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Just received full refund for 90 Euros spent on the CPU adapters. I sent this forum and ebay listing as proof of suspicious activity. I also checked photos from the sale. You can see that the print from the other side of the paper is showing through, so if you crank up levels just a bit you can...

Having not received any shipping confirmation (or any word at all, since sale was made) I have filed a claim for refund. This is why it is important to use protected payment methods. I hope everyone's able to get their money back.

So far got 2 chips in the mail a lot sooner than I expected. First one the seller didn't secure it correctly and it ended up banging up all its legs, making SMD replacement on a Gainbery next to impossible. I am more likely to buy form a different source, than to take chances with this one, as...

For about $140 I could get some out of Ukraine with VLB slots in the same spot. I'll first wait for socket adapters to arrive and if that yields nothing, I'll consider swapping the motherboard for something faster. Overdrive that I tested was old stock, factory sealed. I decided to overpay just...

100MHz Overdrive chip did not work. I was hoping it would run under DX2-66 configuration, but it did not boot. I went though all possible CPU jumper settings, and there was no result. CPU was getting warm, as if running. I tried disabling half of my cache. That did nothing. I disabled all CPU...

Thrift Store Find Thrift Store Find What a strange discovery. It's a soundcard manufactured by Trident, with a built-in Yamaha XG wavetable. Had no idea such things even existed.

My main retro build is on Asus P2B-DS motherboard, dual P3-1GHz, 2GB SD-133 RAM, Voodoo 5500 and SB64. I do most of my retro gaming on it. AGP, PCI, ISA, 3 kinds of onboard SCSI, USB, everything. Full driver support for DOS, Linux, Windows, OS2 even. Best board I ever owned. Have a stack of...

For accelerated 3D gaming, of course, a normal videocard is a must, but I have other retro builds for such task. With this one the challenge was to make it as small as humanly possible using retro components (which at the time weren't retro yet). Nowdays I have access to SD hard drive adapters...

This machine I used to take in a briefcase to LAN parties. It's about 18 years old at this point. Needs recapping and perhaps a migration into a metal case. Plastic is pure hell when it comes to thermal management. I lost one mechanical drive on it in the middle of playing Little Big Adventure 2.

With the internet I got a chance to catch up on the 486 generation. In the 90's I went from a 286 straight to P-100, skipping everything inbetween, and Pentiums were indeed, easier in comparison. I don't miss the days when every component purchase was a dice roll and you didn't know if something...

I already bought 2, so no worries.

I already bought 2 from him. That's the whole reason I ended up on this forum. I hope I get to come across original Gainbery some day, or maybe replace regulator on the current one and then a miracle... I don't know. I spotted few solder bridges on the CPU. Thought they were in error. Tried...

I saw ads for Gravis in the past, but never seen actual cards until recently. I tried retro games with it, and although sound is technically superior to Vibra 16 that I had, it does not produce the sound that I remember. So after all the testing, I settled with a crappier card, because of a...

That photo is in the dictionary, under "Envy".

My first 486 from a few years ago. Thanks to parts found on AmiBay I'm going to give that machine an upgrade, to bring it closer to Pentium speed. Have one overdrive and one DX5 133MHz chips in the mail that can potentially run with the motherboard, but won't know until they get here. Want...