Gallery of [old] Personal Computer components
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Mainboards

Commodore PC-1 mainboard
Year of manufacture 1987
Commodore PC-1 Mainboard with 512 kB RAM, additional 4 DIL-sockets for expansion to 640 kB present.
Siemens 8088 CPU, socket for 8087 FPU.
Left upper corner: Motorola MC6845 CRT controller and Paradise Video Chip 2 (PVC2), plantronics mode capable.
Left lower corner: connector for 5 1/4" DD disk drive.
Right lower corner: Paradise chip for parallel port (PPC1) and WD8250 for serial port.
Chipset is typical for Commodore a custom made one.

286 mainboard from a HP-Vectra system
Year of manufacture 1986
80286 CPU with 8 MHz, socket for 80287 FPU
640 kB RAM is plugged seperately to the wide pin connector.

unidentified 286 mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1989
chipset: TACT82301PB, TACT82302PB, TACT82303PB
DIL sockets for RAM, 256 kB RAM plugged with 4 chips
Intel 80286-12 with 12 MHz plugged, free socket for FPU
5x 16 bit ISA< 1x 8 bit ISA slot

386SX-16 mainboard
from a Highscreen 386SX-16 series III PC system
VIA chipset, 4 memory banks with 2 slots each, 6x 16 bit ISA and 2x 8 bit ISA slots
FPU-socket with optional sync./async. clock (see jumper)
Phoenix BIOS with Dallas DS1287 clock+battery IC
Year of manufacture: end of 1990

386A mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1991
Chipset: Chips P82C206, P82C304, P82A306, P82C301, P82C302, P82C303, P82C302
8x SIMM (2 banks), supports 1 MB SIMMs, total 8x 1 MB
supports 16 MHz and 25 MHz CPUs, socketed 386DX-25 IV, IIT 3C87-33 FPU in EMC socket
5x 16 bit ISA, 2x 8 bit ISA slots
no cache on board
early AMI CMOS/XMOS BIOS

386 mainboard MBA-032
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chipset: MX83C306FC, MX83C305FC
While this board has no separate cache, the chipset itself includes 8 kB L2-cache.
Baby-AT form factor
8x SIMM (2 banks), 6x 16 bit ISA, 1x 8 bit ISA
EMC socket for FPU.

386 mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chipset: ETEQ386 "Bobcat", ET82C493, ET82C491
8xSIMM (2 banks)
soldered AMD 386DX40 and spare EMC-socket (Extended Math Coprocessor)
64 kB cache
16 MB cacheable size

386 CACHE-32A mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1990
Chipset: Chips & Technologies
early AMI BIOS with CMOS and XCMOS setup an included chipset-register-editor.
socketed 32 bit Intel cache controller 82385-33, memory banks on separate board
CACHE-32A memory board
4 memory banks,  4 SIMM slots each. Since the chipset supports only 1 MB capacity per SIMM maximum memory capacity is 16 MB.
full length board.

386 mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chipset: SIS
8xSIMM, 6x 16 bit ISA, 2x 8 bit ISA slots, AMI BIOS
64 kB cache, 16 MB cacheable area
plugged CPU ceramics AMD 386DX-40, Cyrix FasMath CX-83D87-40-GP FPU, 8x 4 MB SIMMs

386 American Megatrends Baby Screamer mainboard
A deluxe 386 mainboard with AMI/VLSI chipset. The BIOS is split into two EPROMs (Odd/Even BIOS).
Free sockets are for 80386 CPU and 80387 FPU.
8x SIMM, 8x ISA, 2x serial, 1x parallel, 1x IDE, 1x Floppy, AMI Mark V BIOS.
Characteristics: onboard Multi-I/O-controller, full expandability with 8x 16 Bit ISA slots, easily configureable with DIP switches.
Year of manufacture: 1991.

386 mainboard Peacock P386DX-40 Rev. 1.0
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chipset: Symphony Labs "Haydn" SL82C392, SL82C461, SL82C455
Baby-AT form factor
6x 16 bit ISA slots, 8x SIMM
on board Multi-IO with 2x serial, 1x parallel, 1x IDE, 1x Floppy
128 kB cache
CPU AMD Am386DX-40 soldered, FPU IIT 3C87-40 plugged

486 mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1993
Chipset UMC 82C481 / UMC 82C482
Label: TK-82C480A-4N-D05A Ver 1.01
256 KB L2-cache
8x SIMM, 7x ISA (1x 8 bit)

unidentified 486 mainboard
Year of manufacture: 1993
chipset: SIS 85C461
256 KB L2-cache
8x SIMM, 7x ISA, 2x VLB slot
80486 PGA socket for 5V 486 CPUs, supports Write-Back

486 mainboard model 486-VC-H
Chipset: VIA VT82C495 / VT 82C481 , 8x SIMM , 6x 16Bit ISA

486 mainboard PAT48AV TMC Research Corp.
Year of manufacture: 1994
Label: PAT48AV-1.40
Chipset: Ali M1429
7x 16 bit ISA, 3x VLB, 8x SIMM, 2 banks, 256 kB? cache

486 mainboard PAT48PV TMC Research Corp.
Year of manufacture: 1993
Chipset: OPTI 82C495 SX / 82C392 SX
6x ISA 16 bit, 2 as VLB slot useable, 1x ISA 8 bit
8x SIMM
256 kB L2-cache
Intel OverDrive Socket 2

486 mainboard Gigabyte GA-486IM
Year of manufacture: 1994
Chipset UMC UM8886F / UM8881F
Socket 3
4x 16 bit ISA, 2 as VLB useable
4x PCI
4x PS/2 SIMM max. 128 MB DRAM,
256 kB L2-cache, 64 MB cacheable size

486 mainboard Elitegroup ECS-UM8810PAIO Rev. 2.1
Year of manufacture: 1995
Baby-AT form factor
Chipset UMC UM886F / UM881F
4x 16 bit ISA, 3x PCI slot
4xPS/2 SIMM max. 128 MB DRAM
256 kB L2-cache
Phoenix 486 PCI PnP BIOS 4.04
onboard IDE and FDD using CMD640 PCI IDE controller, socketed Dallas RTC, support for 3.3V CPUs using plugable VRM module

486 mainboard Elitegroup ECS-UM486V-AIO(DIP) Rev. 2.0
Baby-AT form factor
Year of manufacture: 1993
Chipset: UMC UM82C482AF / UM82C481BF / UM82C863F / UM82C865F / UM82C206F
Support for all 5V socket 3 CPUs
6x 16 bit ISA, 2x VLB
4x SIMM slots, 256 kB L2-cache
onboard IDE, Floppy, serial, parallel, game, PS/2, external CMOS battery

486 mainboard ASUS PCI/I-486SP3G
Year of manufacture: 1994
486 mainboard with 4x PS/2 SIMM, 4x ISA, 3x PCI, 1x IDE, Floppy, SCSI onboard, Cache 512KB, Chipset: iS82424ZX, iS82423TX, iS82378ZB (SIO), SCSI Controller NCR53C810 onboard.
* supports most 486 processors including the 3.3V Intel DX4, max. 33 MHz FSB.
* Intel Saturn II chipset
* Three PCI and 3 ISA slots (or two PCI and four ISA), PCI 2.1
* Four 72-pin SIMM sockets for up to 160 MB of FPM DRAM, Parity supported
* On-board PCI SCSI controller based on the NCR 53C810 chip.
* On-board National Semiconductor combo I/O chip:
o Two serial ports (16550 equivalent)
o One bidirectional parallel port with EPP and ECP support
o Floppy controller (supports 2.88M drives)
o IDE controller (unfortunately not EIDE, and not on PCI)
* PS/2 mouse port (needs optional cable)
* Flash BIOS

Gigabyte GA-586IP
Introduced in march 1994, one of the first socket 7 mainboards.
Chipset: Intel 430NX Neptune, SMP supported, FPM DRAM, P75+, 66 MHz  FSB, 512 MB max. / L2 cacheable 512 MB, Parity, PCI 2.0
Async. L2 cache
Southbridge: 82378IB/ZB (SIO) ,
Characteristics: no ATA interface onboard (SIO has no IDE controller integrated), no USB

Gigabyte GA-586AP
Chipset:  Ali M1451 / M1449
Socket 5 board (P54C) with PS/2 SIMM
FSB 50, 60, 66 MHz
max. 192 MB RAM

Socket 7 mainboard FIC PA-2005
Chipset: VIA VT82C585VP, VIA VT82C586
Baby-AT form factor
4x PS/2 SIMM, 4x PCI, 3x ISA, 256 kB pipelined burst L2 cache
USB, separate CMOS battery
This board works also with a single PS/2 SIMM plugged.

Socket 7 mainboard Soyo
Chipset: Intel i430FX66, PIIX
Baby-AT form factor
4x PS/2 SIMM, 4x PCI, 4x ISA (one shared)
256 kB Async. cache, COAST slot, L2 cacheable area max. 64 MB
voltage regulator slot not soldered

Mainboard Shuttle HOT-541
board Rev. 2.5
Chipset: Intel i430FX66, PIIX
Socket 7,  max. P54C 200 MHz (Pentium without MMX)
with (no more available) voltage regulator board also P55C 233 MHz (Pentium MMX) supported
FSB 40,50,60,66 MHz, onboard 2 channel ATA
4x PS/2 SIMM slots, max. 4x 32 MB, 256 kB Pipelined Burst cache, L2 cacheable area max. 64 MB, COAST slot
more details at Shuttle

Mainboard Shuttle HOT-557 Ver. 1.32
Year of manufacture: 1995,
introduced: february 1996
Chipset Intel i430VX, Triton II
Northbridge SB82437VX, Southbridge PIIX3 SB82371SB.
4x PS/2 FPM/EDO or 2x DIMM SDRAM, no Parity / no ECC supported
4x PCI, 3x ISA slots,
COAST slot Async/PBurst L2 (Cache On a Stick)
TagRAM-L2 cacheable size 64MB, max. memory 128 MB.
P75+, FSB 66 MHz, PCI 2.1
SDRAM slots work at 5V , 66 MHz.
Due to linear voltage regulators not compatible with K6 CPUs

Gigabyte GA-586UX
Chipset: Intel i430HX
ATX form factor, AT and ATX power connector
4x PS/2 SIMM, Multiplier max. 3.0
Rev.1A
Year of manufacture: 1996
4x ISA, 4x PCI, 1x shared

Gigabyte GA-586SG
Chipset SIS 5591 / 5595
Super Socket 7 board with PS/2 SIMM and SDRAM.
Multiplier upto 3x 83 MHz or 5,5 x 66 MHz (unofficial also 5,5 x 83 MHz possible)
FSB 60,66,75,83.
Board supports K6-2 CXT.
L2 cacheable size 64MB

PCChips mainboard with TX-Pro chipset
You could suspect that this board uses an Intel i430TX chipset, but
in reality this board has a SIS5591 Chipset.
Year of manufacture 1996, produced by Shuttle?.
4x ISA,4x PCI (1 shared), 4x PS/2, 2x DIMM, IDE/Floppy/Serial/Parallel controller onboard, 512K L2-cache
The SIS5591 chipset was produced as cheap consumer chipset.
A disadvantage of the SIS5591 chipset is the L2-cacheable size is limited to 64 MB.

Socket 7 mainboard mit VXPro+ chipset
identified as: Elpina M537D
You could suspect that this board uses an Intel 430VX chipset, but
on this board an Apollo VPX chipset is present.
Year of manufacture: 1997
FSB 50,55,60,66,75,83 MHz
Multiplier upto 3.0x
Voltages: 2.5 V, 2.8 V, 2.9 V, 3.2 V, 3.5 V (for P54C, P55C)
USB is not soldered.

Socket 7 mainboard MSI 5128 V1.1
Chipset: Intel i430HX
The IDE / serial / parallel connectors are positioned this way that only 4x PS/2 SIMM slots are soldered on this board.
Multiplier upto 3.0x ?, FSB 50/60/66 MHz
Voltages 2.5 V to 3.52 V
4x PCI, 4x ISA (one shared)
256 kB cache with COAST module option
USB

Socket 7 mainboard ASUS P/I-P55T2P4
Rev. 3.10
Chipset: Intel i430HX, PIIX3
Year of manufacture: 1997
4x PS/2 SIMM slots
other specification similar to the Gigabyte GA586HX2 board

Socket 7 mainboard Gigabyte GA-586HX2
Chipset: Intel i430HX, PIIX3
6x PS/2 SIMM slots
Multiplier 1.5x to 5.5x
official max. FSB 66 MHz
Voltages 2.0V to 3.5 V
512 kB L2 cache incl. TAG RAM upgrade supporting 512 MB L2 cacheable size.
USB

Dual Socket 7 mainboard Gigabyte GA-586DX
Chipset: Intel i430HX, PIIX3
4x PS/2 SIMM slots, max. 512 MB
512 kB L2 cache incl. TAG RAM upgrade supporting 512 MB L2 cacheable size.
Adaptec AIC7880P UW-SCSI controller onboard
Adaptec RAID port
some previous owner glued coolers on the chipset.

Socket 7 mainboard Gigabyte GA-586TX3
Chipset: Intel i430TX, PIIX4
Year of manufacture: 1997
max. setting 5.5 x 66 MHz
2x PS/2 SIMM, 3x SDRAM slots
AT + ATX power
4x PCI, 3x ISA (one shared), USB, UDMA/33
Board Rev. 1.09
L2 cacheable size 64 MB only.

Socket 7 mainboard QDI P5I430TX/250E
Chipset: Intel i430TX, PIIX4
Year of manufacture: 1997
4x PS/2 SIMM, 3x SDRAM slots
4x PCI, 3x ISA (one shared), USB, UDMA/33
AT power
L2 cacheable size 64 MB only.

Socket 7 mainboard ASUS TX97-XE Rev. 3.01
Chipset: Intel i430TX, PIIX4
ATX form factor
Year of manufacture: 1997
4x PS/2 SIMM, 2x SDRAM
4x PCI, 4x ISA (one shared), USB, UDMA/33

Super Socket 7 mainboard with AMD640 chipset (by Shuttle?)
Year of manufacture: 1997
FSB: 50,60,66,75,83 MHz
Multiplier: 1.5 to 4.5
Voltages: 2.1 V, 2.8 V, 2.9 V, 3.2 V, 3.3 V, 3.5 V
Jumper to switch between ATX and AT power supply.
1 MB L2 cache
chipsets core is a VIA licensed VP2/97 chipset using VT82C595 and VT82C586B chips.

Super Socket 7 mainboard FIC VA-503+ with VIA MVP3 chipset
Year of manufacture: 1998
FSB: 66, 75, 83, 95, 100, 112, 124 MHz
Voltages: 2.0 V to 3.2 V
Multiplier 2x to 5.5x (5.5x 124 MHz = 682 MHz)
1 MB L2 cache, cacheable size depending on Write Back / Write Through setting.
Power supply by AT or ATX standard possible.

Super Socket 7 mainboard ASUS P5A
Chipset: ALI M1541 / M1543C
Year of manufacture: 1999
Board Rev. 1.04, ATX form factor
FSB 60 to 120 MHz, multiplier max. x5
AGP, 5x PCI, 2x ISA (one shared), USB
3x SDRAM

Super Socket 7 mainboard ASUS P5A-B
Chipset: ALI M1541 / M1543C
Year of manufacture: 1999
Board Rev. 1.04, Baby-AT form factor, AT and ATX power connector
FSB 60 to 120 MHz, multiplier max. x5
AGP, 3x PCI, 2x ISA (one shared), USB
3x SDRAM

Socket 8 mainboard Chaintech 6ITM
Chipset: Intel 440FX, PIIX3
Year of manufacture: 1996
4x PCI, 4x ISA, 6x PS/2 SIMM socket, USB
ATX form factor, AT and ATX power connector

Slot-1 mainboard MSI MS6117
Ver. 1.1.
Slot-1 mainboard, ATX
Chipset: Intel 440LX, PIIX4
AGP 2x, 5x PCI, 2x ISA (one shared)
FSB 66 MHz, 3x SDRAM slot
onboard 2-channel IDE + Floppy, USB

Slot-1 mainboard Intel AL440LX
Chipset: Intel 440LX, PIIX4
AGP 2x, 4x PCI, 2x ISA (one shared)
FSB 66 MHz, 3x SDRAM slot
ISA sound onboard Yamaha YMF715-S OPL (WSS,SB Pro2, MPU-401)

PCChips Slot-1 mainboard i440 EX/LX V1.2A
Chipset: Intel 440LX?, PIIX4E
AGP 2x, 3x PCI, 2x ISA, 4x PS/2 slot, 2x SDRAM slot
Baby-AT form factor, has also ATX power connector
onboard sound: SoundPro HT1869V+ is a relabelled CMI8330.
USB bracket.

