Every advertisement that Tech Tangents is gonna see for the next two weeks will be for a PCI Ethernet card. Because algorithm be like "This guy must really like PCI Ethernet card(s)" let's spam him!
@@abergethirty same exact type of card, they made them for quite a number of platforms back in the day, its not so much a thing these days outside custom hardware, but then ram prices have dropped alot even on the server side... so...thats helped.... these had the same reason behind them as rambus terminators, far cheaper then more ram, and could be replaced with ram as prices came down. and rdram stuck around a bit longer in some server apps, but mostly...it died and nobody was sad... i mean... i can see some valid uses for the tech... as a buddy of mine told me and i had to read the tech info on one of the raid cards they still use for specific apps, 4 rdram slots, they used rdram specifically because with their custom controller it gives better perf to the 16 sas drives the thing typically controlls, but each port can be connected to a port multiplier on the cards they can get up to 36 drives per card (a couple ports are dedicated to normal drives in this mode, also has a neat ability to connect to another like card via 2 of the msas ports and chain cards togather... they im told use them alot for large database servers and setups with alot of redundancy .. oh also, the drives have a firmware update that gives them full support for SMR drives that require the host to manage the singling process, and the card managed that function on its own writing at full speed then shingling after writes are done for those files for a set time, if the company ever swaps them for newer cards hes going to make sure we each get a couple of the cards to play with... most cards only have 128-256mb on them(plenty even for large numbers of shingled drives) but a few have custom modules sold for specific servers that can let you get 2gb per card, when they decommissioned the servers they kept the ram, its most useful im told with large SSD raid arrays, more so if its a mix of SSD and hSMR drives with large capacities... oh, the ONLY good thing they have to say about the higher end RD ram they kept around... it runs alot cooler then the stuff that was on the consumer market at the time... im also told that its latency is not at all an issue, its still faster then the oboard memory of most raid cards, that have some pretty slow ram build in to the board or chipset.. im hoping to get one of the cards at some point so i can buy brand new unopened data center smr drives that need one of those cards to work.. i have a buddy who gets 8tb drives as low as 30-40usd pretty often since you must have a card to control them... no board outside a few rare server boards ship with a compatible chipset and firmware... those are weird server products made for specific jobs.. cpu sockets are the same in many older setups, and those cards could fail and cause you all sorts of weird issues without it being obvious the cpu socket terminator is whats failing and causing the issues...
I have the distinct impression that if I had the space and funds to do so, I would end up with a similarly massive collection of random computers and computer-adjacent paraphernalia. Living in a tech museum must be an interesting experience. I'd probably stick mostly to stuff from the late-90's to around 2010, though, since that's where my primary interests lie. Still cool to see this older tech being maintained, collected, and enjoyed. It's always nice to watch someone who is truly enthusiastic about the things he's working with, because that enthusiasm is infectious.
Shelby: my 2c. 7:45 - That looks like an Evergreen overdrive processor. Those usually have a 486 SLC on them to upgrade a 386 system. Some have AMD 5x86, but those are typically for 486 based machines. 22:32 - That appears to be a processor bus terminator. Dual Slot-1 boards that only ran 1 processor needed one of those to boot/post. It basically terminates the 2nd slot. Kind of like a RAMBUS Continuity module. 23:00 - That looks more like an AMD FirePro vs. a Radeon. FirePro's were well known for using that splitter cable, especially on Dell Precision machines. 25:21 - You missed 2 opprotunities to add to your "PCI Ethernet Card" :) 27:43 - That is called the "X-Jack" modem. Those are neat! And that badly yellowed CD-ROM drive with the blue buttons is actually made for the IBM PS/2. Those are hard to find. Loved the "PCI Ethernet Card" editing! That made me laugh every time you did that!
22:32 - That appears to be a processor bus terminator. / Looks like one and since its Micronics branded it would make sense although I have never seen a Micronics one before... that would match perfect in my Dual Fortress (dual P2 Micronics motherboard)
23:00 - That is a Radeon HD 2400 Pro, I've seen lots of them (especially in Dell machines). If you look very closely the heatsink has the Radeon logo on it.
Those IDE caddies with the 50-pin on the back were very common, the 50-pin was cheap and meant it could also carry the power. I remember having a ton of them.
Allow me to disseminate some information here.. 1) The Gigabyte motherboard with the onboard Creative Labs sound IA for a Socket A/462 32-bit CPU. That'd be a nice basis for a system to dual boot Win98SE and WinXP. 2) The box with the inventory label over the cool box art originally held a Pentium IV motherboard. The 370 board that's in it now is probably a budget or OEM board with integrated graphics. If it were mine, I'd pass it on to someone who needed it. 3) The ROM board that looked like a 72-pin SIMM could be for a mid-90s Macintosh. 4) To determine Intel Pentium 1 and 2 CPU speed, refer to the first line of letters and numbers toward the end of that line and look for 3 contiguous numbers. That should determine the speed with looking up the SLxxx or SYxxx model number. This may save you some trouble and time in the future. 4) To determine the capacity of those WD Caviar hard drives, look at the large print 4 or 5 digit number. Ignore the first digit and read the rest of that. If it's 4 digits, that will tell you what the capacity is in megabytes while ignoring the first digit. If it's 5 digits, that will tell you the capacity in gigabytes, but only the second digit is a whole number while the rest of it is less than 1. For example, if you had one that stated "11200", it would be a 1.2GB. If that's still confusing, the capacity in MBs is usually right there near that large print 4-5 digit number in rather small print below. A couple of notes here: 1) It would be nice for the sake of complete information as to state the CPU speed of the 286s. 2) When you get to make a video about that really cool floppy drive controller card, I really would like to see how feasible it would be to reverse engineer it. I myself have been looking for such a solution so that I could build a system to create floppy disks in a native environment for older systems. This would be part of the perfect bridge computer.
