Holiday Jackpot
I got a whole bunch of hardware from a friend for free, figured I'd share the rough inventory and some thoughts with you.
- 10 Socket 462 motherboards
- three Slot 1 motherboards
- two AM2 motherboards
- one Socket 478 motherboard
- three Slot 1 cpu's
- 22 sticks of SDRAM
-12 AGP graphics cards
- two PCI graphics cards
- three network adapters
- two sound cards
- one serial port card
- two ok psu's
- one loud psu
- cd-drives
- floppy drives
- four generic cases
- Compaq server with dual socket 8 motherboard, 256 Mb of dram and three special hard drives
+ some additional junk
I harvested fans from several broken psu's, picked a few good enough cd-drives and floppy drives. I put together two Slot 1 -machines and I'll probably pick one or two interesting S462 motherboards and throw the rest away. I'm assuming AM2-boards are broken and throwing them away too. I'm a little bit torn about keeping the S478 board. I'll keep the PCI gpu's and some of the AGP ones and throwing rest of them away as well.
It would of course be nice to sell/give the excess away but this stuff tends to sit so long before a buyer (or anyone at all) appears. I don't have the luxury of time and space to hold to all of this.
These Slot 1 machines are neat, I haven't had anything this old since the '90s or so. Windows 98 runs great, case is quiet and small. Neat break from more modern stuff. One of the cases came with a assembly report from 1998, it lists the hardware in great detail so I can possibly recreate the exact same setup, which is extra neat. Too bad it doesn't list selling price or serial for the os.
I left my proper camera home for the holidays (spending it with family) so I can't provide worthwhile pictures atm, but I'll be posting something next year when I have the original machine assembled down to the smallest possible detail.
- 10 Socket 462 motherboards
- three Slot 1 motherboards
- two AM2 motherboards
- one Socket 478 motherboard
- three Slot 1 cpu's
- 22 sticks of SDRAM
-12 AGP graphics cards
- two PCI graphics cards
- three network adapters
- two sound cards
- one serial port card
- two ok psu's
- one loud psu
- cd-drives
- floppy drives
- four generic cases
- Compaq server with dual socket 8 motherboard, 256 Mb of dram and three special hard drives
+ some additional junk
I harvested fans from several broken psu's, picked a few good enough cd-drives and floppy drives. I put together two Slot 1 -machines and I'll probably pick one or two interesting S462 motherboards and throw the rest away. I'm assuming AM2-boards are broken and throwing them away too. I'm a little bit torn about keeping the S478 board. I'll keep the PCI gpu's and some of the AGP ones and throwing rest of them away as well.
It would of course be nice to sell/give the excess away but this stuff tends to sit so long before a buyer (or anyone at all) appears. I don't have the luxury of time and space to hold to all of this.
These Slot 1 machines are neat, I haven't had anything this old since the '90s or so. Windows 98 runs great, case is quiet and small. Neat break from more modern stuff. One of the cases came with a assembly report from 1998, it lists the hardware in great detail so I can possibly recreate the exact same setup, which is extra neat. Too bad it doesn't list selling price or serial for the os.
I left my proper camera home for the holidays (spending it with family) so I can't provide worthwhile pictures atm, but I'll be posting something next year when I have the original machine assembled down to the smallest possible detail.
Comments
Not really, I live in Germany. Only thing that might is dealing with DHL International.
Three of them does, the Slot 1 motherboards. One of which is a spare.
I'll make a complete inventory this weekend (since it's christmas and everything right now). I doubt you find S462 motherboards really interesting though. There's this MSI MS6117 VER1:1 Slot 1 motherboard and that monstrous Compaq server with Socket 8 motherboard, but if I start taking that server apart I might find myself wanting to keep it.
Getting a bit off topic but we found out last night that old hardware is way more expensive in USA than it is in Finland. In here you can get still useful stuff like 9800GT for around 10 euros, while in the states that turned out to be worth around $40. What's the German market like?
What form factor is the server?
German market? Fairly decent. Some places give away stuff, and others sell it dirt cheap.
Local computer store gave me a sapphire after they did an upgrade job. Even got a 1600x1200 CRT for free, although its geometry is junk.(will post later)
If you really want stuff, there are some in-store e-waste dumps that are happy to unload whatever to you, unless the employee(s) there having a bad day.
Socket 462
Asus A7V133-C
Asus A7NBX-LA
Asus A7VBX-LA
Asus A7VBX-X
MSI K7T Turbo VER: 3
MSI K7T PRO VER: 1
MSI MS-6380E VER: 1.0
Gigabyte GA-72M
Slot 1
MSI MS6117 VER1:1
Graphics cards
Matrox MGA-G100A-E
Matrox MGA-G100A-E
RV280-LE_A062 R1.01
Additional junk refers just to random bits of metal and plastic, some heat sinks and whatnot. Nothing particularly useable. All of this will be heading to recycling on Monday. I'll get back to you on that server.
Would really like the MS6117 and one of the Matroxes. Could probably even stuff the whole thing in a 1u case if I mod the socket.
I won't ship heatsinks as weight counts and more importantly, they would be pain in the ass to pack with the rest of the stuff.
I'm getting a few heatsinks with fans from someone this week, so it's ok.