Slot-1 mainboard Gigabyte GA-6EA Rev. 1.4
Chipset: Intel 440EX, PIIX4E
Baby-AT form factor, has also ATX power connector
Year of manufacture: 1998
AGP 2x, 3x PCI, 2x ISA (one shared), max. 256 MB SDRAM
FSB 66 MHz, 2x SDRAM slot, SB-Link connector
supports Pentium II 233 MHz - 366 MHz, no L2 cache for Celeron 266 MHz - 300 MHz

MSI MS6156 Pentium II / III mainboard
Pentium II/III mainboard with VIA chipset. 133 MHz FSB support.
Revision: 2.1 BX7
Northbridge: VT82C693A
Southbridge: VT82C596B
1x AGP 2x
3x PCI
1x ISA (shared)
Soundchip: Creative ES1373 (internal likely Ensoniq, corresponds to a Soundblaster PCI 128)

Slot-1 mainboard Gigabyte GA-686BX Rev. 2.0
Chipset: Intel i440BX, PIIX4E
ATX form factor
Year of manufacture: 1998
AGP 2x, 4x PCI, 3x ISA (one shared), 4x SDRAM slot, max. 1 GB SDRAM
supports SB-Link

Slot-1 mainboard Gigabyte GA-6BXU
Revision 1.7
Chipset: Intel 440BX, PIIX4E
supports SDR SDRAM upto 256 MB per DIMM, Pentium II/III FSB100
AGP 2x, 4x PCI, 3x ISA (one shared).
has additional Adaptec 7890 ULTRA-2 SCSI controller

Slot-1 mainboard ASUS P2B
Revision 1.12
Chipset: Intel 440BX, PIIX4E
Year of manufacture: 1999
supports SDR SDRAM upto 256 MB per DIMM, Pentium II/III FSB100
AGP 2x, 4x PCI, 3x ISA.

Slot-1 mainboard ASUS P3B-F
Revision 1.04
Chipset: Intel 440BX, PIIX4E
Year of manufacture: 1999
supports SDR SDRAM upto 256 MB per DIMM, Pentium II/III FSB100
JumperFree BIOS
AGP 2x, 5x PCI, 2x ISA

SlotKet adapter PGA370 to Slot-1
type: 370 CPU CARD
for Coppermin Cleerons and Pentium III

Elitegroup P6VAP-A+
Socket 370 mainboard rev.: 1.1
Chipset: VIA VT82C694X (NB), VT82C596B (SB)
AGP 2x, 4x PCI, ISA Slot not soldered
3 slots for PC100/PC133 SDRAM upto 1.5 GB
onboard soundchip: CMI8738

Slot-A mainboard MSI MS6191
Ver.: 1
Chipset: AMD Irongate AMD750, 200 MHz FSB (DDR)
2x SDRAM slot, 100 MHz
AGP 2x, 3x PCI
sound onboard Creative ES1373 (onboard version of Soundblaster PCI 128)

Gigabyte GA-7IXE
Year of manufacture: 2000
Slot A Athlon mainboard up to 1 GHz with an AMD750 / AMD756 Irongate chipset.
3x DIMM SDRAM max. 768 MB.
FSB 200 MHz
AGP 2x, 5x PCI / 2x ISA
supports UDMA2 transfers on IDE.
known bugs:
enabling AGP Sideband Adressing (SBA) freezes system.
AGP 2x unreliable with some graphics boards due to noise on AGP, seems to depend on specific board/graphics card combination.
Comparison: Gigabyte GA-7IX
with Athlon 650 MHz CPU plugged in Slot-A.
SBA works here
Comparison: Gigabyte GA-7IXE4
This mainboard features a Socket-A instead of Slot-A.

MSI MS-6330 K7T Pro2
Socket A mainboard
chipset: KT133 (VT8363 / VT868A)
FSB200, AGP 4x, 5x PCI, USB 1.1
max. 1.5 GB SDR-SDRAM

ABIT KT7A
Socket A mainboard with VIA KT133A chipset,
Chipset: VIA VT8363A / VIA VT82C686B
support for Athlon Thunderbird / Duron with 200 / 266 MHz FSB
it is also reported that Athlon XP with Palomino core run with latest BIOS
max. 1.5 GB 133 MHz SDRAM in 3 slots
AGP 2x/4x, 6x PCI, 1x ISA (shared), UDMA/100
this chipset suffers the infamous PCI arbitration bug first reported by AuJah Hardware.
Installation of PCI latency patch strongly recommended

ASUS A7V266-E
Socket A mainboard with VIA KT266A chipset,
3x DDR-SDRAM
max. 266 MHz FSB

Elitegroup K7AMA
Socket A mainboard with Ali M1535 chipset.
A rather strange board with SDR- and DDR-SDRAM support.
The last PCI slot is not functional* and the onboard LAN-chip requires an additional card (with the PHY), that has the RJ-45 connector.
* power is ok, but cards don't get detected correctly.

Elitegroup K7S0M
Socket A mainboard with SIS 961 chipset, supports SDR- and DDR-SDRAM

MSI MS-6716
Socket A mainboard
chipset: KT400 / VT8235
FSB266, AGP 4x, 3x PCI, USB 1.1, IEEE1394, Realtek ALC650, VIA LAN 100 Mbit/s, Parallel, Serial
This board is an OEM production for the brand Medion.

iBASE MB800
Socket 478 mainboard (Pentium 4)
chipset: i845G
533 MHz FSB, USB 2.0, AGP 4x, 3x PCI, 1x micro PCI, 3x ISA
integrated graphics of the i845G chipset, ICH4 integrated LAN 100 MBit/s
max. 2 GB PC266 DDR SDRAM

MSI MS-6513 (Medion 3500)
Socket 478 mainboard (Pentium 4)
chipset: i845D
AGP 4x, 3x PCI, 2x P-ATA, Floppy, no SATA, CMI8738 6ch Audio, RTL8100 100 MBit/s LAN, Parallel, Serial
2x DDR-SDRAM PC266, max. 1 GB

FSC W26361-W95-X-02
Socket 775 mainboard, supports Pentium 4
chipset: SIS661FX, SIS964
FSB800, AGP 8x, 3x PCI, P-ATA, Floppy, 2x SATA, USB 2.0, integrated Audio and LAN, Parallel, Serial
2x DDR-SDRAM DDR400


CPUs

Siemens 8088-P
Year of manufacture: 1987
Core Frequency: 4.77 MHz
Board Frequency: 4.77 MHz
Manufactured: week 12/1987
Package Type: Plastic
DIP-40
Introduced: 06/1979
Address bus: 20 Bit
Ext. data bus: 8 Bit
Transistors: 29,000
Circuit Size: 3.00 µ
Voltage: 5 V

Intel 80386DX-16
Year of manufacture: 1987

Core Frequency: 16 MHz
Board Frequency: 16 MHz
Manufactured: 1987
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-132
Introduced: October 17, 1985
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
Transistors: 275,000
Circuit Size: 1.50 µ
Voltage: 5 V
CPU Code: i386 DX


Intel 80387-16
Year of manufacture 1987

Core Frequency: 16 MHz
Board Frequency: 16 MHz
Manufactured: week 51/1987
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-68
Introduced: 1986
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
L1 Cache: 8 KB
CPU Code: i387 DX
Intel S-Spec: SX029

AMD 80386DX/DXL-25
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Year of manufacture: 1991

Core Frequency: 25 MHz
Board Frequency: 25 MHz
Manufactured: week 33/1991
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-132
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
Transistors: 275,000
Circuit Size: 1.50 µ
Voltage: 5 V

AMD 80386DX/DXL-33
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Year of manufacture: 1991

Core Frequency: 33 MHz
Board Frequency: 33 MHz
Manufactured: week 22/1991
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-132
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
Transistors: 275,000
Circuit Size: 1.50 µ
Voltage: 5 V

ULSI US83C87 Math Co
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Year of manufacture: 1991
80387 compatible floating point unit
Core Frequency: 33 MHz
Board Frequency: 33 MHz
Manufactured: week 29/1991
Made in: Philippines
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-68
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit

Intel 486SX-25

Core Frequency: 25 MHz
Board Frequency: 25 MHz
Data bus (ext.): 32 Bit
Address bus: 32 Bit
Transistors: 1,185,000
Circuit Size: 1.00 µ
Voltage: 5 V
Introduced: 04/1991
Manufactured: week 21/1993
Made in: Malaysia
L1 Cache: 8 KB
CPU Code: i486 SX
P23
Intel S-Spec: SX679
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-168
Socket: 1/2/3


Cyrix 486DX-40GP
Year of manufacture:  1994
Core Frequency: 40 MHz
Board Frequency: 40 MHz
Manufactured: week 13/1994
Made in: Japan
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-168
Introduced: 09/1993
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
Voltage: 5 V
L1 Cache: 8 KB
CPU Code: Cx486 DX
M6
Socket: 2/3

Intel 486DX-33
Year of manufacture: 1992

Core Frequency: 33 MHz
Board Frequency: 33 MHz
Data bus (ext.): 32 Bit
Address bus: 32 Bit
Transistors: 1,185,000
Circuit Size: 1.00 µ
Voltage: 5 V
Introduced: May 7, 1990
Manufactured: week 44/1992
L1 Cache: 8 KB
CPU Code: i486 DX
P4
Intel S-Spec: SX419
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-168
Socket: 1/2/3

AMD 486SX2-66
Year of manufacture: 1994
no FPU included
This is a cheap 486 CPU for desktop applications that do not use the FPU.
It was used in the Compaq Presario CDS520.

Intel 486DX4-100
Year of manufacture: 1994
Core Frequency: 100 MHz
Board Frequency: 33 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 3.0
Manufactured: week 19/1994
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-168
Introduced: March 7, 1994
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
Transistors: 1,600,000
Circuit Size: 0.60 µ
Voltage: 3 V
L1 Cache: 8 KB
CPU Code: i486 DX4
P24C
Intel S-Spec: SX900
Socket: 1/2/3
note the small detail that this CPU runs actually at 3x 33 MHz, but a 486DX3-99 wouldn't break the magical 100 in marketing.

AMD 5x86-P75
Year of manufacture: 1996
Core Frequency: 133 MHz
Board Frequency: 33 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 4.0
Manufactured: week 47/1996
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-168
Introduced: 09/1995
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 32 Bit
Circuit Size: 0.35 µ
Voltage: 3.45 V
L1 Cache: 16 KB
Socket: 1/2/3

Cyrix 6x86L-PR166
Year of manufacture: 1997

Core Frequency: 133 MHz
Board Frequency: 66 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 2.0
Manufactured: week 07/1997
Made in: USA
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-296
Goldcap
Introduced: 02/1996
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 3,000,000
Circuit Size: 0.35 µ
Core / I/O Voltage: 2.8 / 3.3 V
L1 Cache: 16 KB
CPU Code: 6x68
M1
Socket: 7

AMD K6 166ALR
Year of manufacture: 1997

Core Frequency: 166 MHz
Board Frequency: 66 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 2.5
Manufactured: week 26/1997
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-321
Heat Spreader
Introduced: April 2, 1997
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 8,800,000
Circuit Size: 0.35 µ
Core / I/O Voltage: 2.9 / 3.3 V
L1 Cache: 32+32 KB
CPU Code: K6 (Model 6)
Socket: 7

Cyrix 6x86MX-PR200
Year of manufacture: 1997

Core Frequency: 166 MHz
Board Frequency: 66 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 2.5
Manufactured: week 41/1997
Made in: USA
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-296
Goldcap
Introduced: May 30, 1997
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 6,500,000
Circuit Size: 0.35 µ
Core / I/O Voltage: 2.9 / 3.3 V
L1 Cache: 64 KB
CPU Code: M2
Socket: 7


AMD K6 300AFR
Year of manufacture: 1998
Core Frequency: 300 MHz
Board Frequency: 100 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 4.0
Manufactured: week 34/1998
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-321
Heat Spreader
Introduced: April 7, 1998
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 8,800,000
Circuit Size: 0.25 µ
Core / I/O Voltage: 2.2 / 3.45 V
L1 Cache: 32+32 KB
CPU Code: K6 (Little Foot - Model 7)
Socket: 7

AMD K6-2 300AFR
Core Frequency: 300 MHz
Board Frequency: 100 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 3.0
Manufactured: week 34/1998
Made in: Malaysia
Package Type: Ceramic
PGA-321
Heat Spreader
Introduced: 05/1998
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 9,300,000
Circuit Size: 0.25 µ
Core / I/O Voltage: 2.2 / 3.3 V
L1 Cache: 32+32 KB
CPU Code: Chompers
Socket: 7

Athlon 500 MHz
Year of manufacture: 1999
Core Frequency: 500 MHz
Board Frequency: 100 MHz (x2)
Clock Multiplier: 5.0
Manufactured: week 41/1999
Made in: USA
Package Type: SECC-242
Introduced: 08/1999
Address bus: 32 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 22,000,000
Circuit Size: 0.25 µ
Core / I/O Voltage: 1.6 / 3.3 V
L1 Cache: 64+64 KB
L2 Cache: 512 KB
CPU Code: K7 Argon
Socket: Slot A
interesting detail: After opening the package on the chips die 'K7650' was written. This means it supports 650 MHz. Only the multiplier seems to be set to 5x by AMD.

P3 Celeron Mobile 550 MHz
Year of manufacture: 2000

Core Frequency: 550 MHz
Board Frequency: 100 MHz
Clock Multiplier: 5.5
Manufactured: 2000
Package Type: Plastic
Micro-PGA2-495
Introduced: June 19, 2000
Address bus: 36 Bit
Ext. data bus: 64 Bit
Transistors: 28,100,000
Circuit Size: 0.18 µ
Voltage: 1.6 V
L1 Cache: 16+16 KB
L2 Cache: 128 KB
CPU Code: 7025A537 SL3ZF KP 550/128
Intel S-Spec: SL4AP


Graphics cards

Video Seven VEGA VGA
Year of manufacture: 1988
Chipset CL-GD520A , CL-GD510A, 8 bit ISA,
256 kB DRAM, 50 MHz DAC
with VGA and EGA connector

Video Seven VGA
Year of manufacture: 1988
Chipset: CL-GD420, CL-GD410, 8 bit ISA
256 kB DRAM 120 ns, 40 MHz Inmos DAC

Headland Video 1024i
Year of manufacture: 1990
Chipset: Headland HT208, 50 MHz DAC
512 KB RAM, cards maximum SVGA mode is 1024x768 interlaced at 43 Hz, sticking to the 8514/A standard.
Video Seven drivers work for this card since it is identical to the Video Seven VGA 1024i.
A nice gimmick is the animated BIOS message.
Another Headland HT208 card, from HP / back
BIOS 7.04, no animated BIOS message, 50 MHz DAC

VGA card with Chips F82C451
Year of manufacture: 1989
Chip: Chips F82C451 B
256 kB RAM, 100ns
EGA and VGA connector
(low quality image)

Creative VideoBlaster CT6000
Creative CT6000 ISA frame grabber card.
Chipset: Chips F82C9001
1 MB RAM? is mapped to the ISA-DMA area below 16 MB in memory. Thus using this card with more than 15 MB RAM is not possible.
The VGA-signal is routed through via a loopback cable (similar to a 3Dfx-Voodoo) and the image is overlayed by color keying.
The VESA feature connector has to be connected to the same card.
Year of manufacture: 1993
See also my brief introduction video for this card on Youtube.

Creative VideoBlaster FS200 CT6050
Successor of the CT6000.
ISA frame grabber card.
Year of manufacture: 1994
Couldn't test I/O with this card due to missing cable (CT6000 cable seems to be incompatible).

Octek EVGA-16
Chips F82C451 C
Year of manufacture: 1991
256 kB RAM 100ns ?