I believe the motherboard @31:20 has a "Universal AGP" slot so any AGP card should work in it. Those were pretty uncommon in the wild, and mostly unnecessary as few people were trying to use early AGP cards in the later motherboard environments common in the XP era.
AGP was sometimes prone to have people putting 1x and 2x cards into 8x slots. People were also confused by the AGP, AGP Pro, Universal AGP, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x. Thankfully PCIe is a lot more straightforward to use. The AGP issues remind me of the current USB standard and plugs issues where it confuses people.
It does. Unfortunately some manufacturers also used the universal connector on designs that were not truly universal (probably to simplify inventory) which leads to additional incompatibilities.
i used a good number of those evergreen chips, they are a 486 socket with a 5x86 chip, and you can overclock them, slap on a bigger sink and tinker, they are very forgiving.. and fun to mess with honestly... a very good upgrade option for those old systems that need just a bit more power to carry you till new platform upgrade prices came down, often though i upgraded peoples office systems with them, and it was worth it to a huge number of business clients... an instant upgrade that dropped in and just worked and was drastically faster then whatever was being swapped out.
I know this video is 5 months old. I just found your channel and I cannot believe you just pulled an HD 3650 1GB out of that haul. I was looking for that card in a specific config for months for a proper price! I found it funny cause I needed it for a video I was doing ages ago XD. Cool video though! As a collector I loved seeing your haul of old tech and things that you knew were more rare and more interesting!
We have 1000s of VpCL 126 bags. They are fairly narrow 5.5" and they are long 14" - 25". And on top of that they are open top (can be taped or heat sealed). They are made for storing metal parts and prevents corrosion. I can't find anything regarding their ESD properties. If you are interested in some let me know.
Always makes me laugh when I see videos with cards better than what I have on my (personal use) rig. Oh god bless you core 2 duo, you still keep chugging along happily - still even does cad work quite happily.
On those late Maxtor drives, they actually say made by Seagate (ie they are dual branded). Strange thing is I remember getting similar drives way before the takeover of maxtor was announced. So there was definitely collaboration between the companies long before maxtor was swallowed whole by seagate.
@@JoseLgamer05 I actually had 2, 1 died just as quick as others did, but 1 lasted all the way to 2019. Almost heartbroken when it finally died, certainly an oddity!
@@ErraticPT Mine died somewhat recently too, like 4-5 years ago, so it wasn't like it didn't last a long time for what it was, since they were dying much newer than that
The network card thing made me laugh, I think most of us that have old pcs have had about 20 of those somewhere at some point along with crappy softmodems.
I have a RAGE IIC. IIRC, It has weird graphical glitches when in BIOS text mode but that’s probably an issue with my specific card. Another thing regarding the motherboards: Many motherboard manufacturers still have manuals, firmware (BIOS) updates, and drivers for old motherboards. I recently downloaded a bunch for a socket 7 board I have. They may be worth archiving.
Lots of very cool stuff! Looking forward to the floppy controller video. As is obvious from all the comments this video already has, you'll probably get a definite ID just by holding a part up close to the camera. :) 6:49, the presence of a dash in the label tells me that CPU isn't SSPEC SX250, but rather an 80486 SX2 50MHz with SSPEC SX845. Also very interesting, imo. 'SY05'...SY005 Pentium 75? Classic Pentiums will have both the SSPEC and model number like A80502-75 on both the front and back (later without the dash, or a leading BP instead of the A for retail boxed CPUs). There will also be an 'ICOMP' performance rating etched into the front that will help identify the model. 7:35 This is most likely an AMD 5x86-133 or (less commonly) a Cyrix 586-133. Interesting that it's jumpered for WT cache. 12:02 The Asus motherboard will be a P2B of some flavor. The stickers on the bottom ISA slot will tell more. 13:26 MSI MS4143 486 motherboard. Looks like 256KB of cache, by the jumpers. From well into the Pentium era--it would have been a budget board at the time--but is now a very nice base for a high-end 486 build with a PCI video card. It has all the clock options for experimenting with the max speed of that Evergreen module. Probably doesn't support EDO very well, though. FPM is likely a better choice. 24:20 FB-DIMMs for workstation/server motherboards; 2006-2009ish (Xeon Dempsey to Dunnington, I believe). Serial interface for better reliability at higher densities and speed (at the time). 25:22 Those are more PCI ETHERNET CARDS! (not modems) The Davicom dm9102 was ubiquitous around 2001-ish, even more than the Linksys in my experience.
My name is John Titor. I have traveled from a dying future to your time to seek a rare and precious device that may be the last hope of humanity: The PCI Ethernet Card
22:32 That is a terminator for the second CPU slot of a dual slot 1 (Pentium 2/3) motherboard for when you only have a single CPU installed e.g. Gigabyte GA-6BXD (I still have mine).
This video was like Christmas presents to me. Terapeuthic and brings to my memory the few times I was able to put my hands in (much smaller) lots. Enjoy !!!
I had X-Jack modem and Ethernet cards for my old Omnibook 900. I was surprised that they also had dongle connectors on them, but since I bought them used I didn't see if they came with dongles or were an optional thing.
That Gigabyte card, I think they made a 9600 GT with an even larger cooler. And that Maxtor drive is definitely a rebranded Barracuda 7200.9/10 from the look of it.
WOW I love these random hardware hoard videos. That MSI Radeon HD 6870 1gb takes me back. Those are mini display ports at the top of the I/O bracket.. I built my first real gaming rig in 2010 that had 2 of those running in crossfire on a EVGA x58 SLI-3 motherboard w/ core i7 960. You never forget your first gaming pc lol. Looks like you might need to try tossing together a rig to put both those cards to use! Keep up the great work!
