Swapped my unneeded Gigabyte GA-486VS to a friend for this beauty (the motherboard) :
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A mighty ASUS P299 Rev. 1.12! (With a P3/550E.)
I think this is going to take over all my Slot-1 duties from now on. It has 4 PCI + 3 ISA slots like my P3V133, a lovely full-ATX layout in a small footprint like my P2L97-S, and of course the BX chipset like my Dell XPS T550. Plus, it has a wildly tweakable FSB (including a setting for 133 with 33MHz PCI!), SB-Link, and at least Coppermine support. (It'd be nice if it could run my 1GHz Tualeron, but not sure on that... I don't have a compatible slocket anyway.)
It doesn't have SCSI (which I'm not using on the P2L97-S anyway) and for some reason the solder pads for the 3rd DIMM slot are empty, but I can do without those. What a nice board all the same!
Said friend also fixed my Akai GXC-310D, which now sounds as good as it looks, i.e. legit gorgeous in a very mid-1970s sort of way. It plays buttery smooth, the big chunky piano key controls feel like operating a rocket launch, and those dancey VU meters & running lights are an absolute joy. I can't believe I tried to sell this thing before I had it working.
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