in great condition! Absolutely lovely!

[Bitter]

5 hours ago, Valentyn said:

 

Yeah the Voodoo 3 was a little power house!
It's usually easier to flash the 3500 BIOS onto it, and tweak the memory timings.

This is a great video showing just what that little card could do, up against the FX 5500 which came out 4 years later.
 

 

I knew nothing of any of that, I was like 10 or 12 maybe at the time lol.

[X-System]

27 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

That's in great condition! Absolutely lovely!

I found my old email that I won eBay auction for 19,99 USD (and 29,99 USD for shipping fees), it was 9 years ago

[BrianTheElectrician]

2 hours ago, X-System said:

I have ABIT BH6 motherboard

The BH6 is a great board, I have a few of them. Apparently they were THE overclockers board back in the day. They just work lol I haven't had to mess with them much.

[Valentyn]

41 minutes ago, Bitter said:

I knew nothing of any of that, I was like 10 or 12 maybe at the time lol.

Well know you do!, Fantastic boards

 

24 minutes ago, X-System said:

I found my old email that I won eBay auction for 19,99 USD (and 29,99 USD for shipping fees), it was 9 years ago

So famn cheap, then again a decade ago.

I know a fella that got his Voodoo 6000's for $800 each, and his Obsidian SLI V2's for less as well.
 

[Bitter]

I've got some socket 370 Pentium stuff in my basement I'll never do anything with. Let me get some photos up, free+shipping is my price if anyone wants it. I think the board is a Soyo? CPUs are various Celeron, a copper mine, and if I can find it a tualatin that was lapped for OCing.

[Bitter]

Didn't locate the Tualatin at first pass. Have a Soyo Socket 370 board, a HP Socket 370, an unknown brand Slot A, an 866 Coppermine, a 1.1ghz Celeron, and a 700mhz Slot A Athlon, I'll dig through the rest and get more pictures of the rest of the stuff I've got left.

[BrianTheElectrician]

39 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Didn't locate the Tualatin at first pass. Have a Soyo Socket 370 board, a HP Socket 370, an unknown brand Slot A, an 866 Coppermine, a 1.1ghz Celeron, and a 700mhz Slot A Athlon, I'll dig through the rest and get more pictures of the rest of the stuff I've got left.

 

Oh boy lol I'm very very tempted by the athlon, especially if there's a matching motherboard!

 

17 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

All of that looks really appealing, but I wish I knew how to set up a Pentium III system--I've never had any experience with Windows 98 or earlier.

Setting up a pentium 3 isn't that different from a newer system, other than configuring the hard drives. For ide each channel can have a master and a slave device, and the drives have a jumper to set which they are. Most p3 boards I've seen most stuff is configured in the bios just like new systems, other than I'm sure a few exceptions. If you want to set one up I know I'm happy to help, as I'm sure others on here would be to as well.