Seeing those CPU's specially the Celeron 366 brings back memories, I remember overclocking the crap out of it. Where it originally runs at 66MHz with a locked 5.5 multiplier often you could run these at 75MHz or 83MHz but I was lucky enough to be able to run it on a 100MHz bus via a slot 1 to Socket 370 adapter and run it at a stable 550MHz. Although I had overclocked CPU's before not to such extend as with this one and it introduced me to a whole other aspect of the hobby later with friends finding new ways to cool our overclocks with Peltiers and water cooling in early 2000's although I didn't venture in liquid nitrogen cooling, some guys I knew started with extreme cooling trying to break records. Good memories being hardware enthusiasts on the forefront of tech back in the day, specially seeing how fast things progressed compared to nowadays.
It's funny how ubiquitous PCI Ethernet cards were back in the late 90s/early 2000s before they were commonly included on motherboard. I know I've got my fair share of them in a drawer out in the garage
It's taking me ages to watch this video, because I keep pausing to think about all the stuff I was using circa 2000. Soon as I saw your D-Link it brought back memories of using my Netgear FA311 cards and then boom......... you bring one of those out too! 😂 Rock solid card and easy to use and setup. * EDIT: Just found some old photos of a D-Link DFE-538TX on my drive, so I had one of those as well lol.
33:14 I realize this is an old video but if you haven't figured out a way to get that shipping bag off yet look for a product call UN-DU works on almost any sticker adhesive and doesn't damage paper.
Would it be possible to 3D print a pin cover/cradle for the PGA CPUs? Something to keep the pins from getting bent up, while also keeping the chance of ESD lower as well? Would probably be better and safer than foam
44:52 thats an internal hard drive for a fat ps2, the one included with the hdd + ethernet adapter (nowadays u can get a cheap one that even supports sata or get the original adapter and put a different hdd instead tbh)
I have one of those silent pipe graphics type cards with the huge heatsink and no fan. I was testing it the other day. While it works it does get extremely hot when running because of not having a fan to cool it.
Some of this brings back memories. I used several Promise IDE controllers in my Pentium 3 systems.. I remember them being really good. I also had Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 and 3000s for a couple early Pentium systems (I believe you found one in the last video) they weren't the fastest but I remember them being good solid video cards for their day. I remember the absolute horror of SCSI configuration and a scanner that would only work with one specific SCSI card and we had to trash it when the SCSI card quit working. I still have the cpu from my first serious computer. A 486 DX4/100 my parents gave me when they got a Pentium 166...i wish I had a motherboard still but if I remember right the caps leaked everywhere and I threw it out like an idiot. That system got replaced when the VLB storage/io controller died and couldn't get a replacement anywhere where I lived :(
Heh, the multiple overlapping PCI ethernet cards makes you sound like the Borg. "We are the Borg. Your PCI ethernet cards will be assimilated. Resistance is voltage over cur... er, I mean, resistance is futile."
You love those Caviar drives.... I saw so many people, including myself, loose their drive because of the seal around the edge that is REALLY easy to rub off installing and uninstalling. Once you are aware of it is possible to deal with, but it is a horrible design. The later ones has a rubber bumper wrapped around it to prevent this. Shame as they were affordable, fast, and if installed properly, rock solid.
31:15 I used to have an AOpen AX37 Pro too long ago! I gave the system to a family member and unfortunately a few years later it stopped working and when I took a look at it almost every single capacitor around the CPU bulged and leaked.
I remember a time I would have drooled over most of these parts like a dog... Lol. My first build, Asus A7V133 board with a K7 AMD Athlon running at 1.4 gig, 512 of ram running XP on a 80 gig HDD and a Nvidia FX5200. Back then I was in PC heaven, ran every game I put in it flawlessly. Something about building your first PC from scratch you just can't forget, from there on you're never the same. It''s build your own PC or nothing... been at it ever since.
@@CantankerousDave I still regularly use my old PC with a GA-6BXC mainboard - mostly when I need to scan film, since my old (but still very high quality) Minolta film scanner does not work with newer PCs.
The twin frozr hd 6870 is a pretty nice one, the hd 6870 released late October 2010 so direct x 11 & not any further then that, does most e-sports games that can run on direct x 11 or open gl 4.1 Not exactly a super quick card these days but 1 card alone can handle multiple 2560x1600 displays on all digital ports the card has while the analog port is 2048 x 1536, though might be possible too force a custom resolution with some messing around that works in a higher resolution then this. I'd love too source a gpu with a specific version of that cooler because of how good it looks. Any of the MSI twin frozr copper edition/golden edition cards.
Beautiful design on that one, but I love Twin Frozr coolers in general, my last two have it as well. I had a 6870 by Asus (reference blow-out design, not the "DC" variant) that was hot, loud and really struggled by 2015 when it finally cooked itself and died. The biggest limitation was the 1 GB of VRAM, I remember it struggled a lot with GTA V because of that (not necessarily fps-wise) and Fallout 4.
I had an MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II, gorgeous card, and pretty fast back then. I've tried this year to buy it back from that one that I sold to, but the card broke years ago, apparently.
LOL - back in the early 2000s, 10/100BaseT PCI ethernet cards were so common that any tech had box loads of them. They were not cheap new, but had zero value used. You could not give them away. That GTX 7800 is quite a bit smaller than the 768Mb one I had, which was an Asus I believe. It was the one and only time I bought a top of the line system... the GPU was not cheap at 700 dollars Canadian. It was paired with an FX 64X2 which was also not cheep at $1000.00. I do not recall the memory config. The 7800s performance was incredible for the day and was not matched by regular consumer cards for years. I was less impressed with the FX chip as it really did not warrant the price premium over the regular Athalon. The FX and its mobo (probably an Asus) died when a power supply failed, and I do not recall what I did with the 7800.