Oaktech OTI037C
Chip: OTI037C
Year of manufacture: 1991
VGA/EGA, 256 kB DRAM 80ns
Another Oaktech OTI037C by Suntra / back
Year of manufacture: 1990

Oaktech OTI 067
Year of manufacture: 1991
Chip: OTI 067
SVGA, 512 kB DRAM, 70ns

Oaktech OTI 087
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chip: OTI 087
SVGA, 1 MB 70ns, BitBLT
max. 2 MB

Oaktech Spitfire Venus Solitaire
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: OTI64111
2 MB RAM, 64 Bit
max. 4 MB

Acumos AVGA2
Year of manufacture:  1992
512 kB DRAM, 70 ns

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420-75QC-B / back
Year of manucfacture: 1993
1 MB DRAM 60ns
FCC-ID: 17TGD5422DM2
VGA-3M

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420-75QC-C
Year of manufacture: 1994
1 MB DRAM 80ns
15 Bit DAC

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5422-80QC-BH
Year of manufacture: 1993
15/16/32 Bit DAC
32 Bit Memory Interface
Hardware BitBlt
AVGA3-22-1M
1 MB DRAM 70ns
FCC-ID: 17TGD5422DM2
another Cirrus Logic CL-GD5422-80QC-C
Year of manufacture: 1993
1 MB DRAM 70ns
FCC-ID: J6QGD5422DM2

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5424-80QC-C
Year of manufacture: 1993
features as GD5422, Vesa Local Bus
FCC-ID: KPM2000V1VL

SPEA V7-VEGA / back
Year of manufacture: 1993
Chipset: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5424, Vesa Local Bus
1 MB DRAM 70ns
P/N: EMA004000700

STB Horizon+
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430
1 MB DRAM, sockets for another 1 MB
64 bit DRAM, 32bit BitBLT, 8/16 Bit acceleration
another STB Horizon+
Year of manufacture: 1994
no sockets
another STB Horizon+
Year of manufacture: 1994
no sockets

VillageTronic Computer SPCIP with memory expansion Picasso / assembled
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chipset: CL-GD5436
2 + 2 MB DRAM

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5440
Year of manufacture: 1996
PCI, Alpine Series
5430 with video support 'SoftMPEG' and integrated DAC CL-PX2070/2085

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446
Year of manufacture: 1996
PCI, 2 MB EDO, 64 Bit, Alpine Series
"Visualmedia"

Cirrus Logic CL-GD5465
Year of manufacture: 1997
brand: MSI MS4415
Chipset: CL-GD5465 Laguna 3D
230 MHz RAMDAC
4 MB Single Channel Rambus

Trident TVGA8816CS_D
Year of manufacture: 1990
Chip: TVGA 8800CS
512 KB RAM
64KB banks + old/new mode support
VGA and EGA connector
another Trident TVGA 8800CS / back
Year of manufacture: 1989
brand: Chicony, FCC-ID: HNG2YPTVGA16X15AO

Trident TVGA 8900B / back
Year of manufacture: 1990
brand: OCTEK
256 kB DRAM 80ns, 66 MHz DAC

Trident TVGA 8900C
Year of manufacture: 1992
512 kB, max. 1 MB RAM, 80 MHz DAC
VESA 1.2
another Trident TVGA 8900C
Year of manufacture: 1992
1 MB DRAM, 66 MHz DAC
VESA 1.2

Trident TVGA 8900CL-C / back
Year of manufacture: 1993
512 kB DRAM, 66 MHz DAC

Trident TVGA 8900D / back
Year of manufacture: 1994
512 kB DRAM 70 ns, SVGA, TDK8001D DAC

Trident TVGA 9000A
Year of manufacture: 1991
512 kB DRAM 80 ns
256 Color DAC, 66 MHz

Trident TVGA 9000B
Year of manufacture: 1992
512 kB DRAM 70 ns
VESA 1.2

Trident TVGA 9000C / back
Year of manufacture: 1993
512 kB DRAM 70 ns

Trident TVGA 9000i
Year of manufacture: 1996
1 MB RAM, 70 ns
onchip 15 / 16 Bit DAC and Quarz

Trident TGUI 9400CXi
Year of manufacture: 1994
Vesa Local Bus
1 MB DRAM
max 2MB, truecolor, onchip 24bit DAC + clock gen

Trident TGUI 9420DGi
Year of manufacture: 1994
Vesa Local Bus
1 MB DRAM
max. 2MB, truecolor, onchip 24bit DAC + clock gen, with 2D acceleration [BitBLT, ...]

STB Sprint/32 VLB
Chip: Trident TGUI 9440AGi
2 MB DRAM
Year of manufacture: 1994
9420 with 16 Bit DAC interface + programmable clock, hardware cursor

Trident TGUI 9440
Year of manufacture: 1995
PCI

Trident TGUI 9680
Year of manufacture: 1996
PCI, 1 MB DRAM
64 Bit, 1 to 4 MB, 9660 w/ video acceleration

Trident 3DImage9750
Year of manufacture: 1997
AGP, TV-Out, 4 MB SGRAM
early 3D acceleration features, latest driver supports DirectX6
Trident 3DImage9750 Boot Logo

Trident Blade3D
Chipset: Trident 9880
Year of manufacture: 1999
8 MB SDRAM at 105 MHz
Video running some benchmarks on Trident Blade3D

WDC Paradise PVGA1A
Year of manufacture: 1990 - one of the early SVGA boards.
256 kB RAM 80 ns, 50 MHz RAM DAC
spare solder spots for additional 256 kB, VGA 16, max. 640x480x256, 800x600x16.
FCC-ID: DBM5UEVGAPROF

another WDC Paradise PVGA1A
Year of manufacture: 1989
256kB 100 ns, spare solderspots, 40 MHz RAM DAC
FCC-ID: DBM5UEVGAPROF

WDC Paradise PVGA1B
Year of manufacture: 1990
Chip: WD90C00-JK, 50 MHz RAM DAC
512 kB RAM 100 ns, identical Layout as the PVGA1A, max. 800x600x256, 1024x768x16
FCC-ID: DBM603316

WDC Paradise PVGA1C?
Year of manufacture: 1991
Chip: WD90C11-LR
RAM 512KB, supports 1024x768x16, 800x600x256 modes

WDC Paradise PVGA1D
Year of manufacture: 1991
Chip: WD90C30-LR
RAM: 1 MB, modes to 1024x768x256, 66? MHz RAM DAC

WDC 90C31-LR
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chip: WD90C31-LR, 80 MHz RAM DAC
1 MB DRAM 70ns, modes to 1024x768x256, 1280x1024x16, BitBLT support
FCC-ID: DBM603527

TSENG ET3000AX
Year of manufacture: 1990
50 MHz RAM DAC
TSENG ET3000AX / back
Year of manufacture: 1989
512 kB DRAM  100ns, 50 MHz DAC
FCC-ID: H3Z3071

TSENG ET4000 AX
16 Bit ISA, 1 MB DRAM, VGA
256 color DAC in DIL package
Auszug von http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tseng_Labs_ET4000 :
At introduction (1991), the original ET4000 was notable for its outstanding host-interface (ISA) throughput. Twice as fast as VGA-chips from Trident Microsystems and Oak Technologies, the ET4000's only superior was a VRAM-based board from Video 7 along with ATI's VGAWonder+. Hardware graphics acceleration had not yet become mainstream, and so host-throughput was the dominating factor in a graphical-application's redraw speed. Equipped with an ET4000, a raw Windows PC would scroll text-windows noticeably faster and more smoothly. (According to Richard Ferraro's book Programmer's Guide to EGA, VGA, the original ET4000 devoted as much as 30% of its silicon die area to a large host-interface FIFO.)

TSENG ET4000AX
Year of manufacture: 1992
256 color MUSIC DAC in DIL package with 80 MHz

TSENG ET4000AX
Year of manufacture: 1990
256 color MUSIC DAC in DIL package

TSENG ET4000AX
Year of manufacture: 1992
1 MB DRAM 80 ns, 66 MHz DAC

TSENG ET4000AX
Year of manufacture: 1992
1 MB DRAM 70 ns, 80 MHz DAC
FCC-ID: ILLTS4HV

TSENG ET4000AX / back
Year of manufacture: 1992
1 MB DRAM, 80 MHz DAC
FCC-ID: ICUVGA-GW140

TSENG ET4000W32i
Year of manufacture: 1996
ICS TruColor DAC, 135 MHz

TSENG ET4000 W32i / VLB
The Vesa Local Bus version of the ET4000 with Windows GDI acceleration, the fastest TSENG ET4000 version, 80 MHz RAM DAC.

TSENG ET4000/W32p PCI / back
Year of manufacture: 1995
ICS TruColor DAC, 1 MB DRAM 45ns
brand: CardExpert

Hercules Dynamite 128/Video
Year of manufacture: 1996
2.25 MB MDRAM 
Chipset: ET6000 with internal 128 Bit data paths, 64 Bit memory bus
135 MHz RAM DAC
another TSENG ET6000 with 4.5 MB MDRAM
brand: Vision Magic
Year of manufacture: 1997

Genoa EGA Karte
Year of manufacture: 1987, 8 Bit ISA, 256 KB RAM
( von http://www.inf.hs-zigr.de/~boehm/rt991/huettig_scholz/grafikindex.html )
Sie wurde ursprünglich von IBM eingeführt, wurde aber durch andere Hersteller noch verbessert. Im Gegensatz zur CGA erlaubte die EGA 25 Zeilen mit je 80 Zeichen. Die maximale Auflösung lag bei 640x350 Bildpunkten. Sie konnte nun 16 Farben aus einer Palette von 64 möglichen Farbtönen gleichzeitig darstellen. Die hohe Auflösung ermöglichte eine deutlich erkennbare Schrift und durch die farbige Darstellung konnte man Schriftattribute wie Kursiv oder Fett hervorheben. Da der Speicherbedarf ebenfalls gestiegen ist (649 x 350 x 4 Bit =109 Kbyte ), wurde auf dieser Karte erstmals ein eigener RAM-Speicher mit 256Kbyte integriert. Eine Auflösung bis 800x600 war möglich aber sehr teuer.

MDA-Grafikkarte
MDA ( Monochrom Display Adapter )
only textmode capable 80x25 with 9x12 charactermatrix.
Normal and bright characters possible.
Typically combined with a green or amber monochrome monitor.
Chip: Motorola 6845 CRTC

Intergraphics IGA1680
formerly known as IGS Systems, now TVIA (16.04.2007)
1 MB DRAM
Year of manufacture: 1995

Matrox Framegrabber IP8-AT/2MC
Year of manufacture: 1993
Chipset: MATROX VIC/O / VSDP/O
The card generates an own VGA signal at the VGA connector. It reads the framebuffer of the primary VGA card using the VESA feature connector which works for certain modes.
The Impression 8 brings it's own BIOS. The upper connector is a SubD/9 input for video signals from f.e. a camera.

Matrox Impression Lite
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chipset: IS-ATHENA R2 / CL-2085 DAC at 135? MHz
2 MB DRAM

Matrox Mystique
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: IS-MGA-1064SG-D
Codename: Hurricane Revision 02
4 MB SGRAM, 12 ns, 64 bit bus
170 MHz RAMDAC
basic 3D features:
- hardware accelerated Gourad Shading
- transparent surfaces
- double and Z-buffering
according to Plasma Designs a lite version of the 2D part of the Millenium I 2064W (except 3D features).
detail information

Matrox Mystique with Rainbow Runner Studio digital video upgrade
card with 4 MB SGRAM
Rainbow Runner Studio features:
- full hardware accelerated Mpeg1 decoder,
- hardware Mjpeg encoder for video capturing
- TV-Out for Win / DOS

Matrox Mystique Box / back / side / other side / manual and CDs

Rainbow Runner Studio Box / back / side / other side / manual and CD

Matrox Mystique 220
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chip: IS-MGA-1164SG-A
Codename: Cyclone Revision 03
4 MB SGRAM, 8 ns, 64 bit bus
220 MHz RAMDAC
according to Plasma Designs a lite version of the 2D part of the Millenium II 2164W (except 3D features)
detail information

Compaq Matrox Mystique 220 with memory expansion
2 MB SGRAM, 10 ns onboard and 2 MB on expansion
This card has a proprietary memory expansion connector in comparison to the normal Mystique cards

Matrox Millenium I
Year of manufacture: 1996
2 MB WRAM
Chip: IS-MGA2064W, 64 bit bus, 220 MHz Ti RAM DAC
Revision 1
detail information
Matrox Millenium I with memory expansion
to 4 MB WRAM
Revision 2

Matrox Millenium I with Media XL Mpeg video accelerator
card with 4 MB WRAM
back side / plugged / close up
Media XL Mpeg uses the Philips 7110 for two composite and S-Video Inputs
The IBM ViP905 video coprocessor accelerates scaling, dithering, cropping and color space conversion - this is an early implementation of video overlay
Full Mpeg1 video and audio decoding in hardware (also CD-I, Video CD v.2)
Frame capture
works in Windows 3.11 / Win95
Matrox Millenium Box / back / side / manual and CDs

Matrox Media XL Mpeg Box / back / manual and disks

Matrox Millenium II / back
Year of manufacture: 1998
4 MB WRAM, 220 MHz DAC

-> All matrox cards with the Millenium 2D core have a hardware scrolling bug that shows as stuttering in DOS games that make use of this, like Commander Keen.
     Early Matrox BIOSes have a buggy VESA extension implementation where certain modes stay black or are not available at all.


Matrox MGA-G100A
Year of manufacture: 1998
4 MB SDRAM, AGP, 230 MHz RAM DAC
Matrox MGA-G100A
Year of manufacture: 1999
4 MB SGRAM, AGP, 230 MHz RAM DAC
Matrox MGA-G100A
Productiva
Year of manufacture 1998
8 MB SDRAM, AGP, 230 MHz RAM DAC

Matrox G200 SD PCI
Year of manufacture: 1999, PCI
8 MB SDRAM
250 MHz RAMDAC
detail information

Matrox G200 SD AGP
Year of manufacture: 1999
8 MB SDRAM

Matrox G200 SGRAM AGP
Year of manufacture: 1999, AGP, 4 MB SGRAM

Matrox Marvel G200-TV with DVD-Module
Year of manufacture: 1998
Core 84 MHz, Mem 8 MB SDRAM at 112 MHz
Cable and Breakout Box with Video In/Out, Audio connectors (not in picture)
DVD-Module chipset: ZORAN ZR36700PQC Vaddis
video of DVD playback quality

Hercules Stingray/64 Video
Chipset: ARK Logic ARK2000MT
ARK = Advanced Rendering Kernel
Year of manufacture: 1996
1 MB EDO, upgradeable to 2 MB
this chipset seems to have a bug where VSync does not work in VESA modes.
208pin, 64bit, max. 2MB, DRAM, 16 bit RAMDAC 110-120MHz, video support

Hercules Stingray Pro
Chipset: ARK Logic ARK1000PV
ARK = Advanced Rendering Kernel
Year of manufacture: 1996
1 MB EDO, max. 2 MB
this chipset seems to have a bug where VSync does not work in VESA modes.
160pin, VLB/PCI, 32 bit, DRAM, RAMDAC 110-135MHz
another Hercules Stingray Pro / back
Year of manufacture: 1995
60 ns DRAM

STB PowerGraph/32
Chipset: S3 Trio32 / 86C732-P
1 MB DRAM 60 ns
S3 Trio integrates Core and DAC in a single chip.
inexpensive version of the Trio64 with 32 bit memory bus only.

SPEA V7-Mirage P-64
Chipset: 86C864 = S3 Vision 864
DAC: AT&T PrecisionDAC ATT21C498-13 with 135 MHz
There was also an ISA version of this card under the name Mirage.
Year of manufacture: 1994
60ns DRAM
another SPEA V7-Mirage P-64
Chipset: 86C864 = S3 Vision 864
DAC: AT&T DAC ATT20C498-13 with 135 MHz
Year of manufacture: 1994
70ns DRAM

SPEA V7-Mirage P-64
Year of manufacture: 1995
2 MB DRAM, 70ns
Chip: 86C764-P (Trio64), integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
S3 Trio integrates Core and DAC in a single chip.

