Hi all,

in 2016 I checked all my all stuff and was able to recover some rigs. But when I was setting up the "ultimate" Pentium MMX 233 in a Super socket 7 motherboard I burnt the motherboard (it had a K6-2 400),the P233 MXX and a Sound Blaster 16 ISA. The frustration made me pack everything back to the boxroom, and I have to say I got rid of two cases (an unforgivable error).

Now having some many hours at home and inspired by Philscomputer I decided to check again what I have. This is the list:

CRT: LG 701S 17"

Working PCs
- 486 DX2 66Mhz, AZZA Motherboard, 24Mb with VL-Bus cards , Sound Blaster Pro 1.0. Fully working with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1. Nothing else to do here.
- Pentium 166 MX 48MB, Amptron PM-xxxxx: NVIDIA Riva 128, Yamaha Audician 32 Plus (I had this card but realize it was good thanks to Philscomputer).
- Pentium 120, Octek RHINO 6VX. project in process. The power supply has just burnt, I have an old ATX waiting for the adapter. I will use a S3 Virge DX and an ALS120 for Sound
- Athlon XP: again this projects was done inspired by Philcomputers. I had an Athlon XP 2000+ back in the days. It has two HDD, 80Gb for Windows 98SE and 250Gb for Windows XP. GPU is a FX5200, for Sound I have chosen the Sound Blaster 5.1 Live. I have an Audigy 2 ZS but I wanted a pure DOS experience. This is the rig I will really use.

Other components:
I though that my P2 and P3 motherboards were dead but I was wrong, I have:
- Pentium II 333Mhz , QDI Legend V
- Pentium III 500Mhz, GA 6BXE
I don't have a lot of RAM for these two, many modules are faulty but I have managed to save 128Mb for each one.

I need to decide what to do with these two, I only have one additional available ATX case. I think that I will go for the Pentium 3 500 with a Geforce 2 MX200 64MB and a Sound Blaster 128 PCI (is it any good for DOS?), unless I find a lost ISA sound card.

The rest of the parts that I have tested are:
P4 3,2Ghz GA-8S648FXM2 with 512Mb. I have though about using this one instead of Athlon XP. I prefer the Athlon because it's like the computer that I had and is indeed installed in the ATX case that I used at the beginning of 2000s.
Graphic Cards:
- PCI: S3 Trio 64 2Mb, S3 TRIO 64V+ 1Mb.
- AGP: Intel 740, S3 TRIO 3D. ATI RAGE PRO TURBO AGP, Riva TNT2 m64 32MB.
HDDs: many are faulty, I'm waiting for two Compact Flash adaptors and will buy a SATA to PATA to use some spare SATA disks.

Would you set up an Slot 1 rig?, if so, the P2 or the P3. Does anybody considered that going for the P4 would be better than sticking to my old Ahtlon XP?

Great to be back at the forum.