That is a very good looking motherboard. 😀

how low can the voltage be regulated ? 2,1 2,0 Volt ?

dr.zeissler wrote:

how low can the voltage be regulated ? 2,1 2,0 Volt ?

2.0V is the lowest.

Skyscraper wrote:

That is a very good looking motherboard. 😀

Its got a good layout and best of all... 4 freakin' ISA slots. I actually might get a Voodoo 2 in there for Glide DOS games. I had fun back in the day playing Screamer Rally.

Very nice project!

I have that case as well 😀 It's my capture PC in my computer lab.

I think i have that same corsair power supply...if im not mistaken it does not have the -5v rail...is the lack of -5v rail going to affect your build?

philscomputerlab wrote:

Very nice project!

I have that case as well 😀 It's my capture PC in my computer lab.

Thanks Phil. No doubt we're 2 Socket 7 snobs here on Vogons. 😀

retrofanatic wrote:

I think i have that same corsair power supply...if im not mistaken it does not have the -5v rail...is the lack of -5v rail going to affect your build?

Not at all. The Pro Audio Spectrum Plus 650-0014 does not need the -5V rail. I'm not sure if the original 8bit Pro Audio Spectrum does need it, but if one day i find one i won't let negative 5 volts get in my way. I might ask Fabian (Amoretro) if it does. He's one of the few among us who owns one of those beauties.

There isn't any other card that i plan to use that will need -5V. If i had a LAPC-I i'd rather trade that for another CM-32L.

carlostex wrote:

I like zip drives their a good way to move data from one place to another. Much more reliable that floppy drives.

For a while, I thought I was the only person who thinks this as well 😎

Great build and an inspiration 😀

carlostex wrote:

retrofanatic wrote:

I think i have that same corsair power supply...if im not mistaken it does not have the -5v rail...is the lack of -5v rail going to affect your build?

I might ask Fabian (Amoretro) if it does. He's one of the few among us who owns one of those

Actually I own an original PAS 8 bit, in the original box but I don't know how to check if it needs the -5v rail. If you need me to check, let me know what to look for and I'll let you know.

Great build btw.

Nice build project. I bought a new Gigabyte case recently for a DOS system and I also noticed it doesn't have a reset button - it seems it's a feature that's disappearing from modern cases.

What is that "CD Be Quiet" stuff? I've just put a modern-ish IDE DVD writer in my DOS system and noticed it can be really noisy for CD-Rom games. How does this work?

Mmm...yeah, I'm quite a fan of round IDE and Floppy cables.

retrofanatic wrote:

Actually I own an original PAS 8 bit, in the original box but I don't know how to check if it needs the -5v rail. If you need me to check, let me know what to look for and I'll let you know.
Great build btw.

Wow i wish i had one too, if you can check it i would appreciate it. If you take a picture of the back of the card and post it here i could see it.

MMaximus wrote:

Nice build project. I bought a new Gigabyte case recently for a DOS system and I also noticed it doesn't have a reset button - it seems it's a feature that's disappearing from modern cases.

What is that "CD Be Quiet" stuff? I've just put a modern-ish IDE DVD writer in my DOS system and noticed it can be really noisy for CD-Rom games. How does this work?

CD Be Quiet is a DOS Tool that sends an ATA command to the drive to limit its spindle speed.

http://cdbq.dosforum.de/

zstandig wrote:

Mmm...yeah, I'm quite a fan of round IDE and Floppy cables.

Unfortunately i will have to use a ribbon floppy cable as i'm using a 5.25inch drive.

great! you are back on the track my friend! 😁

keropi wrote:

great! you are back on the track my friend! 😁

Well you did prophesized that i would eventually build one. And you were right. I had to do it. So thank you Keropi!!! 😎

Nice Build! The 4 soundcard combo is very cool. Just wondering what is the normal General Midi device? The OPL4? Quite rare to see the OPL4 actually mounted together with the OPL3-SAX chip.

About the QDI Titanium IIB. Being an i430TX in ATX format, I was considering to buy one earlier this year. IIRC 'Anonymous Coward' wrote somewhere in Vogons that he did not like this particular IIB jumperfree BIOS much; So I let it go... Fiddling with CPU/FSB/Voltage jumpers is the thing for me anyways. Of course for most users this should not matter. 😀

gerwin wrote:

Nice Build! The 4 soundcard combo is very cool. Just wondering what is the normal General Midi device? The OPL4? Quite rare to see the OPL4 actually mounted together with the OPL3-SAX chip.

About the QDI Titanium IIB. Being an i430TX in ATX format, I was considering to buy one earlier this year. IIRC 'Anonymous Coward' wrote somewhere in Vogons that he did not like this particular IIB jumperfree BIOS much; So I let it go... Fiddling with CPU/FSB/Voltage jumpers is the thing for me anyways. Of course for most users this should not matter. 😀

I haven't got a chance to test the Yamaha card yet as the system is not ready and there are still parts to arrive. I'm sure the YMF-704C won't be impressing much with its GM capabilities, specially because it has a very limited amount of memory. I will try to find a Yamaha MU-10 later maybe.
What's funny about this card is that it is actually a dual OPL3 card. Both the YMF-704C and the YMF-719S contain integrated genuine OPL3's.

http://www.datasheetlib.com/datasheet/735298/ … age=6#datasheet

Actually i want to stack up on these boards. I love my QDI Titanium IB+ but that's on an AT format. I actually like the jumperless settings, i find it easier to deal with, specially because this will be a slow/fast DOS build. No board is perfect but i like these. BTW, if you come across a QDI Titanium IIB let me know cause i will need a spare at least.

heh, I knew the bug will bite you again 😉
good thinking on having spares, I too have a couple of my favorite ss7 mobo: the HOT-591p . One thing I like is that you can create a duplicate setup in another place and just clone the HDD 😀

Looks great & not too dissimilar to my tx/k6-3+ machine. Any plans for a Voodoo1 in there?

I have been running the K6-3+ at 75*6= 450 for a while now and it's rock solid, another thing to consider.

bjt wrote:

Looks great & not too dissimilar to my tx/k6-3+ machine. Any plans for a Voodoo1 in there?

I have been running the K6-3+ at 75*6= 450 for a while now and it's rock solid, another thing to consider.

Actually i was planning for a Voodoo 2, to play some games i used to play in my late DOS years like Screamer Rally and Grand Theft Auto 1.

I'm not surprised that you can run it at 75*6 rock solid, TX chipset is very good. I'm was actually wondering if 83*6 would be too much because of PCI bus. I don't know if the board will do a 2 divider on the PCI bus or a 3. If divided by 3 it will lose a bit od PCI bandwith and if by 2, 41,5MHz might be too much for the PCI cards to handle.

Either way system will only run that fast when i need it too. I'm actually wondering how slow can i get it to work, 50*2 plus all caches disabled. Probably around a 386DX-25 which would be awesome.