SPEA V7-Mirage P-64 / back
Year of manufacture: 1995
2 MB DRAM, 70 ns
Chip: 86C764X (Trio64), integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC

Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM bzw. Stealth 64 Graphics 2000
Year of manufacture: 1996
2 MB DRAM, 60ns
Chip: 86C764X - Trio64 PnP, integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC

Spea V7 Mirage VL
VLB, 70 ns DRAM
ICS5300-2 RAM DAC with 135 MHz, 8 Bit

miroCrystal 20SV PCI
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: 86C964-P (S3 Vision964)
Rev. 02 or Rev. 03
2 MB VRAM, 70ns
ATT20C505-13 RAM DAC with 135 MHz

Diamond Stealth 64 Video
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: 86C968-P (S3-Vision 968)
968 is a Vision964 with video overlay support.
2 MB VRAM, 70ns
IBM Palette DAC 526 (170/220 MHz, 24 Bit)
with memory upgrade board to 4 MB VRAM

ELSA Winner 1000-ISA
Year of manufacture: 1993
chipset: S3 86C805i-P / STG1700J-13Z 135 MHz DAC
2 MB DRAM 70 ns
supports VESA 1.2 / VBE PM 1.0

ELSA Winner 1000AVI-PCI-2 / back
Year of manufacture: 1995
chipset: S3 Vision 86C868-P
2 MB DRAM, 70ns
135 MHz AT&T DAC
FCC-ID: KJGW1000AVIPCI

ELSA Winner 2000 Pro/X
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: 86C968-P (S3-Vision 968)
2 MB VRAM, 60 ns
Ti RAM DAC, 220 MHz
Video acceleration functions (Overlay)

ELSA Winner 2000 Pro PCI 8 / back
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: 86C968-P (S3-Vision 968)
8 MB VRAM, 60 ns
IBM Palette DAC 37RGB528CF25, 250 MHz, 24bit, 128bit pixel bus, dual clock gen.
Video acceleration functions (Overlay)

ELSA Winner 1000 Trio/V
Year of manufacture: 1997
Chip: S3 Trio 64V+ 86C765, integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
2 MB DRAM, 60ns
Support for DirectDraw API,
Video Acceleration support: Overlay, YUV to RGB colorspace conversion, horizontal linear interpolation for scaling

S3 Trio64V+
brand: New Media Communication
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: 86C765, integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
2 MB DRAM, 60ns
Support for DirectDraw API,
Video Acceleration support: Overlay, YUV to RGB colorspace conversion, horizontal linear interpolation for scaling

S3 Trio64V+
brand: unknown
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: 86C765, integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
2 MB DRAM, 70ns
Support for DirectDraw API,
Video Acceleration support: Overlay, YUV to RGB colorspace conversion, horizontal linear interpolation for scaling

S3 Trio64V2/DX
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chip: 86C775
2 MB EDO? DRAM 50ns
170 MHz RAMDAC, upto 1280x1024@85 Hz and 1600x1200@60 Hz
Support for DirectDraw API,  DDC, VESA DPMS, Indeo Cinepak
Video Acceleration support: Overlay, YUV to RGB colorspace conversion, bilinear interpolation for scaling

S3 ViRGE
Year of manufacture: 1996
S3 ViRGE - (ViRGE = Virtual Reality Graphics Engine) one of the first cards for PC with 3D acceleration features in hardware. Still, it was often slower than rendering scenes by software rendering with the CPU.
So it was nicknamed "3D decelerator". S3 introduced their own graphics API for 3D acceleration called S3D with a few games supporting it (Tomb Raider, Descent II, Terminal Velocity, Mech Warrior 2, ...)
The S3 ViRGE series incorporates the same 2D graphics core as the S3 Trio64V2.
Chip: S3 86C325 50 MHz Core (pin compatible to S3 Trio64V+), integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
PCI bus, 4 MB EDO-DRAM 45ns
2D GUI acceleration upto 1280x1024 256 colors @ 75 Hz
another S3 ViRGE
with 40ns DRAM

S3 ViRGE/DX
Hercules Terminator 3D/DX
Year of manufacture: 1997
Chip: 86C375 (66 MHz core), integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
PCI bus, 4 MB EDO DRAM, 35ns
another S3 ViRGE/DX / back
Year of manufacture: 1997
PCI bus, 4 MB EDO DRAM, 50ns

S3 ViRGE/GX / back
brand: Venus Virge GX
Chipset: S3 86C385 (66 MHz core), integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
Year of manufacture: 1999
PCI bus, 4 MB SGRAM incl. memory expansion

S3 ViRGE/GX2
brand: ExpertColor DSV5357
Chipset: S3 86C357 (66 MHz core), integrated 135 MHz RAM DAC
Year of manufacture: 1998
AGP 2x, 4 MB SGRAM

S3 ViRGE/VX / back
brand: miro Crystal VR4000
chipset: S3 86C98 (66 MHz core), integrated 220 MHz RAM DAC
Year of manufacture: 1996
PCI bus, 4 MB VRAM, 60 ns
TV-Out

S3 Trio 3D/2X
Year of manufacture: 1999
Chip: 86C362 (110 MHz Core)
AGP 2x, 8 MB SGRAM (100 MHz)
Video Interface Port (VIP)
last and fastest version of the S3 Virge series.
new: faster in 2D through 128 bit engine, supports texturing from system memory, multiplicative alpha blending, reflection maps.
Doesn't overclock beyond 105 MHz memory clock. This card is very suited for watching old DOS demos as it has a broad range of supported VESA modes with support for low res modes and 15,16,24 and 32 bit color depth.
I did some demonstration video.

Spectrah Savage MX LD-S370 / back
Year of manufacture: 2000
Brand: Spectrah Dynamics Inc.
Chipset: S3 86C290, Savage MX, VEN 5333 / DEV 8C10
Core 100 MHz, 4 MB SGRAM at 100 MHz 64 bit, AGP 2x
As this chipset is primarily targeted for mobile solutions it has a LVD and CRT connector and supports multi monitor operation.
Using the VGA Sub-D output on the AGP card is like operating a external CRT only on a laptop.

Creative 3D Blaster Savage4 CT6850
Chipset: S3 Savage4 Pro Rev2, 86C397
VEN 5333 / DEV 8A22 / SubSys 1102 / SubVen 101E / Rev 2
PCI, 32 MB SDRAM at 64 bit
Powerstrip reports: Core 110 MHz, Mem 125 MHz
BlasterControl reports: Savage4 Pro, adjustable clock rates for Mem 110-143 Mhz, Core 110-125 MHz
new: single-pass multitexturing

Imagraph IPX Rev B / back
Chipset: Hitachi HD63484P8 / Bt458 RAMDAC 135 MHz ?
1.5? MB DRAM at 80 ns
Year of manufacture: 1991
This card does not comply with the VGA standard and requires special application support.

Cornerstone ImageAccel PC161i
Year of manufacture: 1992
Professional card that supports VGA and a second fixed frequency monitor.
VGA part consists of a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5401 with 256 kB (identical to Acumos AVGA1).
The Cornerstone ImageAccel chip supports output of 1600x1200 at 76 Hz (2 color).
256 kB RAM? 220 MHz BT DAC?
driver and config tool detects card, however I don't have a cable for the second output.

Number Nine #9 GXiTC / back
Year of manufacture: 1992
serial: 65581
Chipset: TMS34020 40 MHz (TIGA), Ti DAC with 135 MHz, Acumos2 (VGA)
This card is split into a VGA part with Acumos2 chipset / 512 kB RAM (right part) and
a graphics solution using TIGA standard (Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture)
It consists of a TMS34020 graphics Digital Signal Processor with 1 MB instruction RAM and 4 MB own framebuffer RAM. The RAM is plugged as SIPP on the card.
There is the option to plug a second TMS34020 graphics DSP in the free socket with 1 MB instruction RAM (free SIPP sockets).
The TMS34020 is able to execute own programs from the instruction RAM and render accelerated 2D graphics into the framebuffer. This Demo shows this nicely on a 386 system.
With the TIGA standard it was possible for the first time on PC to show TrueColor graphics.
The 4 MB framebuffer of the card enables resolutions of 1024x768 at 16.7 mio. colors or 1280x1024 at 64K colors at 60 Hz refresh rate.
The card is capable of displaying VGA and TIGA output at the same time on the two VGA connectors on the card. So with supporting applications it is possible to run a Dual View setup.
Using the VESA feature connector it is also possible to use a different VGA solution instead of the Acumos2 chipset.
another Number Nine #9 GXiTC / back
serial: 75583

Number Nine #9 GXE64 Pro
back side
Year of manufacture: 1994
Chip: 86C964-P, S3-Vision 964
4 MB DRAM, 70 ns
Ti Video DAC 135 MHz

Number Nine #9 Imagine128
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chipset: Imagine128 (LSI L1A9349), Cirrus Logic CL-GD5422, DAC: TI TVP3025-175PCE with 175 MHz
2D card targeted for the professional market
first card that features a complete 128 bit width interface
The CL-GD5422 is used for text mode, VGA and VESA,
in GUIs like windows the Imagine 128 chip with 4 MB VRAM is used.
early 3D acceleration features, no DirectX support


Avid Meridien III Cactus
these are infact three cards for video editing consisting of

Display Adapter
Dual Number Nine #9 Revolution3D Ticket to Ride
Graphics chips connected through Intel 21152 PCI to PCI bridge
for each Ticket to Ride chip: 8 MB WRAM, IBM 526 DAC
Tested in WinXP and works in Dual View mode, no Direct3D support
Tested in Win9x with Hawkeye driver for normal consumer card, installs two adapters, but only main adapter is useable, but with Direct3D support
Revolution3D Ticket to Ride video captures
Cactus Board back side
Dual SCSI controller + additional logic as Intel 21152 PCI to PCI bridge
3D Effects Board back side
plugged on Cactus Board
Pinnacle Genie Pro back side
cards connected via top connector (w/o display board)


Number Nine #9 Revolution IV
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chipset: Ticket to Ride IV
16 MB SDRAM
Clock: core 93 MHz
Number Nine cards are known to have messages in their PCBs.
So here is the message from Number Nine on this card.
Videos with benchmarks Final Reality / 3DMark2000 Demo

Diamond Fire GL 1000 4 MB / back
chipset: 3DLabs Permedia 1, 3DLabs GLINT Delta geometry processor
Year of manufacture: 1997

Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro 4 MB
Chipset: 3DLabs Permedia 2, PCI
4 MB SGRAM
Year of manufacture: 1997
Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro 8 MB / back
8 MB SGRAM, PCI

phase 5 G-REX3D
Chipset: 3DLabs Permedia 2
8 MB SGRAM
This card was originally sold for the Mac platform.
Year of manufacture: 1997

STB Glydermax G-16
Chipset: 3DLabs Permedia2
8 MB SGRAM
Year of manufacture: 1998

SIS 6202 PCI
1 MB DRAM?
Year of manufacture: 1996

SIS 6326 AGP
2 MB DRAM
video decoder & MPEG interface
Version with 4 MB ?
This card already featured 3D acceleration, but performance is abysmal. Check out this video.

FAST Movie Machine II / with unplugged daughterboards
ISA card for video editing. Requires ISA busmastering capable mainboard. It has the MPEG Piggy 1.0 extension for MPEG 1 playback and MJPEG 1.1 extension for hardware encoding.
The video signal of the primary VGA card is routed by loopback cable and the video preview is overlayed by color keying.
Year of manufacture: 1995

miro Video DC1
ISA video + Motion JPEG encoder/decoder card
Year of manufacture: 1996

ATI VGA Improved Performance ViP / back
Year of manufacture: 1987
chipset: ATI 16890, Chips P82C441, 35 MHz DAC from INMOS
This 8 bit ISA card is the first graphics card from ATI implementing VGA.
It has 256 kB 120ns DRAM as well as an additional connector for older EGA screens.

ATI GRAPHICS ULTRA
Year of manufacture: 1992
chipset: ATI 28800-6 (XVGA), ATI 38800-1 (Mach8, 8514/A)
This card combines the VGAWonder core with 512 kB 80ns DRAM (lower RAM ICs) and
a Mach8 core that is essentially a IBM 8514/A clone with 1 MB DRAM (SIPPs).
The IBM 8514/A standard allows to display 1024x768 at 256 colors at 43 Hz interlaced.
So this graphics card features two graphic solutions on one board. There were also versions with a Bus Mouse interface (not on this card)

ATI VGAWonder XL
Year of manufacture: 1992
chipset: ATI 28800-5
1 MB DRAM
on the photo the BIOS chip and Quartz is missing.
another ATI VGAWonder XL
Year of manufacture: 1991 week 44
chipset: ATI 28800-5
1 MB DRAM
EGA and VGA connector, switches fully into to EGA mode if an EGA monitor is used.

ATI TV Wonder Pro
Year of manufacture: 1998
ISA card with TV-tuner and video input
Chipset: BT829
note that ISA is just used for power supply and the card has to be connected to the Ati Media Connector (AMC) of  the primary ATI graphics card.

ATI Mach64 GX
Year of manufacture: 1995
4 MB DRAM
external ATI Spectra DAC
ATI Mach64 GX
Year of manufacture: 1994
4 MB DRAM, external ATI Spectra DAC

ATI Mach64 CT
Year of manufacture: 1995
2 MB DRAM
internal DAC

ATI Mach64 VT
Year of manufacture: 1995
2 MB DRAM, internal DAC
Ati Graphics Pro Turbo PCI (atim64-VT)
Powerstrip reports: Mem 63 MHz
PCB from 1995
ATI Mach64 VT
PCB from 1997

ATI Rage II PCI
Year of manufacture: 1996
2 MB SGRAM

ATI Rage II+DVD PCI (ATI 3D Charger)
Year of manufacture: 1997
2 MB DRAM
Rage II+DVD added hardware support for Motion Compensation for DVD playback
video for DVD playback quality comparison

ATI Rage IIC AGP
Year of manufacture: 1998

ATI Rage Pro Turbo
Year of manufacture: 1999
Chip: Rage Pro
4 MB, PCI
ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP
Year of manufacture: 1998
ATIs Rage Pro series already features Motion Compensation in hardware to support DVD playback
video for DVD playback quality comparison

ATI Rage Pro All in Wonder PCI
Year of manufacture: 1997
Chip: Rage Pro AGP 2X (the card is PCI though)
memory: 4 MB SGRAM on the board plus 4 MB SGRAM more in the upgrade slot.
BT829 video IC

ATI RageXL
Year of manufacture: 1999
Chipset: RageXL
low cost Rage Pro solution
Core 75 MHz, Mem 75 MHz 8 MB SDRAM

ATI Rage 128 (Rage Fury) / back
Year of manufacture: 1999
chipset: Rage128 GL, AGP 2x, 32 MB SDRAM
Core: 90 MHz, Mem: 90 MHz (powerstrip) (ca. 1673 3DMarks 2000@P3 800 MHz)
TV-out with ImpacTV2 chip and small extension board

ATI Rage128 GL
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chipset: Rage128 GL
Core: 103 MHz, Mem: 103 MHz SDRAM
introduced: Twin Cache Architecture, IDCT to accelerate DVD Mpeg2 decoding
video for DVD playback quality comparison

ATI Rage128 GL low profile / back

ATI Rage Fury MAXX / back
Year of manufacture: 2000
chipset: dual Rage 128 Pro at 125 MHz with 32 MB SDRAM at 143 MHz for each core
AGP 4x, driver support for Windows 98/ME only, no TnL support, uses Alternative Frame Rendering (AFR)
performance is roughly between Geforce256 SDR and DDR with advantages at 32 bit modes due to optimized memory bandwidth.

ATI Radeon 7000 / back side
Year of manufacture: 2001
Chipset: ATI Rage 6S / RV100 at 160 MHz
128 bit memory bus with 64 MB SDR-SDRAM at 160 MHz

ATI Radeon 7200
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chipset: ATI Rage 6 / R100 at 166 MHz
128 bit memory bus with 32 MB SDR-SDRAM at 166 MHz

ATI Radeon 9100
Year of manufacture: 2003?
Chip R200 at 250 MHz, RAM at 500 MHz
Radeon 8500 LE with Rage Theater Chip

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro / back
Year of manufacture: 2003
Chip: R360 / Rage Theater 213RT
Brand: Asus A9800Pro/TVD
Core 380 MHz, Mem 340 MHz 256 MB GDDR

Compaq PowerStorm 300 AGP / back
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chipset: Evans & Sutherland REALimage 2100 at 100 MHz
Model: PBPSPERAGP
AGP 1x, IBM RGB640 RAMDAC 220 MHz
15 MB 3DRAM and 16 MB CDRAM at 10 ns, 64 bit data path
full OpenGL 1.1 support, resolution upto 1280x1024 24bit 85 Hz
OS support: Windows NT

Avance Logic Inc. ALG2228A photo (c) Stelios Gikas
Year of manufacture: 1994
Chip: ALG2228.A
1 MB DRAM (max. 2 MB, this card has no additional sockets though), 32 bit bus
TrueColor DAC
VLB

Avance Logic Inc. ALG2101 / back
Year of manucature: 1993
chipset: ALG2101 / ALG1101 16 bit RAM DAC
ISA, 1 MB DRAM 70 ns, VFC

V7-VEGA Plus
Year of manufacture: 1994
Chip: Avance Logic Inc. ALG2301

SPEA V7-VEGA
another SPEA V7-VEGA
chipset: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 / integrated CL 24 DAC
1 MB DRAM 70 ns
supports VESA 1.2

SPEA V7-VEGA Video
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: Avance Logic Inc. ALG2302.A

SPEA V7-MIRAGE
Year of manufacture: 1993
chipset: S3 86C801C / ATT20C491-11 110 MHz DAC
2 MB DRAM 60 ns / 45ns
VESA 1.2 with TSR

SPEA V7-MERCURY Pro
Year of manufacture: 1993
chipset: S3 Vision 86C928D
4 MB DRAM 70 ns, 170 MHz DAC
VESA 1.2 with TSR.