Those TV cards are pretty much the same as the SDR USB dongles, so you can use these for DVB-T/C or for DVB-S, T and C so aerial and cable tv are the same board/usb adapter the satellite ones are different. So, check. You can even use these to receive a lot of other stuff than just TV, for example Weather satellites data, Airplane ID/Location broadcasts etc etc etc. I would recommend you checking them youtube clips about SDR cards, these are AWESOME TOYS! And of course you can just use those and make a TVHeadend TV server for your home network so anyone in it can receive TV over the network. Only one channel at a time per card (usually) but as long as you have CPU and bandwidth you can have as many clients on the same channel as you wish (well sort of)
That ax850 powersupply is really nice if it works as it should, might be able too buy completely new cables for it as well if any of them are missing or if it turns out one or two of them are not the right pinout & are from another powersupply of some sort. Also that flashcard... Had one as well at one point which i think was flashed with some firmware too modify a tv tuner of all things together with a reader for a bunch of those rfid chip cards tv tuners from the mid 2000's uses.
It's already been done! archive.org/details/sun-4311 Turns out it's a lot weirder than just a floppy controller though. After thinking more about it, I think the BIOS might be trying to map some drives into the HDD space in BIOS which could theoretically be used to have 12 floppy drives in one system at the cost of being able to use HDDs. It's really weird and I did a stream testing it that will be going up on the second channel soon.
sure wish power supply cables were still colored on the ends so a person could easily repin them.. getting harder to find ide optical drives that read both dvd and cd.. and those ide hard drives are getting hard to find..
If you haven't tested those hard drives. I'd like a ASMR, of testing the hard drives and Optical drives. Install a game like Need for Speed high stakes onto each of the drives, and record all the sounds from the optic drives and hard drive separately.
32:09 I remember those weird small slots. Nowadays my brain immediately goes to PCIe, but that ain't it. I think some motherboard manufacturers wanted to push some kind of new slot type that is specialised in some way for... Modems, audio, multimedia, that sort of thing, iirc. Needless to say, it failed horrendously 😀
Not sure if its an AMR (audio-modem riser) or a CNR (communications-networking riser) slot. Might have "AMR" or "CNR" silkscreened by it? CNR replaced AMR.
486 board with pci-e and usb 2.0 connectivity would be a wet dream of every DOS enthusiast. I tried core2quad (overkill) with 512MB RAM on a ATI x300-ish a week ago and Alley Cat worked fine on it. I was blown away by that even being possible. The most recent optional-UEFI system I got is Broadwell (no idea what it is, can't remember) and I'd do some stuff with it if I had a decent English speaker to narrate the videos, my Balkanese is barely resembling English and I just lose any motivation to publish a video when I make it. I can't even understand what I'm saying, how can an audience member supposed to cope with my balkan-ish English-like inflictions and pronunciation.
use Google translate, text to speech etc.speech synthesis. accented English can be fun, do a video and ask people. you would be shocked and amused by how a lot of average Brits talk.
If you have a Pentium 233 mhz MMX board and CPU I really want it that was my favorite old school intel cpu it was awesome! I would want to have an old school case to put it in oh my god the 233mhz mmx was the shiz for DOS and windows 98..
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Laughed so hard at that Ethernet card gag, great stuff!
I can feel the editing madness creep in with each “PCI Ethernet Card” 😂
It certainly made my day :D
Every advertisement that Tech Tangents is gonna see for the next two weeks will be for a PCI Ethernet card.
Because algorithm be like "This guy must really like PCI Ethernet card(s)" let's spam him!
whole hallways, rooms, so it gets a little confusing
Made me smile each time!
Ikr
That mystery "RAM card" is a slot 1 terminator. You use it in dual slot 1 motherboards when you only have one CPU installed.
I thought it might have been Rambus. That wasn't around very long and it had blank cards that bridged empty memory slots.
@@abergethirty same exact type of card, they made them for quite a number of platforms back in the day, its not so much a thing these days outside custom hardware, but then ram prices have dropped alot even on the server side... so...thats helped....
these had the same reason behind them as rambus terminators, far cheaper then more ram, and could be replaced with ram as prices came down.
and rdram stuck around a bit longer in some server apps, but mostly...it died and nobody was sad... i mean... i can see some valid uses for the tech... as a buddy of mine told me and i had to read the tech info on one of the raid cards they still use for specific apps, 4 rdram slots, they used rdram specifically because with their custom controller it gives better perf to the 16 sas drives the thing typically controlls, but each port can be connected to a port multiplier on the cards they can get up to 36 drives per card (a couple ports are dedicated to normal drives in this mode, also has a neat ability to connect to another like card via 2 of the msas ports and chain cards togather... they im told use them alot for large database servers and setups with alot of redundancy .. oh also, the drives have a firmware update that gives them full support for SMR drives that require the host to manage the singling process, and the card managed that function on its own writing at full speed then shingling after writes are done for those files for a set time, if the company ever swaps them for newer cards hes going to make sure we each get a couple of the cards to play with... most cards only have 128-256mb on them(plenty even for large numbers of shingled drives) but a few have custom modules sold for specific servers that can let you get 2gb per card, when they decommissioned the servers they kept the ram, its most useful im told with large SSD raid arrays, more so if its a mix of SSD and hSMR drives with large capacities...
oh, the ONLY good thing they have to say about the higher end RD ram they kept around... it runs alot cooler then the stuff that was on the consumer market at the time... im also told that its latency is not at all an issue, its still faster then the oboard memory of most raid cards, that have some pretty slow ram build in to the board or chipset..
im hoping to get one of the cards at some point so i can buy brand new unopened data center smr drives that need one of those cards to work.. i have a buddy who gets 8tb drives as low as 30-40usd pretty often since you must have a card to control them... no board outside a few rare server boards ship with a compatible chipset and firmware... those are weird server products made for specific jobs..
cpu sockets are the same in many older setups, and those cards could fail and cause you all sorts of weird issues without it being obvious the cpu socket terminator is whats failing and causing the issues...
came here to post this, way late to the game
I have the distinct impression that if I had the space and funds to do so, I would end up with a similarly massive collection of random computers and computer-adjacent paraphernalia. Living in a tech museum must be an interesting experience. I'd probably stick mostly to stuff from the late-90's to around 2010, though, since that's where my primary interests lie. Still cool to see this older tech being maintained, collected, and enjoyed. It's always nice to watch someone who is truly enthusiastic about the things he's working with, because that enthusiasm is infectious.
