an atx socket 3 would've been awesome

Personally, for me it was a Pentium 2 system. The board was from ASUS and the chipset was Intel. It was one of these chipsets before BX440 that could only do 66 MHz.

Was very happy with that system, was a PII 300 which cost quite a bit back in the day and I remember playing a lot with Emulators for Arcade games (not MAME) such as Strider or Rtype 2.

Was all under pure DOS and ran it perfectly.

It was probably an Intel board

Funny, I've been wondering almost the opposite lately: what were the latest AT format boards made? On account of having a nice AT case but being bored with the 386 in it and its 5x86 predecessor.

Tetrium, we've discussed this a week or two ago. It was Intel's 430VX and 430HX boards. I have the 430HX ATX board 😉

ratfink wrote:

Funny, I've been wondering almost the opposite lately: what were the latest AT format boards made? On account of having a nice AT case but being bored with the 386 in it and its 5x86 predecessor.

The newest "standard" AT boards I've seen are Super Socket 7's (obviously 😜), a couple Slot 1 BX boards and at least 1 s370 Celeron PPGA board.
I do remember there being an industrial board with P4?

I'll go have a look if I can find anything about it...

Edit: Theres a thread about the fastest AT board on VC
Link: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showt … 7d7c069a879f07f
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Edit2: Found one of those AT boards: http://www.corvalent.com/02b_ind_boards/mb_855gme_at.shtml

And cheers for the many replies in such short notice!

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/498- … ail-badaxe.html - I was almost right. The very first was Intel Thor - 430FX chipset

P.S. a nice photo of it: http://www.thg.ru/mainboard/intel_motherboard … nshots_6_1.html

Antinomy wrote:

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/498- … ail-badaxe.html - I was almost right. The very first was Intel Thor - 430FX chipset

P.S. a nice photo of it: http://www.thg.ru/mainboard/intel_motherboard … nshots_6_1.html

Thanks!

Antinomy wrote:

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/498- … ail-badaxe.html - I was almost right. The very first was Intel Thor - 430FX chipset

P.S. a nice photo of it: http://www.thg.ru/mainboard/intel_motherboard … nshots_6_1.html

Looks very similar to the old TC430HX (from early-mid '96) that I used to have (on mine though, those "placeholder" chip areas you see were filled by an S3 ViRGE-DX graphics controller with 2 MB of RAM), and also among the first to have USB ports.

My ASUS P2B-B has a dual AT/ATX connector, so that must be right around the transition. As posted earlier, the HX and VX chipsets would be even earlier. I guess that makes it the Pentium being the earliest, unless somebody can scrounge up a late model 486 board. It would probably have PCI too though, and PCI on a 486 was bad news.

valnar wrote:

... and PCI on a 486 was bad news.

Please can you elaborate on this?

retro games 100 wrote:

valnar wrote:

... and PCI on a 486 was bad news.

Please can you elaborate on this?

I wish I could but I haven't used a 486 since....well, the 486 days. I only remember it was a half-ass attempt and had some compatibility issues. PCI really earned its place on the Pentium boards.

I think RG100 would disagree with that 🤣

His tests are the reason why 486 UMC chipset boards sell for so much 🤣

Yeah PCI video doesn't suck for me either. s3 Trios fly.

See my Intel mobo thread. 😁
Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Almost all of my 486 boards are either UMC or SiS. UMC seems better then SiS but the SiS boards aren't that bad.
Even if their performance is less then the UMC, it's still a 486 non the less 😉

swaaye wrote:

See my Intel mobo thread. 😁
Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Cheers! 😁
I'd forgotten about that 😉

Does anyone know which were the first dual CPU ATX boards? But fully ATX compatible - I bought a Dual Pentium Gigabyte GA586DX and it comes in ATX form factor but requires AT PSU. 2 PS/2 ports would also be nice (unlike the Tyan S1668, which accepts only a PS/2 keyboard).

I own a Pentium 200 MMX mobo that is ATX. It is dead now, but it was the earliest I've seen.

laxdragon wrote:

I own a Pentium 200 MMX mobo that is ATX. It is dead now, but it was the earliest I've seen.

how did it die?