VideoLogic 928Movie / back
Year of manufacture: 1994
chipset: S3 Vision 86C928D
2 MB DRAM 70ns, sockets for additional 2 MB DRAM
VideoLogic VL i110a Video Scaler chip (Powerplay3²)
BT485 RAM DAC with 135 MHz
Audio support with Crystal CS4231 codec, however no usual audio jacks.
When playing videos on this ISA card the scaler chip interpolates the source resolution to the viewport window with high quality.
Features like this got common much later with PCI chipsets such as S3 Trio64V+.

Avance Gala Vision 64
Chipset: Avance Logic Inc. ALG2564

Genoa Systems VideoBlitz 9200VL
Year of manufacture: 1993
Vesa Local Bus
chipset: Weitek 5186, Weitek P9000, AT&T RAMDAC 135 MHz
256 kB for VGA (5186) and 2 MB for Windows 2D accelerated (P9000)

DSystems UltraCAD Papilio G1-2
PCI, 2 MB VRAM
Weitek P9100 graphics processor and IBM RGB525 Palette DAC
Was sold as CAD targeted graphics solution. Price was around 400 DM in August 1996 for the 2 MB VRAM / 170 MHz DAC version.
Rather slow in plain DOS, only VBE 1.02 support with a TSR. In Win9x 2D accelerated and full VBE3 support in DOS window.
The 2 MB VRAM version was sold with 170 MHz DAC. (G1-2)
The 4 MB VRAM version (GV1-4x) with 220 MHz DAC and optional a Weitek P9130 video coprocessor
Year of manufacture: 1996
printed manual present. Front / Back / driver disks
card with green PCB
Papilio G1-4 with 4 MB VRAM

Alliance ProMotion AT3D
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chipset: ProMotion-AT3D
4 MB EDO DRAM at 60 MHz
I am not sure if 3D was ever fully functional in this chipset but judge yourself from this brief video.

Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr2 CT7120
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chipset: ZiVA-DS-L / BT865
MPEG2 accelerator card for DVD playback, plays also video files
incl. Creative Encore DVD Player (Ravisent Engine)
uses loop through VGA cable and color keying in a rectangular area to show video.
quality is rather poor, works well only with NTSC DVDs (640x480)
The decoding is limited to a certain number of scanlines (est. 511),
so it cuts off the lower part of videos in PAL resolution (704x576).
video for DVD quality comparison

Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr3 CT7240
Creative PC-DVD Encore Dxr3 CT7260
Year of manufacture: 1999/2000
Chipset: CT7235-VBQ Rev.B (relabelled EM8300)
MPEG2 accelerator card for DVD playback

CineMaster C 3.0
Year of manufacture: 1998
by Quadrant International
Chipset: ZiVA-PC by C-Cube Microsystems / BT865
MPEG2 accelerator card for DVD playback, player allows to play also video files
incl. Ravisent DVD Player, uses AMC to render to primary graphics card.
video for DVD quality comparison

ELSA Victory Erazor AGP, Riva128
chipset: NV3, 350 nm, AGP 2x
4 MB SGRAM at a 128 bit interface,
Clock: core 100 MHz / mem 100 MHz
3D-acceleration of DirectX5 features, no fog table support, no multitexturing.
230 MHz DAC, max. 1600x1200x64k at 85Hz
VBE3.0 support, DDC1 and DDC2B, Flash BIOS
3D accelerated modes up to 960x720 at 16 bit color depth.
-> TV In- and Output, The ITT chip controls the video inputs.
The Riva128 card from ELSA was quite popular since it had decent 3D acceleration and video-in features that could be used to watch encrypted pay-tv channels with a good performing PC.
ELSA Victory Erazor PCI / back

Diamond Viper V330, Riva128
Chipset: NV3
4 MB SGRAM at 100 MHz 128 bit, core 100 MHz
Year of manufacture: 1997

ASUS V3000ZX, Riva128ZX / back
Chipset: NV3
250 MHz DAC, 8 MB SGRAM
8 MB RAM enabled the use of Riva128s Antialiasing feature.

Canopus PWR128A-GTV
Chipset: Riva128
Year of manufacture: 1998
This card features a different Video-In solution compared to the Elsa Victory Erazor.
It is based on a BT829 that is also found on the ATI TV Wonder series.
The box also includes the game Bio Hazard by Capcom (in other areas renamed to Resident Evil) and Daytona USA Evolution by Sega.
Original Box, back side, manuals, driver and game CDs

Intel i740
Chipset: Intel i740, AGP 2x
The 8 MB SDR SDRAM with 64 bit interface on the card is used for framebuffer only
Core 55 MHz, Mem 110 MHz
Intels video card to promote the Advanced Graphics Port which was introduced shortly before. The card uses AGP features extensivly and streams all textures from system memory.
Video with benchmarks on Intel i740
Intel i740 with Sigma Designs Malibu DVD upgrade / unplugged
The upgrade board uses the Realmagic EM8220 Mpeg2 Decoder chip.
Video for quality comparison

Rendition Verite 1000 / back
brand: miro miroCRYSTAL VRX
chipset: Rendition V1000
4 MB EDO RAM
This card features a fully programmable RISC based CPU as GPU.
supports the rredline API

Rendition Verite 2200
Chipset: Rendition V2200 at 55 MHz
8 MB SGRAM (there are also two chips on the back side) at 110 MHz
This card features a fully programmable RISC based CPU as GPU.
Despite the low clockrate the chip calculates one pixel per clock and does the triangle setup.
supports the rredline API

Matrox m3D
Chipset: PowerVR PCX2
Year of manufacture: 1997
This card has 2 MB texture RAM and renders directly through the PCI bus into the framebuffer of the primary graphics card at 16 or 24 bit color depths.
The driver supports D3D and also it's own SGL standard. The NEC chip uses the tile based rendering method.
Here are some demonstration videos:
Special Ultim@te Race demo track for PowerVR.
Dethkarz with PowerVR PCX2 using D3D
Unreal using the SGL renderer.
Unreal Tournament using the SGL renderer.
more Unreal Tournament on PowerVR.

Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT
Chipset: PowerVR  ST Kyro
Year of manufacture: 2000
32 MB SDRAM
Clock: Chip 115 MHz, Mem 115 MHz

Hercules 3D Prophet 4500XT
Chipset: PowerVR ST Kyro II
Year of manufacture: 2001
64 MB SDRAM
Clock: Chip 175 MHz, Mem 175 MHz

Pixel Perfect Kyro II PCI / back
Chipset: PowerVR ST Kyro II
Year of manufacture: 2005

3dfx Voodoo
The first successful consumer 3D add on card for PC.
The video signal of the primary graphics card is routed through a loopback cable and replaced by the Voodoos own output when the board is used.
PCI, 2 MB EDO framebuffer + 2 MB EDO texture RAM at 50 MHz, 64 bit bus.
3D resolutions up to 640x480 with z-buffer. The chip uses a 4x1 pixel linear filter to generate the 16 bit color of the output pixel.

3dfx Voodoo, miro Highscore 3D / back
This card features 6 MB EDO RAM and TV-Out
Year of manufacture: 1998

Skywell Magic 3D Plus, 3dfx Voodoo / back
This card features 8 MB EDO RAM with 4 MB framebuffer and 4 MB texture RAM. This allows resolution with z-buffer up to 800x600.
Due to the larger texture RAM this card is also faster in some texture intense games, f.e. in Unreal Flyby at 640x480 it scores 18.2 fps while the regular Voodoo scores 14.1 fps, this is 129% performance of the original 4 MB Voodoo.
The chip uses a 4x1 pixel linear filter to generate the 16 bit color of the output pixel.
Year of manufacture: 1998

3dfx Voodoo 2
PCI, successor of the 3Dfx Voodoo, separate add on card for 3D accelerated graphics
brand: Gainward
4 MB framebuffer + 8 MB texture EDO RAM at 90 MHz 64 bit, on the backside of the board are additional memory ICs soldered in identical orientation.
The video signal of the primary graphics card is routed through a loopback cable and replaced by the Voodoo 2s own output when the board is used.
Compared to the Voodoo a second texture unit was added thus enabling multitexturing capabilities.
With the SLI connector (top side) you can pair two cards for increased performance and enabling 1024x768 as max. resolution for 3D accelerated modes.
(SLI = Scan Line Interleave)
The card on the photo has faster memory chips allowing operation at 110 MHz.
The chip uses a 4x1 pixel linear filter to generate the 16 bit color of the output pixel.

3dfx Voodoo Rush
Chipset: MX86251, 8 MB EDO (Voodoo) + 2 MB (Macronix)
Brand: Gainward Dragon 2000
Year of manufacture: 1998
Combination of the Voodoo chipset with the Macronix chipset as core for 2D graphics.
The Voodoo part runs at 50 MHz with 64 bit memory bus. Due to the internal mapping of the voodoo graphics chip behind the 2D core the performance is about 10% lower than a 3dfx Voodoo card in fullscreen mode. 
The chip uses a 4x1 pixel linear filter to generate the 16 bit color of the output pixel.
There were also versions of the Voodoo Rush that used the Alliance ProMotion AT25 and AT3D as 2D chipset.

3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Maxi Gamer Phoenix PCI
Chipset: Voodoo Banshee
brand: Guillemot
PCI, 16 MB SGRAM at 100 MHz 128 bit.
Year of manufacture: 1998
The Banshee features the new developed 2D core that is very fast.
Compared to the Voodoo2, Banshee has a slightly higher clock rate but only one texture unit.
It does implement a 2x2 pixel box filter to interpolate from 24 bit to 16 bit output, which was called "22 bit quality".
brown PCB

3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Maxi Gamer Phoenix PCI / back
green PCB, memory ICs on both sides

3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Maxi Gamer Phoenix PCI
green PCB, memory ICs on front side

ELSA Victory II-A16 / back
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chipset: 3dfx Voodoo Banshee
AGP 2x, 16 MB SGRAM

3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Innovision Mighty Banshee PCI
Chipset: Voodoo Banshee
PCI ,16 MB SDRAM 7 ns at 100 MHz
It does implement a 2x2 pixel box filter to interpolate from 24 bit to 16 bit output, which was called "22 bit quality".
Year of manufacture: 1999

3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI
16 MB SDRAM 6 ns at 143 MHz
Year of manufacture: 1999
max. 256x256 pixel textures
It does implement a 2x2 pixel box filter to interpolate from 24 bit to 16 bit output, which was called "22 bit quality".
rendering in 16 bit

3dfx Voodoo3 3000
16 MB SDRAM 6 ns at 166 MHz
max. 256x256 pixel textures
It does implement a 2x2 pixel box filter to interpolate from 24 bit to 16 bit output, which was called "22 bit quality".
rendering in 16 bit
Year of manufacture: 1999

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 / back
16 MB SDRAM 5.5 ns at 183 MHz
AGP, TV Out
max. 256x256 pixel textures
It does implement a 2x2 pixel box filter to interpolate from 24 bit to 16 bit output, which was called "22 bit quality".
rendering in 16 bit
Year of manufacture: 2000

3dfx Voodoo3 3500TV / back / cable extension for VGA, Video In/Out
16 MB SDRAM 5.5 ns at 183 MHz, AGP
TV In/Out/Tuner connected with a special cable
max. 256x256 pixel textures
It does implement a 2x2 pixel box filter to interpolate from 24 bit to 16 bit output, which was called "22 bit quality".
rendering in 16 bit
Year of manufacture: 1999

3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI / back
32 MB SDRAM 6 ns at 166 MHz
chipset: one VSA-100 chip (Voodoo Scalable Architecture)
32 bit rendering, max. 2048x2048 pixel textures, supports 2x rotated grid super sample antialiasing (2x RGSSAA)
At 16 bit color depth the 2x2 box filter already used in Voodoo3 is applied.
Year of manufacture: 2000

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP / back
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
(chip coolers removed on this card)
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI / back
Year of manufacture: 2000
chipset: 2x VSA-100 (Voodoo Scalable Architecture) at 166 MHz
2x 32 MB SDRAM,
32 bit rendering, max. 2048x2048 pixel textures
supports 4x rotated grid super sample antialiasing (4x RGSSAA), due to fillrate limitations with 4x RGSSAA acceptable frame rates are only achieved up to 800x600 resolution.
At 16 bit color depth the 2x2 box filter already used in Voodoo3 is applied.
Requires an additional Molex power connector
PCI version features DVI as it was originally marketed for Mac.

Diamond Viper V550, Riva TNT
Chipset: NV4, 350 nm, AGP 2x
Clock: core 90 MHz, mem 110 MHz
16 MB SDRAM at 128 bit bus
features 32 bit rendering

STB Velocity 4400, Riva TNT
Chipset: NV4
16 MB SDRAM at 128 bit bus
Clock: core 90 MHz, mem 110 MHz
AGP 2x, TV-Out
features 32 bit rendering
Year of manufacture: 1999

Diamond Speedstar A200
Chip:  8 MB SDRAM, AGP 2x
Chip: S3 Savage4 Rev3
Driver reports: Board Model Stealth III 5xx series
Powerstrip reports: Core 110 MHz, Mem 125 MHz, AGP 2x SBA
noticeable dithering for rendering in 16 bit modes

Diamond Speedstar A90
16 MB SDRAM, AGP 4x
Chip: S3 Savage 4 Pro+

Diamond Stealth III S540
16 MB in 8 chips
Chip: S3 Savage 4 Pro+

Riva TNT2 M64
chipset: NV6, 250 nm, AGP 4x
Clock: core 125 MHz, mem 150 MHz
32 MB SDRAM at 64 bit bus
another Riva TNT2 M64

Elsa Erazor III, Riva TNT2
Year of manufacture: 1999
32 MB SDRAM at 128 bit bus
Chipset: NV5, AGP 4x
Clock: core 125 MHz / mem 150 MHz
Process 250 nm by TSMC, est. 15.000.000 transistors
2 texture units with bilinear filter support.
DirectX6 compliant

MSI MS8806, Riva TNT2 Pro
MSI MS8806, Riva TNT2 Pro without cooler
Year of manufacture: 1999
32 MB SDRAM at 128 bit bus
Chipset: NV5, 250 nm, AGP 4x
Clock: core 143 MHz / mem 166 MHz
active cooler removed on photo, the chip has the TNT2 Ultra marking but was sold as TNT2 Pro with reduced clock rates.
However this card also runs at Ultra clock rates (core 150 MHz / mem 183 MHz)
2 texture units with bilinear filter support.

ELSA Victory Erazor III Pro -32 ViVo / back side
Year of manufcture: 1999
32 MB SDRAM at 128 bit bus
Chipset: NV5, 250 nm, AGP 4x
Clock: core 143 MHz / mem 166 MHz
Video In and Out with the Conexant Bt869

Diamond Viper V770 Ultra, Riva TNT2 Ultra / back
Year of manufacture: 1999
32 MB SDRAM at 128 bit bus
Chipset: NV5, 250 nm, AGP 4x
Clock: core 150 MHz / mem 183 MHz

ASUS V6600, GeForce 256
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chip: NVidia NV10, 220 nm
AGP 4x, 32 MB SGRAM
first chip with Transform and Lighting (TnL) support, fulfills Direct3D 7 requirements
Clock: core 120 MHz / mem 150 MHz DDR SGRAM (300)
4 pixel pipelines, 4 texture units
Additional features on this card: TV In/Out
(active cooler is removed on the photo)
ASUS 3D-Shutterglasses connected via jack plug.