4:28 "My name is Shelby and I collect CPUs and CPU accessories."
Shelby: my 2c.
7:45 - That looks like an Evergreen overdrive processor. Those usually have a 486 SLC on them to upgrade a 386 system. Some have AMD 5x86, but those are typically for 486 based machines.
22:32 - That appears to be a processor bus terminator. Dual Slot-1 boards that only ran 1 processor needed one of those to boot/post. It basically terminates the 2nd slot. Kind of like a RAMBUS Continuity module.
23:00 - That looks more like an AMD FirePro vs. a Radeon. FirePro's were well known for using that splitter cable, especially on Dell Precision machines.
25:21 - You missed 2 opprotunities to add to your "PCI Ethernet Card" :)
27:43 - That is called the "X-Jack" modem. Those are neat!
And that badly yellowed CD-ROM drive with the blue buttons is actually made for the IBM PS/2. Those are hard to find.
Loved the "PCI Ethernet Card" editing! That made me laugh every time you did that!
The Evergreen upgrade shown in the video is the AMD 5x86 hands down as I got one just like it in my collection.
22:32 - That appears to be a processor bus terminator. / Looks like one and since its Micronics branded it would make sense although I have never seen a Micronics one before... that would match perfect in my Dual Fortress (dual P2 Micronics motherboard)
23:00 - That is a Radeon HD 2400 Pro, I've seen lots of them (especially in Dell machines). If you look very closely the heatsink has the Radeon logo on it.
10:20 => Ethernet PCI Card
17:12 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
17:29 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
18:43 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
20:00 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
20:14 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
22:54 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
28:40 => *PCI Ethernet Card*
Those IDE caddies with the 50-pin on the back were very common, the 50-pin was cheap and meant it could also carry the power. I remember having a ton of them.
"sorry guys, it's not going to be a visually interesting video"
10 minutes later: PCI ETHERNET CARDS
I love this video
32:00 That’s a universal AGP slot my dude, you’ll notice that the previous Aopen board also had one.
Someone better make the 'PCI Ethernet card' a Tech Tangents meme, that'd be perfection
@41:45 that centronics makes it easy to sled into a drive swap bay, which just puts it back to normal IDE and power to the PC
Ide caddy
"It's a Toshiba so it's dead"
I feel that in my soul.
16:18 Awesome, an S3 video *_de_* - celerator card!
Allow me to disseminate some information here..
1) The Gigabyte motherboard with the onboard Creative Labs sound IA for a Socket A/462 32-bit CPU. That'd be a nice basis for a system to dual boot Win98SE and WinXP.
2) The box with the inventory label over the cool box art originally held a Pentium IV motherboard. The 370 board that's in it now is probably a budget or OEM board with integrated graphics. If it were mine, I'd pass it on to someone who needed it.
3) The ROM board that looked like a 72-pin SIMM could be for a mid-90s Macintosh.
4) To determine Intel Pentium 1 and 2 CPU speed, refer to the first line of letters and numbers toward the end of that line and look for 3 contiguous numbers. That should determine the speed with looking up the SLxxx or SYxxx model number. This may save you some trouble and time in the future.
4) To determine the capacity of those WD Caviar hard drives, look at the large print 4 or 5 digit number. Ignore the first digit and read the rest of that. If it's 4 digits, that will tell you what the capacity is in megabytes while ignoring the first digit. If it's 5 digits, that will tell you the capacity in gigabytes, but only the second digit is a whole number while the rest of it is less than 1. For example, if you had one that stated "11200", it would be a 1.2GB. If that's still confusing, the capacity in MBs is usually right there near that large print 4-5 digit number in rather small print below.
A couple of notes here:
1) It would be nice for the sake of complete information as to state the CPU speed of the 286s.
2) When you get to make a video about that really cool floppy drive controller card, I really would like to see how feasible it would be to reverse engineer it. I myself have been looking for such a solution so that I could build a system to create floppy disks in a native environment for older systems. This would be part of the perfect bridge computer.
PCI ETHERNET CARD
Love the videos, glad I found your channel! I am an old school collector as well, though on a smaller scale lol
I believe the motherboard @31:20 has a "Universal AGP" slot so any AGP card should work in it. Those were pretty uncommon in the wild, and mostly unnecessary as few people were trying to use early AGP cards in the later motherboard environments common in the XP era.
AGP was sometimes prone to have people putting 1x and 2x cards into 8x slots. People were also confused by the AGP, AGP Pro, Universal AGP, 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x. Thankfully PCIe is a lot more straightforward to use. The AGP issues remind me of the current USB standard and plugs issues where it confuses people.
It does. Unfortunately some manufacturers also used the universal connector on designs that were not truly universal (probably to simplify inventory) which leads to additional incompatibilities.
i used a good number of those evergreen chips, they are a 486 socket with a 5x86 chip, and you can overclock them, slap on a bigger sink and tinker, they are very forgiving.. and fun to mess with honestly... a very good upgrade option for those old systems that need just a bit more power to carry you till new platform upgrade prices came down, often though i upgraded peoples office systems with them, and it was worth it to a huge number of business clients... an instant upgrade that dropped in and just worked and was drastically faster then whatever was being swapped out.
Yay! The missing foot from that one case that can be either a tower or desktop.
22:39 As others pointed out, that could be a cpu slot terminator .. for single-cpu usage in dual-cpu slot-1 boards. ;)
I know this video is 5 months old. I just found your channel and I cannot believe you just pulled an HD 3650 1GB out of that haul. I was looking for that card in a specific config for months for a proper price! I found it funny cause I needed it for a video I was doing ages ago XD. Cool video though! As a collector I loved seeing your haul of old tech and things that you knew were more rare and more interesting!
