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

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

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.

Ide caddy

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 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

I have one of those 9600 GT’s, was a nice upgrade when I bought it. I now have the passive 9800 GT too

Nice board! P2B + 350MHz PII is exactly what I built back in the late 90s, and still have running in my retro fleet today.

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.

I used them to do video capture on drives that weren’t horrifyingly expensive ultra SCSI. I keep a few around for nostalgia.

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.

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.

Hmu I have tons of old pc parts and games from early 90s to the early 2000s

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.

32:21 that might be an AMR connector

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.