ASUS V7700, Geforce 2 GTS with 64 MB / back
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chipset: NV15, 180 nm, AGP 4x
64 MB DDR SDRAM 6ns at a 128 bit interface
Clock: core 200 MHz / mem 166 MHz DDR SDRAM (333)
4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
GTS - GigaTexel Shader, NSR - NVidia Shading Rasterizer, HDVP - High Definition Videoprocessor
Video Out

ELSA Gladiac GTS, GeForce 2 GTS
back side
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chipset: NV15, 180 nm, AGP 4x
32 MB DDR SDRAM 6ns at a 128 bit interface
Clock: core 200 MHz / mem 166 MHz DDR SDRAM (333)
4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
GTS - GigaTexel Shader, NSR - NVidia Shading Rasterizer, HDVP - High Definition Videoprocessor

GeForce2 Ti / back
Year of manufacture: 2001
Chipset: NV15, 180 nm, AGP 4x
64 MB DDR SDRAM at a 128 bit interface
Clock: core 250 MHz / mem 200 MHz DDR SDRAM (400)
4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
TV-Out

ELSA Gloria III, Quadro2 Pro
back side
Year of manufacture: 2001
Chipset: NV15, 180nm, AGP 4x
64 MB DDR SDRAM at a 128 bit interface
Clock: core 250 MHz / mem 200 MHz DDR SDRAM (400)
4 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
GTS - GigaTexel Shader, NSR - NVidia Shading Rasterizer, HDVP - High Definition Videoprocessor
has a DVI output, VGA and DVI can not be used at the same time.

Gainward GeForce 2 MX200
Year of manufacture: 2001
Chipset: NV11, 180 nm, AGP 4x
64 MB SDRAM at a 64 bit interface
Clock: core 175 MHz / mem 166 MHz
2 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each

Aopen PA256MX/II, GeForce 2 MX / back
Chipset: NV11, 180 nm, AGP 4x
32 MB SDRAM at a 128 bit interface
Clock: core 175 MHz / mem 166 MHz
2 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each

ELSA Gladiac 511 AGP, GeForce 2 MX400 / back
Year of manufacture: 2001
Chipset: NV11, 180 nm, AGP 4x
64 MB DDR SDRAM at a 64 bit interface
Clock: core 200 MHz / mem 166 MHz DDR SDRAM (333) / 350 MHz RAM DAC
2 pixel pipelines with 2 texture units each
TV-Out, features additionally Digital Vibrance Control compared to the NV15 chipsets.

GeForce 3 Ti500 / back
Year of manufacture: 2002
Chipset: NVidia NV20
Clock: core 240 MHz, mem 64 MB DDR SDRAM at 208 MHz (416)
LMA - Light Speed Memory Architecture, 3D Textures, nFinite FX Engine, Shadow Buffers

ATI Radeon 8500 / back
Box front / back / side / side2
Year of manufacture: 2002
Chipset: R200 chaplin, 150 nm, AGP 4x
64 MB DDR SDRAM
Clock: core 275 MHz / mem 275 MHz DDR SDRAM (550)
Second generation Radeon
Direct3D 8.1 compliant, supports Pixel Shader 1.4
latest driver is Catalyst 6.11

ATI Radeon 9000 / back
brand: HIS
Year of manufacture: 2003
Chipset: RV250 iris, 150 nm, AGP 4x
128 MB DDR SDRAM
Clock: core 200 MHz / mem 250 MHz DDR SDRAM (500)
further information

ATI Radeon 9250 PCI / back
brand: Connect3D
Chipset: RV280 (argus), 150 nm, PCI
128 MB DDR SDRAM
Clock: core 240 MHz / mem 166 MHz DDR SDRAM (333)
passive cooled
this card has a reduced memory clock (regular 400 MHz)

GeForce 4 MX 420
Chip: NVidia NV17S
Clock: core 250 MHz / 166 MHz SDR SDRAM 128 bit
Accuview Antialiasing, Lightspeed Memory Architecture II (LMA II), nview, Video Processing Engine (VPE)

GeForce 4 MX 440 8x / back side
Chip: NVidia NV18, AGP 8x
Clock: core 280 MHz / 130 MHz DDR SDRAM (260 MHz) 128 bit (default 275/250)
64 MB, DVI, VGA, TV-Out, passive cooled
Accuview Antialiasing, Lightspeed Memory Architecture II (LMA II), nview, Video Processing Engine (VPE)
This card is a strongly downclocked version with memory clock down from 250 MHz to 130 MHz, resulting in a fillrate similar to a GeForce2 MX400. This already takes the architectural enhancements like LMA II into account.

GeForce 4 MX 440 SE
Chip: NVidia NV17, AGP 4x
brand: Gainward
Clock: core 270 MHz / 200 MHz DDR SDRAM (400 MHz) 128 bit (default 250/166)
64 MB, TV-Out
Accuview Antialiasing, Lightspeed Memory Architecture II (LMA II), nview, Video Processing Engine (VPE)
This card uses slightly higher clock rates compared to default.

GeForce 4 MX 460 / back
Chip: NVidia NV17, AGP 4x
Clock: core  300 MHz / 268 MHz DDR SDRAM (536 MHz) 128 bit (default 300/550)
64 MB, TV In/Out
brand: MSI MS-8863 (sold by Medion in Aldi-PC)

GeForce 4 Ti 4200
Brand: MSI
Chip: NVidia NV28? , 150 nm process
AGP 8x, VGA, DVI, Video Out
Clock: Core 250 MHz / Mem 256 MHz DDR SDRAM (512 MHz)
128 MB DDR SDRAM
Features Accuview Antialiasing, Lightspeed Memory Architecture II, nFinite FX Engine II
due to the low price this card was very successful

GeForce 4 Ti 4400 / back
brand: ASUS V8840/128M(TVRD)
Chip: NVidia NV25, AGP 4x, VGA, DVI, Video Out
Clock: core 275 MHz / 225 MHz DDR SDRAM (550 MHz) 128 bit

GeForce 4 Ti 4600 / back
Brand: MSI MS-8872 V200
Chip: NVidia NV25, 150 nm process
Clock: Core 300 MHz / Mem 330 MHz DDR SDRAM (660 MHz) 128 bit
128 MB DDR SDRAM

GeForce FX5200 / back
Brand: MSI MS-8998 TD128LF
Chip: NVidia NV34, 150nm process
AGP 8x, 128 MB DDR SDRAM @ 128 bit bus
Clock: Core 250 MHz, Mem 200 MHz DDR SDRAM (400 MHz)

GeForce FX5200 / back
Chip: NVidia NV34, 150 nm process
AGP 8x, 64 MB DDR SDRAM @ 64 bit bus
Clock: Core 250 MHz, Mem 200 MHz DDR SDRAM (400)
This card has only half the memory bandwidth of the regular FX 5200.

GeForce FX5200 PCI / back
Brand: Zotac
Chip: NVidia NV34, 150nm process
PCI, 256 MB DDR
Clock: Core 250 MHz, Mem 166 MHz DDR (333)

GeForce FX 5600 / back
brand: MSI MS-8912 VER 330 VTDR
Chip: NVidia NV31, AGP 8x, 128 MB DDR SDRAM
Clock: Core 270 MHz / Mem 275 MHz DDR SDRAM (550)
supports Shader Model 2.0 / DirectX9

ATI Radeon X1050 / back
Brand: MSI V032
Chip: RV370, 110 nm, PCIe x16, 128 MB DDR2 SDRAM
Clock: Core 400 MHz / Mem 333 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (666)
passive cooled

ATI Radeon 9600XT / back
Brand: Connect3D, the original cooler was already replaced.
Chip: RV360
This is the refresh generation of the RV350 that uses the same 0.13 Micron technology, but with a low-k process.
Clock: Core 500 MHz, Mem 300 MHz DDR SDRAM (600)
128 MB DDR SDRAM with 128 Bit bus
2x 400 MHz RAM DAC, AGP 8x
4 pipeline, 1 texture unit each, complies with DirectX9 features.

GeForce 7100GS / back
Brand: MSI V034 V1.2
Chip: NV44
128 MB DDR2 SDRAM
Core: 350 MHz, Mem: 300 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (600)
PCIe x16, passive cooled, VGA+DVI

GeForce 7300LE / back
Light Edition of the 7300GS version
128 MB DDR2 SDRAM 64 bit memory interface
Core: 350 MHz, Mem: 333 MHz DDR SDRAM (666)
Chipset: G72, 80 nm technology

GeForce 7950GX2 / back side
Chipset: 2xG71, 90 nm
Core: 500 MHz, Mem: 400 MHz GDDR3 SDRAM (1200)
2x 512 MB GDDR3
PCIe x16, full length
On this card are two G71 chips running in a SLI configuration. Another 7950GX2 could be added to run in a Quad-SLI configuration.

GeForce 8500GT
Chip: NVidia G86, 80nm
Core: 450 MHz, Shader 900 MHz, 400 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (800)
(passive cooler is removed on the photo)

Fujitsu Siemens DVI Add On card / back
This card feature just a small IC from SiliconImage.

ATI Radeon HD 5450 / back
Chip: Cedar Pro
PCIe x16, 512 MB
brand: MSI V218

Gigabyte Radeon R7 250X / back / box
Chip: R7 250
Core: 1100 MHz
1024 MB GDDR5 128 bit bus

Soundcards

Adlib MCA
Year of manufacture: 1990
Micro Channel Architecture bus, Yamaha YM3812 OPL2, Chips P82C611, volume potentiometer
due to a defect the soldered OPL2 was replaced with a socketed OPL2 (however this didn't fixed the card).

Adlib MSC 16 PnP
Year of manufacture: 1997
Chipset: Crystal CS4237B
FCC-ID: M4CS0013

ONLINE OPTI-WARE DSA-620 Digital Audio Recod/Playback card / back / manual covers
Year of manufacture: 1991
8 bit ISA, 4x RCA connector
Professional Digital Audio board using the Ti TMS320C25FNL
optional a DSP extension board was available for additional sound processing effects

Midiman Winman 4x4/S
Year of manufacture: 1998
FCC-ID: IMJMIX4X4
4-port Midi In/Out card
Box front / back
breakout cables
Manual / page 3 / page 5 / page 6
Driver Disk, driver CD

Avance Logic ALS 100
SB16 compatible ISA sound card with PnP, IDE interface
Year of manufacture: 1997
brand: Freetek

Avance Logic ALS 100Plus
SB16 compatible ISA sound card with PnP, wavetable connector
Year of manufacture: 1997
brand: Asonic

Avance Logic 120
SB16 compatible ISA sound card, wavetable connector
Year of manufacture: 1999
brand: Asonic

Aztech Sound Galaxy BXII
Year of manufacture: 1993
was f.e. sold by ESCOM.
SB 2.0 compatible?
Chips: AZTSB0792, AZTDSP36, Yamaha OPL2

identical sound card from KTL-Research-Unlimited
Year of manufacture: 1993
similar design as CPS SB 2.5.
Chips: AZTSB0792, AZTDSP36, Yamaha OPL2

Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 II (old version)
Year of manufacture: 1995
Compatibility: SB Pro 2, WSS
Chip: AZT1605, CS4231A, Yamaha OPL3
Revision 5.1

Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 II (old version)
Year of manufacture: 1994
Compatibility: SB Pro 2, WSS
Chip: AZT1605, AD1848 SoundPort, Yamaha OPL3
Revision 5.0

Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Extra II-3D
Chip: AZT2316-S, CS4231A, Yamaha OPL3

Aztech Multimedia Pro 16 III PnP
Year of manufacture: Nov 1998
Chip: AZT2320

Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 III-3D PnP
Chip: AZT2320
Year of manufacture: 1998

Aztech Waverider Platinum 3D PnP
Chip: AZT2320, Samsung SEC C727B KS0164, Samsung KS0174-1M04 Korean Wavetable
Year of manufacture: 1997
This card features SB Pro, OPL3 compatibility in DOS and offers also a hardware wavetable as internal MPU-401.
The wavetable is a Samsung Omniwave Synthesizer with 32 voices/16bit/44.1kHz and a 1 MB ROM on the card. (support for compressed samples)
It is GM, GS compatible and supports also MT-32 instrument mapping. The Synthesizers Firmware was developed at Sequoia Development Group by Pegasus Technologies.
IDE and Wavetable connector not soldered

in DOS the tool AZTPNP.EXE is used to set the configuration.
The Windows 95 driver version 1.10 installs additionally an Software Synthesizer with 64 voices. (Conexant Wavestream Synthesizer)
It comes with a 9 MB Endless WaveStream Soundfont. Aztech included a third MIDI device called Aztech Compound Synthesizer where the MIDI playback device for each instrument can be chosen. The readme advertises it as 96 voices synthesizer (32 hardware voices + 64 software voices).
The software synth can only be used in Windows 9x.

The wavetable playback quality is quite good.
Manual  front, page 4,5
FCC-ID: I38-MMSN853

Crystal sound card from Gainward
Year of manufacture: 1999
Chip: Crystal CX4235
Compatibility: SB16, WSS
nearly no additional connectors

Crystal sound card CS4231/Opti 82C924
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: CS4231
Compatibility: WSS, supports ADPCM de-/compression in hardware, full duplex 16 bit
Chip: Opti 82C924
Compatibility: SB Pro 2

Philips PCA 70 SB
Year of manufacture: 1995
chipset: Opti 82C929A, Crystal CS4231A, OPL3
seems to be a rather common chipset combination.

Opti 82C931 ISA sound card
Year of manufacture: 1997
in DOS compatible to WSS, SB Pro2.
another Opti 82C931 ISA sound card
Year of manufacture: 1997
wavetable connector, IDE interface

Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum
Year of manufacture: 1991
8 bit ISA
Dual Yamaha OPL2 for Stereo playback
split ADC / DAC for record / playback
SCSI interface
FCC-ID: IXW650-0002-00

Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 Basic / Logitech SoundMan 16
Year of manufacture: 1993
Yamaha OPL3
FCC-ID: IXW-PAS16LL

Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum 16 LMSI
Year of manufacture: 1993
Yamaha OPL3, LMSI CD-ROM interface
FCC-ID: IXW-PAS16P

Media Vision Jazz16
Year of manufacture: 1994
SB Pro compatible
YMF262-M
supports 44.1 kHz 16 bit playback
MultiCD

Covox SM+
Year of manufacture: 1991
8 bit ISA card
Chip: Yamaha OPL2, 8 bit DAC for max. 44 kHz? Mono playback using port 330h
SoundMaster Plus, Made in USA.

Orchid SoundWave 32
Year of manufacture: 1993
Analog Devices SoundPort Codec for SB 1.x (internal reported DSP version 1.2) and WSS
Analog Devices DSPs for wavetable playback. 2x 512KB ROM with instrument samples from Orchid.
The wavetable ROM from Orchid is the original cards version, quality is rather poor. There is the option to load different DSP firmwares for GM or MT-32 playback mode.
Cards versions:
1x 512 KB ROM or 2x 512 KB ROM from Orchid
later new ROM ICs could be bought for $39.95 from Orchid with instrument samples from InnoVision.
These require different drivers and DSP firmware and may have a different playback quality.
(driver/manual present)
In a comparison of wavetable boards from Heimlich (posted in Usenet in 1995) the playback quality for music using the better ROMs from InnoVision yielded a rating of 2 of 10 points.
This is in line with my personal impression.
See also wavetable recordings for comparison.

Mozart-16
Year of manufacture: 1994
Chip: OTI601
Codec: AD SoundPort AD1848KP
Yamaha OPL3
CD-ROM support for Panasonic/Mitsumi/IDE/Sony
Compatibility in DOS: SB 2.0 / WSS / OPL3

Mozart Wave-Table
Year of manufacture: 1995
Chip: OTI601
Codec: AD SoundPort AD1846JP
Wavetable: Yamaha OPL4 YMF278B-F with 2 MB wavetable ROM YRW801-M
CD-ROM support for Panasonic/Mitsumi/IDE/Sony
Compatibility in DOS: SB 2.0 / WSS / OPL3 (FM part of the OPL4)
Compatibility in Windows 3.x: OPL4 Wavetable MIDI playback.
The driver is rather dumb, so it requires some user help to get OPL4 support working.

Mirosound PCM1 Pro
Year of manufacture: 1994
Chipset: Opti82C929A, Crystal CS4231A, Yamaha OPL4 YMF278B-F with 2 MB wavetable ROM YRW801-M
CD-ROM support for Panasonic/Mitsumi/IDE/Sony
Also driver for Win9x available.