We have 1000s of VpCL 126 bags. They are fairly narrow 5.5" and they are long 14" - 25". And on top of that they are open top (can be taped or heat sealed).
They are made for storing metal parts and prevents corrosion. I can't find anything regarding their ESD properties.
If you are interested in some let me know.
Theraputic for me. Thanks for getting me into old technology and old tech. :D
Always makes me laugh when I see videos with cards better than what I have on my (personal use) rig. Oh god bless you core 2 duo, you still keep chugging along happily - still even does cad work quite happily.
On those late Maxtor drives, they actually say made by Seagate (ie they are dual branded).
Strange thing is I remember getting similar drives way before the takeover of maxtor was announced.
So there was definitely collaboration between the companies long before maxtor was swallowed whole by seagate.
I mean i have a WD drive that looks EXACTLY like a death star so...
And yes, it's dead
@@JoseLgamer05 I actually had 2, 1 died just as quick as others did, but 1 lasted all the way to 2019. Almost heartbroken when it finally died, certainly an oddity!
@@ErraticPT Mine died somewhat recently too, like 4-5 years ago, so it wasn't like it didn't last a long time for what it was, since they were dying much newer than that
"That one, is one of the heaviest things I've ever picked up in my life, and I own Data General hard drives." Great line!
That evergreen chip is almost certainly an Am5x86-133. The "P28" is actually the "P2B" -- one of the best slot 1 boards made.
The network card thing made me laugh, I think most of us that have old pcs have had about 20 of those somewhere at some point along with crappy softmodems.
I have a RAGE IIC. IIRC, It has weird graphical glitches when in BIOS text mode but that’s probably an issue with my specific card.
Another thing regarding the motherboards: Many motherboard manufacturers still have manuals, firmware (BIOS) updates, and drivers for old motherboards. I recently downloaded a bunch for a socket 7 board I have. They may be worth archiving.
That 8-bit floppy controller than can be the second device - I want to see where that goes.
Lots of very cool stuff! Looking forward to the floppy controller video.
As is obvious from all the comments this video already has, you'll probably get a definite ID just by holding a part up close to the camera. :)
6:49, the presence of a dash in the label tells me that CPU isn't SSPEC SX250, but rather an 80486 SX2 50MHz with SSPEC SX845. Also very interesting, imo.
'SY05'...SY005 Pentium 75? Classic Pentiums will have both the SSPEC and model number like A80502-75 on both the front and back (later without the dash, or a leading BP instead of the A for retail boxed CPUs). There will also be an 'ICOMP' performance rating etched into the front that will help identify the model.
7:35 This is most likely an AMD 5x86-133 or (less commonly) a Cyrix 586-133. Interesting that it's jumpered for WT cache.
12:02 The Asus motherboard will be a P2B of some flavor. The stickers on the bottom ISA slot will tell more.
13:26 MSI MS4143 486 motherboard. Looks like 256KB of cache, by the jumpers. From well into the Pentium era--it would have been a budget board at the time--but is now a very nice base for a high-end 486 build with a PCI video card. It has all the clock options for experimenting with the max speed of that Evergreen module. Probably doesn't support EDO very well, though. FPM is likely a better choice.
24:20 FB-DIMMs for workstation/server motherboards; 2006-2009ish (Xeon Dempsey to Dunnington, I believe). Serial interface for better reliability at higher densities and speed (at the time).
25:22 Those are more PCI ETHERNET CARDS! (not modems) The Davicom dm9102 was ubiquitous around 2001-ish, even more than the Linksys in my experience.
The "PCI Ethernet Card" bit made me laugh really hard.. thanks! I needad that!
The receipt at 16:00 has the full CC details on it. I dunno if RUclips might take issue so thought I'd let ya know.
Reminds me of Weird Al's "It's all about the Pentiums baby"
the plastic foot you found is for the plastic acer computers 386-486 era stuff
My name is John Titor. I have traveled from a dying future to your time to seek a rare and precious device that may be the last hope of humanity: The PCI Ethernet Card
It's sad that lgr couldn't keep those pc parts but at least he gave it to you. It's a nice gesture.
31:31 that motherboard supports DDR memory as it is a Pentium 3 platform!
22:32
That is a terminator for the second CPU slot of a dual slot 1 (Pentium 2/3) motherboard for when you only have a single CPU installed e.g. Gigabyte GA-6BXD (I still have mine).
41:48 I had one of those hdd "caddy" you mount into 5" bay for my 8gb barracuda. I bought it for sneaker-net purposes. None of my friends did. :/
Those Sound Blaster Live cards were the best. I was kind of bummed out when I could no longer use it when I built my new computer in 2016.
This video was like Christmas presents to me. Terapeuthic and brings to my memory the few times I was able to put my hands in (much smaller) lots. Enjoy !!!
I had X-Jack modem and Ethernet cards for my old Omnibook 900. I was surprised that they also had dongle connectors on them, but since I bought them used I didn't see if they came with dongles or were an optional thing.
That Gigabyte card, I think they made a 9600 GT with an even larger cooler. And that Maxtor drive is definitely a rebranded Barracuda 7200.9/10 from the look of it.
I have one of those 9600 GT’s, was a nice upgrade when I bought it. I now have the passive 9800 GT too
WOW I love these random hardware hoard videos. That MSI Radeon HD 6870 1gb takes me back. Those are mini display ports at the top of the I/O bracket.. I built my first real gaming rig in 2010 that had 2 of those running in crossfire on a EVGA x58 SLI-3 motherboard w/ core i7 960. You never forget your first gaming pc lol. Looks like you might need to try tossing together a rig to put both those cards to use! Keep up the great work!
Seeing those CPU's specially the Celeron 366 brings back memories, I remember overclocking the crap out of it. Where it originally runs at 66MHz with a locked 5.5 multiplier often you could run these at 75MHz or 83MHz but I was lucky enough to be able to run it on a 100MHz bus via a slot 1 to Socket 370 adapter and run it at a stable 550MHz. Although I had overclocked CPU's before not to such extend as with this one and it introduced me to a whole other aspect of the hobby later with friends finding new ways to cool our overclocks with Peltiers and water cooling in early 2000's although I didn't venture in liquid nitrogen cooling, some guys I knew started with extreme cooling trying to break records. Good memories being hardware enthusiasts on the forefront of tech back in the day, specially seeing how fast things progressed compared to nowadays.
Those twin Frozor cards should support (crossfire) and dx10. Can try out some "modern" gaming!
It's funny how ubiquitous PCI Ethernet cards were back in the late 90s/early 2000s before they were commonly included on motherboard. I know I've got my fair share of them in a drawer out in the garage
those promise ata cards can be modified easily into the full raid versions, we did that alot, actually worked very well.
It's taking me ages to watch this video, because I keep pausing to think about all the stuff I was using circa 2000. Soon as I saw your D-Link it brought back memories of using my Netgear FA311 cards and then boom......... you bring one of those out too! 😂 Rock solid card and easy to use and setup. * EDIT: Just found some old photos of a D-Link DFE-538TX on my drive, so I had one of those as well lol.
The Asus Pentium II board is p2b, not p28 :)
Exciting to see what's in the boxes!
Nice board! P2B + 350MHz PII is exactly what I built back in the late 90s, and still have running in my retro fleet today.
33:14 I realize this is an old video but if you haven't figured out a way to get that shipping bag off yet look for a product call UN-DU works on almost any sticker adhesive and doesn't damage paper.
i like the part when he says *P C I E T H E R N E T C A R D*
Would it be possible to 3D print a pin cover/cradle for the PGA CPUs? Something to keep the pins from getting bent up, while also keeping the chance of ESD lower as well? Would probably be better and safer than foam
44:52 thats an internal hard drive for a fat ps2, the one included with the hdd + ethernet adapter (nowadays u can get a cheap one that even supports sata or get the original adapter and put a different hdd instead tbh)
Dude long form is great, keep going
A socket 7 system with AGP? That is pretty sweet.
I have one of those silent pipe graphics type cards with the huge heatsink and no fan. I was testing it the other day. While it works it does get extremely hot when running because of not having a fan to cool it.
Some of this brings back memories. I used several Promise IDE controllers in my Pentium 3 systems.. I remember them being really good. I also had Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 and 3000s for a couple early Pentium systems (I believe you found one in the last video) they weren't the fastest but I remember them being good solid video cards for their day. I remember the absolute horror of SCSI configuration and a scanner that would only work with one specific SCSI card and we had to trash it when the SCSI card quit working.
I still have the cpu from my first serious computer. A 486 DX4/100 my parents gave me when they got a Pentium 166...i wish I had a motherboard still but if I remember right the caps leaked everywhere and I threw it out like an idiot. That system got replaced when the VLB storage/io controller died and couldn't get a replacement anywhere where I lived :(
I used them to do video capture on drives that weren’t horrifyingly expensive ultra SCSI. I keep a few around for nostalgia.
44:00 DPTA series reliability still quite okay
That was a serious haul! I'll bet most of those HDD's work, even the Toshiba.
Ugg the PCMCIA print server. I don't know how they would do it without a list of working cards. It would need to have drivers built in. Yuck.
Heh, the multiple overlapping PCI ethernet cards makes you sound like the Borg.
"We are the Borg. Your PCI ethernet cards will be assimilated. Resistance is voltage over cur... er, I mean, resistance is futile."
i just kept waiting for another "PCI EtHeRnEt CaRd"
Ayyyy my dude from Phoenix
Hmu I have tons of old pc parts and games from early 90s to the early 2000s
You love those Caviar drives.... I saw so many people, including myself, loose their drive because of the seal around the edge that is REALLY easy to rub off installing and uninstalling. Once you are aware of it is possible to deal with, but it is a horrible design. The later ones has a rubber bumper wrapped around it to prevent this. Shame as they were affordable, fast, and if installed properly, rock solid.
31:15 I used to have an AOpen AX37 Pro too long ago! I gave the system to a family member and unfortunately a few years later it stopped working and when I took a look at it almost every single capacitor around the CPU bulged and leaked.
I remember a time I would have drooled over most of these parts like a dog... Lol. My first build, Asus A7V133 board with a K7 AMD Athlon running at 1.4 gig, 512 of ram running XP on a 80 gig HDD and a Nvidia FX5200. Back then I was in PC heaven, ran every game I put in it flawlessly. Something about building your first PC from scratch you just can't forget, from there on you're never the same. It''s build your own PC or nothing... been at it ever since.
The AOpen AX6BC motherboard is a gem, definitely one of the best 440BX motherboards out there (along with ASUS P3B-F and Gigabyte GA-6BXC)
Heh, I still have a P3B-F sitting in its box. Lots of good memories with that board.
@@CantankerousDave I still regularly use my old PC with a GA-6BXC mainboard - mostly when I need to scan film, since my old (but still very high quality) Minolta film scanner does not work with newer PCs.
The twin frozr hd 6870 is a pretty nice one, the hd 6870 released late October 2010 so direct x 11 & not any further then that, does most e-sports games that can run on direct x 11 or open gl 4.1
Not exactly a super quick card these days but 1 card alone can handle multiple 2560x1600 displays on all digital ports the card has while the analog port is 2048 x 1536, though might be possible too force a custom resolution with some messing around that works in a higher resolution then this.
I'd love too source a gpu with a specific version of that cooler because of how good it looks.
Any of the MSI twin frozr copper edition/golden edition cards.
Beautiful design on that one, but I love Twin Frozr coolers in general, my last two have it as well.
I had a 6870 by Asus (reference blow-out design, not the "DC" variant) that was hot, loud and really struggled by 2015 when it finally cooked itself and died. The biggest limitation was the 1 GB of VRAM, I remember it struggled a lot with GTA V because of that (not necessarily fps-wise) and Fallout 4.