Highscreen Sound Boostar
Year of manufacture: 1994
chipset: ESS AudioDrive ES1868F
compatible to SB 2.0, SB Pro, OPL3
FCC-ID: KWX-SC1671
misplaced Wavetable connector, IDE

Highscreen Sound-Boostar 16/32 3D V1.4
Year of manufacture: 1997
chipset: Analog Devices SoundPort AD1816AJS
compatible to Sb 2.0, SB Pro, OPL3
Wavetable connector, Radio Module 2 connector
FCC-ID: LWHA211A60

Shuttle Spacewalker Soundsystem HOT-247 Ver. 2.0
Box front, back, side
Software CD
Year of manufacture: 1997
Chipset: Opti 82C933
incl. Cybersynth from Invision (Software Synth)
4 MB soundfont, 64 voices

Soundblaster 2.0 CT1350B
Year of manufacture: 1993
without CMS (Creative Music System) chips.
Soundblaster 2.0 (intern DSP 2.02), 44 kHz, 8 Bit, mono

CPS Soundblaster 2.5 / Aztech Sound Galaxy NX II
Year of manufacture: 1993
At this time Creative allowed companies to sell cards with the brand Soundblaster.
Here a Aztech Sound Galaxy NX II was relabelled as Soundblaster.
The DSP reports version 2.01 supporting 44.1 kHz 8 bit mono, real Yamaha OPL2.
In comparison to an actual Soundblaster this card allows to set Bass/Treble and resources by software and EEPROM.
It also covers Disney Sound Source and Covox Speech Thing standard
Original box: front / back / side

Soundblaster Pro 2 CT1600
Year of manufacture: 1992
internal DSP version 3.01
44 kHz stereo at 8 bit
Yamaha OPL3 YMF262
CD-ROM interface for Panasonic
another Soundblaster Pro 2 CT1600
internal DSP version 3.02
additional Quarz

Soundblaster 16 ASP CT1740
Year of manufacture: 1993
internal DSP version 4.05
this DSP version should not have the Hanging Notes Bug which is symptomatic for a wide range of soundblaster cards..
Advanced Signal Processor, Yamaha YMF262-M OPL3
Wavetable connector
non-PnP, fully jumperable

Creative WaveBlaster CT1900
The original wavetable expansion utilizing the waveblaster connector.
uses E-MU Soundengine 1993
Chips: Motorola 68000 CPU, OKI E-MU Rev.A IC404B, Predecessor of the AWE32s DSP IC405B (EMU8000)
4 MB soundfont ROM
comparison recordings

Soundblaster 16 MCD CSP CT1750
Year of manufacture: 1994
CD-ROM interface for Sony, Mitsumi, Panasonic (MCD = Multi-CD)
Advanced Signal Processor, Yamaha YMF262-M OPL3
Wavetable connector
non-PnP, fully jumperable
DSP 4.11

Soundblaster 16 SCSI-2 CSP CT1770
Year of manufacture: 1994
SCSI-2 interface
Advanced Signal Processor, Yamaha YMF262-M OPL3
Wavetable connector
non-PnP
DSP 4.12

Soundblaster 16 MCD CSP CT2230
Year of manufacture: 1994
CD-ROM interface for Sony, Mitsumi, Panasonic (MCD = Multi-CD)
Advanced Signal Processor
Creative OPL3 Nachbau
Wavetable connector
Semi-PnP
DSP 4.13
another Soundblaster 16 MCD CSP CT2230
w/o Sony and Mitsumi connector

Soundblaster 16 Pro CSP CT2290
Year of manufacture: 1994
CD-ROM interface for Creative/Panasonic, IDE
Advanced Signal Processor
Creatives own OPL3 solution
Wavetable connector
Semi-PnP
DSP 4.13

Soundblaster 16 Value CT2770
Year of manufacture: 1994
Interface for Panasonic CD-ROM
Creatives own OPL3 solution
DSP 4.12

Soundblaster Vibra16S Value PnP CT2890
Year of manufacture: 1996
IDE interface, Wavetable connector, external audio inputs
Yamaha YMF262-M OPL3

Soundblaster 16 Pro CT2910
Year of manufacture: 1995
CD-ROM IDE interface
Wavetable connector
Yamaha YMF289B OPL3 - low voltage version and Yamaha YAC516 Delta Sigma ADC
DSP 4.13

Soundblaster 16 PnP CT2940
Year of manufacture: 1995
CD-ROM IDE interface, Wavetable connector, external audio inputs
reg. FCC-ID also known as Vibra16F

Soundblaster 16 Pro PnP CT2950
Year of manufacture: 1995
CD-ROM IDE interface, wavetable connector, external audio inputs, no CSP chip
DSP 4.13

Soundblaster 16 Value PnP OEM CT2960
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chipset: Vibra16C single chip solution
Wavetable Connector

Soundblaster 16 Value PnP CT2980
Year of manufacture: 1996
CD-ROM IDE interface, Wavetable connector

Soundblaster Vibra 16C CT4180
Year of manufacture: 1997, without Wavetable/IDE

Soundblaster Vibra 16XV WavEffects CT4170
Year of manufacture: 1997, without Wavetable/IDE, a bit different PIN connectors than the CT4180
Soundblaster Vibra 16XV WavEffects CT4170
Year of manufacture: 1998

Soundblaster AWE32 MCD CT2760
Year of manufacture: 1994, non-PnP, MultiCD connectors, 2x SIMM slots
1 MB ROM, 512 kB RAM
Wavetable connector
Creatives own OPL3 solution CT1747
Advanced Signal Processor
DSP 4.13

Soundblaster AWE32 IDE CT3900
Year of manufacture: 1995, non-PnP, MultiCD connectors, 2x SIMM slots,
1 MB ROM, 512 kB RAM
Creatives own OPL3 solution CT1747
Wavetable connector
DSP 4.13 ?

Soundblaster AWE32 Value IDE CT3910
Year of manufacture: 1995, non-PnP
1 MB ROM, 512 kB RAM, no SIMM slots
no Advanced Signal Prozessor
Creatives own OPL3 solution CT1747
DSP 4.13

Soundblaster AWE32 IDE CT3980
Year of manufacture: 1995, semi-PnP
1 MB ROM, 512 kB RAM, 2x SIMM slots
Creatives own OPL3 solution CT1747
Wavetable connector
CD-ROM IDE interface
DSP 4.13

Soundblaster AWE32 Value MCD CT3780
Year of manufacture: 1995
Semi-PnP
1 MB ROM, 512 kB RAM, no SIMM slots, DSP 4.13
Creatives own OPL3 solution CT1747, CD-ROM interface for Mitsumi, Panasonic, Sony
no Advanced Signal Prozessor, no Wavetable connector

Soundblaster 32 IDE PnP CT3670
Year of manufacture: 1996
Soundblaster AWE32 without 512 kB RAM
1 MB ROM (uncompressed), 2x SIMM slots
no Waveblaster connector
higher integrated version of the CT3620 card.

Soundblaster AWE32 IDE PnP CT3620
Soundblaster AWE32 with IDE interface and 2x SIMM slots upto max. 28 MB.
1 MB Wavetable ROM (uncompressed)
DSP 4.13
no Wavetable connector
higher integrated version of the CT3600.

Soundblaster 32 IDE PnP CT3600
Year of manufacture: 1996
Soundblaster AWE32 with IDE interface, 2x SIMM slots.
without 512 KB RAM, (compare to CT3620)
1 MB Wavetable ROM (uncompressed)
no Wavetable connector

Soundblaster AWE64 PnP CT4380
Year of manufacture: 1997. 1 MB Wavetable ROM (uncompressed), 512 KB RAM,
Actually more or less a AWE32 with proprietary memory upgrade option, that was rather expensive and has to be bought from Creative.
AWE64 software package featured a wavetable softsynth WaveSynth/WG for the additional virtual channels.
What is the AWE64 ? (Jason Cross 1997)

Soundblaster AWE64 Gold PnP CT4390 / back
Year of manufacture: 1997, 1 MB Wavetable ROM, 4 MB RAM, 20 bit DAC, SPDIF Out
32 hardware channels and in Windows 32 additional channels using a software synthesizer from Creative called WaveSynth/WG with 'WaveGuide technology' (runs exclusivly on a Intel Pentium CPU)
proprietary memory upgrade option for EMU8K wavetable RAM.
no Wavetable connector

Soundblaster AWE64 CT4500
Year of manufacture: 1997
1 MB Wavetable ROM (uncompressed), 512 KB RAM
proprietary memory upgrade option
no Wavetable connector

Soundblaster AWE64 Value CT4520
Year of manufacture: 1997, 1 MB Wavetable ROM (uncompressed), 512 KB RAM
proprietary memory upgrade option
no Wavetable connector

Soundblaster Live! CT4670 / back
Year of manufacture: 1998
Chipset: EMU10K1
proprietary connector, no Wavetable connector

Soundblaster Live Value/Player Edition CT4830
Year of manufacture: 1999
Chipset: EMU10K1
proprietary connector, no Wavetable connector
newer revision with Sigmatel AC97 codec, supports AC97 V2.0.

Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic SB0640
Year of manufacture: 2005
local copy of datasheet from Creative server

Ensoniq Soundscape 2000 / back
Year of manufacture: 1994
first soundcard from Ensoniq for the PC
uses AD SoundPort 1848 Codec and OTTO R2 wavetable with 2 MB ROM

Gravis Ultrasound Classic Rev. 2.4 / back
Year of manufacture: 1992 (plugged memory chips are from 1993)
Gravis Ultrasound Classic Rev. 3.4
Year of manufacture: 1993
Original Box
GUS year of introduction: 1991, originally sold with 256 kB RAM and empty upgrade sockets.
GUS Classic with max. 1 MB Wavetable RAM, samples are loaded dynamically. General Midi/MT-32 and SB Pro compatiblity are implemented with an emulation TSR.
The GF1 DSP interpolates always to 44.1 kHz / 16 bit and mixes up to 32 voices in hardware.
The original GUS revisions have no volume mixer.
Gravis Ultrasound Classic clone
Primax Altrasound
The GUS was quite popular, so some companies released clone cards, as f.e. Primax.
This clone is 100% compatible to the original GUS and has additionally CD-ROM interfaces for IDE/Panasonic/Mitsumi/Sony and a digital mixer for the audio sources.
This clone was so popular that it was sold later by Gravis itself as GUS CD3.
Cards revision 3.7
Primax Music Sound / back
earlier version of Primaxs GUS clone without IDE interface.

Gravis Ultrasound ACE
This card was targeted primarily as low cost expansion of a present sound solution, so it has a line-in and line-out connector to route the audio signal through.
The card has all playback features of the original GUS with GF1 chip and 1 MB sample RAM.
(ACE = Audio Card Enhancer)

Gravis Ultrasound MAX / back
Year of manufacture: 1995
Revision 1.8
This card features an additional Crystal CS4231 Codec that adds Windows Sound System (WSS) compatibility, though at an unusual port address.
expanded to 1 MB RAM for the GF1

Gravis Ultrasound Pro PnP
Chipset: AMD InterWave
Wavetable: 2x SIMM, here with 8 MB (with a hardware hack where two additional SIMM slots are soldered at the back side upto 16 MB possible)
If Wavetable RAM is plugged the AMD InterWave is able to emulate a GUS Classic with 1 MB in hardware.
Revision 1.0

Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 Home Studio (SC8500)
'Late' ISA sound card with Dream SAM9407 DSP and 16 MB Wavetable RAM as PS/2 SIMM + 4 MB Wavetable ROM.
The Codec is a Crystal 4236.
Compatibility:
Crystal: SB Pro, WSS, OPL3.
Dream SAM9407: GM / GS + effects

In Win 9x/NT4:
Crystal: max. 16 Bit, 64 kHz playback/record.
Dream: 8 wave devices and 2 record devices + effects applicable, GM / GS.

Specification of the Dream SAM9407:
128 instruments, 97 sound variations, 200 percussion sounds in 16 drum sets in 4 MB ROM (Roland SoundCanvas licensed)
64 voices polyphony, 34 with all effects/inputs/surround enabled.
multi timbral on 16 channels
8 Reverb, 8 Chorus variations
4 channels equalizer, surround sound
GM/GS compatible

Digital:
16 bit, 44.1 kHz, full duplex
Playback of up to 8 wave files at the same time while one track is recorded with realtime effects on each seperate track.
Dynamical noise filter

Effects:
4 band equalizer and surround as after effects on MIDI, Wave, CD, Line-In, Micro
Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Flanger are useable on each Wave or Midi track, also pitch on the Wave tracks.
Echo and Reverb can be applied in realtime on the inputs.

Additionally all features of the Crystal CS4236 chips can be used.
The 4 MB ROM soundfont already present on the card is a later licensed version of the Roland Sound Canvas soundfont.

Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D (SC8600 Lite)
Box front / back / top / bottom / additional content
Chipset: ESS AudioDrive, Dream SAM9407
Year of manufacture: 1997
This card is split into a Codec (ESS AudioDrive) and the Dream Audio DSP.
The ESS ES1868F has SB Pro, OPL3 compatibility while the Dream SAM9407 offers GM / GS + effects
Output of the ESS AudioDrive is routed through the Dream DSP.
This card features 2 MB RAM and can be upgraded with max. 16 MB PS/2 SIMM for soundfonts.
Drivers and tools are mainly targeted for Win9x. The initialization tools for DOS allow to load a soundfont to RAM to get GM playback.
The box features a special version of the game POD with special Maxi Sound 64 support.
Also note that the photo of the card on the box is different from the actual hardware. It shows an addition ROM with Dream label close to the 2 MB RAM chip.
They probably had to revise the PCB due to the pending lawsuit for using a version of the Roland Sound Canvas soundfont and removed the ROM with it.

Terratec EWS64XL / Back / Front Module
EWS64XL card from Terratec with 5.25" expansion module with additional connectors.
This card is a 'late' ISA sound card and has a lot of features.
The design is similar to the Maxisound 64 Home Studio from Guillemot, but Terratec programmed their own firmware for the Dream SAM9407 and all available In- and Outputs have separate connectors.
It is also possible to change the internal audio signal routing between the codec, DSP, mixer on the card by software.
Highlights are:
64 channel DSP for Midi/Trackerfile playback, up to 64 MB Wavetable RAM. ( 2 MB RAM onboard, no ROM)
max. 32 wave devices in Windows.
2 digital outputs, 1 digital inputs (optical or coaxial) on the 5.25" module
optional Wavetable upgrade (connector in 5.25" module)
2 analog line-in with 16 bit / 48 kHz (Codec) and 18 bit / 48 kHz (Dream)
2 analog stereo outputs
2 duplex Midi interfaces
4 OP+ synthesizer
and much more... (The RTFM marking on the cards back side should be taken seriously.)

Terratec EWS64S
Lite version of the EWS64XL
Instead of the Crystal 4236B Codec chip the same codec as on the Terratec Base 1 was used: AD SoundPort AD1816AJS
Dream SAM9407 with 2 MB RAM and PS/2 SIMM slot for up to 64 MB, no wavetable connector
Radio connector for Terratec ActiveRadio (see also Terratec Base 1 with Radio modul)

Terratec MiniWave WT64 WaveTable
Waveblaster compatible Wavetable expansion card
Chip: Dream SAM9503
max. 48 voices polyphony, 34 with all effects enabled.
8 MBit CleanWave8 soundfont ROM from Crystal (1 MB)

Terratec Base 1
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: Analog Devices SoundPort AD1816JS, SB Pro compatible, in Win 16 bit stereo playback supported.
Wavetable and Terratec Radio-module connector.
More details at  www.terratec.de
Terratec Base 1 with ActiveRadio module
ActiveRadio driver req. Win98.

Terratec Gold 16/96 / back
Year of manufacture: 1996
chipset: ESS AudioDrive ESS1868F
Wavetable and IDE connector

Terratec Solo 1
Chipset: ESS Solo 1
inexpensive PCI sound card from Terratec

Terratex DMX Xfire1024 / back
Chipset: Crystal CS4624-CQ / CS4294
SP/DIF-Out, Wavetable connector
supports DirectSound3D, A3D 1.0/2.0, EAX 1.0/2.0

Roland Sound Canvas SCB-55 Wavetable Upgrade board
Year of manufacture: 1994
4 MB ROM
GM/GS compatible
can be set to MT-32 instrument mapping
compatible to external Roland Sound Canvas SC-55 MK.II
See also recording comparison of different wavetable solutions.

Yamaha DB50XG Wavetable Daughterboard
Year of manufacture: 1996
4 MB ROM, supports GM and XG MIDI standard.
can be set to MT-32 instrument mapping
See also recording comparison of different wavetable solutions.