I had an MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II, gorgeous card, and pretty fast back then. I've tried this year to buy it back from that one that I sold to, but the card broke years ago, apparently.
28:40..
PCI Ethernet Card!!
xD
LOL - back in the early 2000s, 10/100BaseT PCI ethernet cards were so common that any tech had box loads of them. They were not cheap new, but had zero value used. You could not give them away. That GTX 7800 is quite a bit smaller than the 768Mb one I had, which was an Asus I believe. It was the one and only time I bought a top of the line system... the GPU was not cheap at 700 dollars Canadian. It was paired with an FX 64X2 which was also not cheep at $1000.00. I do not recall the memory config. The 7800s performance was incredible for the day and was not matched by regular consumer cards for years. I was less impressed with the FX chip as it really did not warrant the price premium over the regular Athalon. The FX and its mobo (probably an Asus) died when a power supply failed, and I do not recall what I did with the 7800.
Those TV cards are pretty much the same as the SDR USB dongles, so you can use these for DVB-T/C or for DVB-S, T and C so aerial and cable tv are the same board/usb adapter the satellite ones are different. So, check. You can even use these to receive a lot of other stuff than just TV, for example Weather satellites data, Airplane ID/Location broadcasts etc etc etc. I would recommend you checking them youtube clips about SDR cards, these are AWESOME TOYS!
And of course you can just use those and make a TVHeadend TV server for your home network so anyone in it can receive TV over the network. Only one channel at a time per card (usually) but as long as you have CPU and bandwidth you can have as many clients on the same channel as you wish (well sort of)
That ax850 powersupply is really nice if it works as it should, might be able too buy completely new cables for it as well if any of them are missing or if it turns out one or two of them are not the right pinout & are from another powersupply of some sort.
Also that flashcard... Had one as well at one point which i think was flashed with some firmware too modify a tv tuner of all things together with a reader for a bunch of those rfid chip cards tv tuners from the mid 2000's uses.
That's not the same floppy card that Adrian fried the bios on, is it? You should definitely make a dump of it.
It's already been done! archive.org/details/sun-4311
Turns out it's a lot weirder than just a floppy controller though. After thinking more about it, I think the BIOS might be trying to map some drives into the HDD space in BIOS which could theoretically be used to have 12 floppy drives in one system at the cost of being able to use HDDs. It's really weird and I did a stream testing it that will be going up on the second channel soon.
There's never enough PCI Ethernet cards! 😆
I can see a vintage build coming =)
That 3650 is sick, i had a 3850 that looked very similar
This is the real unboxing/mystery box experience
sure wish power supply cables were still colored on the ends so a person could easily repin them.. getting harder to find ide optical drives that read both dvd and cd.. and those ide hard drives are getting hard to find..
22:30 that reminds me of the terminator ya have to use on duel slot Pentium 3
Hm... could also be a cache chip ?
30:00 those may be IBM XT ROMs w/ ROM basic.
If you haven't tested those hard drives.
I'd like a ASMR, of testing the hard drives and Optical drives. Install a game like Need for Speed high stakes onto each of the drives, and record all the sounds from the optic drives and hard drive separately.
I saved up newpaper delivery money as a teenager to buy a Ti 59 with the red led display and mag stripe reader / rom socket
22:35 Look up C.O.A.S.T. Cache on a stick. 256K or 512K cache.
Saw a sweet Mechwarrior box on your game shelf!
32:09 I remember those weird small slots. Nowadays my brain immediately goes to PCIe, but that ain't it. I think some motherboard manufacturers wanted to push some kind of new slot type that is specialised in some way for... Modems, audio, multimedia, that sort of thing, iirc.
Needless to say, it failed horrendously 😀
Not sure if its an AMR (audio-modem riser) or a CNR (communications-networking riser) slot. Might have "AMR" or "CNR" silkscreened by it? CNR replaced AMR.
Dolby could use eight parts of this video as Atmos demo material. :)
486 board with pci-e and usb 2.0 connectivity would be a wet dream of every DOS enthusiast. I tried core2quad (overkill) with 512MB RAM on a ATI x300-ish a week ago and Alley Cat worked fine on it. I was blown away by that even being possible. The most recent optional-UEFI system I got is Broadwell (no idea what it is, can't remember) and I'd do some stuff with it if I had a decent English speaker to narrate the videos, my Balkanese is barely resembling English and I just lose any motivation to publish a video when I make it. I can't even understand what I'm saying, how can an audience member supposed to cope with my balkan-ish English-like inflictions and pronunciation.
Socket 7 was USB 1 era. use PCI USB 2 card.
use Google translate, text to speech etc.speech synthesis.
accented English can be fun, do a video and ask people.
you would be shocked and amused by how a lot of average Brits talk.
10:18 i have that card! it's a D-Link DFE-130TX Rev A-1, completely unremarkable card
32:21 that might be an AMR connector
The motherboard at 11:50 is not Asus P28 but the legendary Asus P2B ;)
HP in the Pentium III era actually used Cooler master CPU coolers in their beige and frosted black bug-eyed styled desktops.
Phew I hope the SCSI drive works!
I just skimmed through the video quick. Did you end up getting any PCI Ethernet cards?
Anyone else reminded of the Borg when Shelby says PCI Ethernet board or is it just me?
It's a pity none of those main boards have IDE raid, considering all those drives you have
Evergreen made 386 to 486 boards, and 486DX2s 486BL3, and I think a 486BL4 ( IBM Silicon )
If you have a Pentium 233 mhz MMX board and CPU I really want it that was my favorite old school intel cpu it was awesome! I would want to have an old school case to put it in oh my god the 233mhz mmx was the shiz for DOS and windows 98..
So, did you get any PCI ethernet cards, tho?
3d print a hd caddy holder like in the master cartons