ESS AudioDrive
Year of manufacture: week 40 / 1997
SB Pro compatible

Yamaha OPL3-Sax
Chipset: YMF718-S
Year of manufacture: 1996

Yamaha Xwave
Year of manufacture: 1999
PCI, Midi-XG in Windows

Fortemedia FM801
Year of manufacture: 2000
PCI, First sound chip, that could output in Dolby 5.1 standard.

Hercules Gamesurround Muse LT
PCI, 4 channel output support
Year of manufacture: 2002
Chipset: CMI8738


Controller


Generic Multi I/O card from Acer
Year of manufacture: 1992, Chip: Acer M5105
another Multi I/O card from Acer

Wish Design House WED 1.0 WDH-1001F / back
Year of manufacture: 1993
ISA disk drive controller card with support for four additional disk drives
has it's own BIOS.

Goldstar Prime 2 Multi I/O Controller
Year of manufacture: 1993
16 bit ISA
Goldstar Prime 2 Multi I/O Controller
Year of manufacture: 1993
Goldstar Prime 2 Multi I/O Controller
Year of manufacture: 1995

DTK Computer PTI-227W V3 Multi I/O Controller
chipset: Winbond W83757F, W83758P

Generic Multi I/O Karte from Winbond
Year of manufacture: 1997
very similar design as the PTI-227W

IDE + Floppy controller
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chipset: SMC Paddle chip

IDE + Floppy controller LCS-6623
Year of manufacture: 1992
chipset: SMC Paddle chip

Mitsumi IDE CD-ROM Controller card MTM2183
another MTM2183
A rather small ISA card with an additional IDE channel.
These cards were included with early IDE CDROM drives from Mitsumi

Tekram DC-600CF Green Cache IDE Controller / back
Year of manufacture: 1993
This controller features 4 SIMM sockets and is equipped with 4x 1MB cache RAM.
Beside the Tekram TRM600CF chip there is also a 20 MHz 286 CPU from Harris.

QDI QD6500A V2.0 VLB Multi I/O Controller / back
one IDE channel, floppy, 2x serial, parallel, game port.
Year of manufacture: 1993

QDI QD6580W V2.0 VLB Multi I/O Controller / back
one IDE channel, floppy, 2x serial, parallel, game port.
Year of manufacture: 1994

UMC 3292PUV-C V1 VLB Multi I/O Controller
Year of manufacture: 1994

Adaptec AVA-1505
ISA SCSI controller, SCSI-2
Year of manufacture: 1996
Chip: AIC-6360Q

Adaptec AHA-1540B/1542B
ISA SCSI Controller, SCSI-2
Year of manufacture: 1991
Floppy disk drive support

Adaptec AHA-1522A / back
ISA SCSI controller, SCSI-2
Year of manufacture: 1997
Floppy disk drive support
EEPROM replaced with latest 1.4 firmware

Adaptec AHA-2940
Year of manufacture: 1995,
PCI SCSI controller

Adaptec AHA-2940W/2940UW
Year of manufacture: 1998
PCI SCSI controller

Adaptec AAA-UDMA
IDE RAID controller, UDMA/66, RAID 0,1,0/1,5, 2 MB RAM (up to 64 MB)
note the complex conversion from a SCSI RAID controller logic to ATA interface with FPGAs.

Adaptec SATAConnect 1205SA
2 channel SATA controller max. 1.5 Gbit/s
48 bit LBA support
PCI 32 bit / 66 MHz

Adaptec AAR-2610SA / back
SATA RAID controller of the 2410 series.
supports RAID 0,1,5,10,JBOD, max. 1 TB drives, max. 2 TB RAID, 1.5 Gbits/s, 64 MB RAM
PCI 64 bit / 66 MHz
brand: Dell

1x Parallel Controller GW302A / back
Year of manufacture: 1993
8 bit ISA, Chipset: HM 82C11C, LPT2 port can be jumpered

1x Parallel controller
Year of manufacture: 1997
Chipset: HT6552PPV1

Costronic RTA-03C (II) 4x Serial card
Year of manufacture: 1996
socketed UART chips allow to use 16C450 and 16C550.

PC-LabCard series, PCL-744
8-port intelligent serial card
Year of manufacture: 1993
breakout cable, cable note
box

2x Serial, 1x Parallel Controller
Year of manufacture: 1988

Serial Parallel Controller card
Year of manufacture: 1990
1x serial + socket to add second serial interface.
1x parallel, 1x game port, chipset: SIS 82C11, SIS 82C450

Two Serial Parallel Controller cards
Year of manufacture: 1992 / 1995
Same design, 8 bit ISA, 2 serial, parallel, game port

Serial / Parallel card from HP-Vectra HP24540A
Year of manufacture: 1985

Miniscribe AT-disk controller
Year of manufacture: 1990.
AT disk controller for AT-compatible HDDs.
IDE and floppy connector

Kalok KL03F AT-disk controller
Year of manufacture: 1990
IDE and floppy connector

MFM controller
For two MFM HDDs and one FDD.
Year of manufacture: 1990.

16 bit ISA MFM controller
Another controller for two MFM HDDs and one floppy.
Year of manufacture: 1987 

ISA MFM controller
Year of manufacture: 1990
Chipset: WDC42C22A

Promise FastTrak100 TX2 / back
IDE RAID controller
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chipset: Promise Technology PDC20270
supports Dual Channel UDMA/100

Promise FastTrak150 SX4 / back
SATA RAID controller, supports RAID 0,1,0/1,5,JBOD, 64 MB to 256 MB RAM for cache (here 128 MB plugged)
chipset: Promise Technology PDC20621
32 bit PCI /  66 MHz

American Megatrends Inc. AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 / back
SCSI RAID controller series 467, four Ultra2 LVD channels with 4 external VHDC and 2 internal UHD connectors, Intel i960 RN I/O processor
supports RAID 0,1,3,5,10,30,50, cache battery backed
64 bit PCI, 66 MHz
AMI is now LSI

LSI Logic 20160-HP PCI SCSI controller
brand: HP
Year of manufacture: 2003
PCI, SCSI Ultra160
chipset: LSI53C1000

Symbios Logic PCI SCSI controller
brand: Centos
Type: CI-2520/60 Rev.C
Year of manufacture: 1998
2x 50 pin connector (internal and external)
chipset: 53C810AE

ALI USB 2.0 controller
Year of manufacture: 2004
chipset: ALI M5273
PCI

Development Concepts Incorporated 5250 Emulation card
Year of manufacture: 1995
ISA



Hard disks

Fujitsu M2266 / PCB
3.5" four height units
introduced 1990
Humming-6 Series, SCSI, 3600 rpm, 1165 MB capacity, transfer rate 3 MB/s
14 ms average positioning time, 8.4 ms average rotation delay
Metal-In-Gap head
identified by Torsten Baldauf, thanks.

Quantum Bigfoot 1280AT
5.25" half height unit
FAST ATA-2 interface, 3600 rpm
H2Benchw results
Bigfoot specification table (Bigfoot 1.2)

Seagate ST-251
31 MB MFM HDD
5.25"

NEC D5655 (top side)
bottom side
150 MB RLL HDD
5.25"
C/H/S 1223 / 7 / 34
PreComp: N/A
Landing Zone: 1224 (usually not necessary due to auto-park)
capacity in byte: 149.029.888
works may 10th 2007

KALOK OCTAGON KL343
back side / PCB
Year of manufacture: 1990
43 MB, C/H/S/PreComp/Landing Zone/BytesPerSector: 676/ 4/31/65535/675/512
3600 rpm, 1 MB/s transfer rate, 28 ms positioning time, MTBF 40000h
Jumper 5-6 Closed Master / 7-8 Closed Slave

H2Bench results

KALOK OCTAGON KL3100
bottom
105 MB ATA HDD
H2Benchw results

Seagate ST410800N Elite 9
5.25" one height unit
9 GB capacity, SCSI interface
Label
bottom
top side
front side

Western Digital WD Raptor WD1500ADFD
3.5" SATA, 150 GB capacity, 10000 rpm


Miscellaneous

640 kB memory board from HP-Vectra
incl. BIOS (see 286 mainboard from HP-Vectra)

DAC / Counter / Timer card from Burr Brown
Year of manufacture: 1990?
DAC and Counter/Timer are piggy packed boards on a carrier board.

unknown ISA card for measurement purposes (top), bottom
Year of wiring probably 1990
detailed purpose unknown

Nanoscope III Multimode AFM controller board / interface board
from Digital Intruments / Veeco
Year of manufacture: 1992
own system on board using DSP 56001RC20 from Motorola

Data Translation Inc. DT2821-F-8DI / back side
manual front side, manual card description, driver disks
This is a high speed multi function acquisition board.
Year of manufacture: 2000
It features a 12 bit ADC at max. 150 kHz, 12 bit DAC at max. 130 kHz with full DMA support for uninterrupted acquisition.
Input gain max. 8x.

Data Translation Inc. DT2817 / back side
manual front side, manual card description, driver disk
This data acquisition board features 32 digital I/O lines which can be configured in blocks of 8 lines for input or output.

BMC SYSTEME PC-121 V5.0 / back
ISA ADC card, 16 SE or 8 DI analog inputs, 12 bit resolution
max. 100 kHz shared
year of manufacture: 1999

Meilhaus Electronic ME-3000 / back
PCI acquisition card
16x 12 bit ADC channels, 4x 12 bit DAC channels, 32 digital I/O lines

Measurement Computing CIO-DAC02/16 / back
year of manufacture: 1999
2x 16 bit DAC output

wasco ADIODA-12B
year of manufacture: 1999

National Instruments PCI-MIO-16XE-10 (NI-6030E) / back
bus PCI,PXI
16 SE or 8 DI 16 bit ADC inputs at max. 100 kS/s
2x 16 bit analog outputs max 100 kS/s
8x digital I/O lines, 2x counter/timer with 24 bit

FAST ComTec MCD-2 / back
another FAST ComTec MCD-2 / back
Dual Input Multiscaler / Multichannel Analyzer ISA card
2x 50 Ohm terminated inputs for counter with programmable discriminator threshold (8 bit resolution within +-5 V)
8x digital I/O pins
1x 12 bit DAC output 0-10 V with internal ramp generator
1x 8 bit DAC output +-2.5 V or 0-10 V
1x Sync Out
Backup Battery
some features are optional

Keithley KPCI-3108 / back
PCI data acquisition card
16x single ended (or 8 differential) 16 bis ADC inputs, max. 100 kS/s, range +-0.0125 V to +-10 V
2x DAC output +-10 V, 100 kS/s
32x digital I/O lines
3x 16 bit counter/timer
12x auxiliary I/O lines for timer gating or clocking
256-location channel-gain queue to preprogram acquisition from channels at non-sequential order with different gain settings

COASt module for Pentium systems
256 kB Cache on a Stick with pipelined burst SRAM and Tag RAM chip.
There is no real standard for COASt modules, so always consult mainboard manual for the required specs and COASt module revision.

SIMMs with 16 MB capacity



Novell NE2000 network card
brand: Novell
this adapter established a quasi standard "NE2000 compatible".
Year of manufacture: 1990

Intel Etherexpress 16 network card
Year of manufacture: 1992

Compex network card
Year of manufacture: 1992
10 MBit/s, ISA

EN-3380 network card
Year of manufacture: 1992
Chip: UMC UM9001L

SMC network card
Year of manufacture: 1992
10 MBit/s, RJ45, AUI, BNC

SMC Elite 16 Ultra network card
Year of manufacture: 1994
10 MBit/s, ISA network card with buffer RAM, configurable by software

Linksys Ether 16 PnP
Year of manufacture: 1999
10 MBit/s, ISA, TP+BNC
is detected by Win9x as NE2000 compatible network card

DLINK DE-530CT+ network card
Year of manufacture: 1998
10 MBit/s, PCI
chipset: Digital 21041-PB

3COM Etherlink III 3C509-Combo
Year of manufacture: 1994 , 10 MBit/s, ISA

3COM Etherlink III 3C509B-C
Year of manufacture: 1995, 10 MBit/s, ISA

3COM Etherlink III 3C509B-C
Year of manufacture: 1997, 10 MBit/s, ISA

3COM FAST Etherlink XL PCI 3C905B-TX
Year of manufacture: 1999, 100 MBit/s, PCI
Parallel Tasking II

3COM Etherlink 10/100 PCI 3C905C-TX-M
Year of manufacture: 2000, 100 MBit/s, PCI

ATC PCNet-Fast+
Year of manufacture: 2002
optical 100 MBit/s network adapter

TRENDnet TEW-423PI
54 MBps Wifi PCI adapter , IEEE802.11g 2.4 GHz

Intel Pro 1000 MT
Year of manufacture: 2003
dual Gbit/s network adapter
64 bit PCI support



Digitec BTX modem
75 baud upstream, 1500 baud downstream
power is drawn from the COM port.

Vobis Volksmodem 14400 baud / bottom
standards: V32bis, MNP5
no Rockwell chipset
got printed manual

Creatix LC 144 VFi internal modem
Year of manufacture: 1995
Rockwell chipset, max. 14400 baud
manual page with settings

PCTel PCT789T-A PCI modem
another PCTel PCI modem card
Year of manufacture: 2000

Noname internal 14400 Faxmodem
Year of manufacture: 1995, Chipset: UMC UM92144CF

U.S. Robotics Sportster Winmodem 33.600
Year of manufacture: 1997
inexpensive modem that works in Win9x / NT4 only.
(also not in Win9x dos window)

56K PCI modem
chipset: Intel

ELSA Microlink 56K PCI modem
Rel. EC/16kHz
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chip: Conexant RH56D-PCI

Devolo Microlink 56 PCI modem
Year of manufacture: 2003
Chip: Conexant HSFi CX11252-11

AVM FRITZ!Card ISA
ISDN card, Compass FB-1
Year of manufacture: 1997

AVM FRITZ!Card PCI
ISDN card, Felix ME2
Year of manufacture: 1998

Cologne ISDN card
Year of manufacture: 2000?
chipset: Cologne HFC-S PCI A



HP GPIB controller card
ISA GPIB controller card from HP for IEEE488 devices
Year of manufacture: 1992
chipset: TMS9914
82335-60001 Rev A
FCC-ID: B9482335

HP GPIB controller card / back
PCI GPIB controller card from HP for IEEE488 devices
Year of manufacture: 2000
82350-66501 Rev B

Hameg HO-80 GPIB controller card
Year of manufacture:  1991
8-bit ISA
chipset: NEC D7210C

Hameg HO80-2 GPIB controller card
Year of manufacture: 1991
chipset: NEC D7210C
8-bit ISA
made by Ines GmbH Cologne

National Instruments GPIB-PCI controller
Year of manufacture: 1999



Video 1000 S/W
ISA framegrabber card, luminance only.

Hauppauge WinTV
Type: 44804 Rev C129
Year of manufacture: 2001
Chip: Conexant BT878
Composite video and antenna
other WinTV card

Terratec TValue TV card
Year of manufacture: 1999
Chip: Conexant BT878
Composite video and antenna

3dfx VoodooTV FM
Remote control
Manual
Year of manufacture: 2000
Chip: Conexant BT878
composite, s-video, antenna

Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-CA
Year of manufacture: 2001
DVB-C card with hardware mpeg2 decoder.
optional Common Interface

Typhoon VP-1030C / back
Year of manufacture: 2003
DVB-S card with Tuner and Common Interface slot on the same board.
runs also with Twinhan 1030 driver.
has a rather bad signal sensitivity.

Iomega BUZ video capture card
Year of manufacture: 1997
photo without Breakout Box with connectors
the card has an independent SCSI controller.
Details here.

Hauppauge Colossus / back
Year of manufacture:  2010
PCIe 1x, HDMI and analog video capture card
Chipset: Analog Devices ADV7441S, ViXS XCode-3111
features H.264 hardware encoder up to 1920x1080 at 30 Hz interlaced, max. 28 MBit/s
can not handle progressive PAL signals that f.e. old game consoles use.



Two port Game Adapter Card
Year of manufacture: 1995
ISA

NAVTEL DATATEST II / box / back
battery backed test device for serial RS232 connections
serial: 1160

Competition Pro USB Joystick
Remake of a traditional joystick design for PC, digital joystick, four buttons

Microsoft Natural Keyboard / bottom side
Year of manufacture: 1996
- german layout
This keyboard introduced the so called Windows keys and the Application key that are placed between Control and Alt.
The placement of the keys is optimized for more natural typing.

Clock Card
Replacement card to gain year 2000 compatibility?

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