First post, by BetaC
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- Oldbie
I am making this thread for one simple purpose: I want to use components I already have in a build that really only requires adding a motherboard. I have a bunch of components that I have collected at random shops since I started really getting in to Retro stuff, and I am wanting to give some of them a more appropriate system to be in, and others a system to be in in the first place. On hand, I already have what's listed below as components that will definitely fit together:
- Four 72 PIN RAM SIMMs, most likely totaling 32MB
- Both a Pentium 100 and a Pentium MMX 166, and access to a 266 for cheap
- Both an AWE64 and a YAMAHA OPL 3 Card
- A minor collection of early 3D PCI cards, and a rather nice Matrox Millenium for 2D
- A storage solution that is already set up and known to be working.
The only real issue I am having is figuring out what Motherboard I should be using for this. I am hoping to be able to find an ATX board that will work, but the majority of those on Ebay seem to either be Super Socket 7, or way too expensive for what they are. I am not opposed to SS7, mind you, I'm just hoping to keep things mostly before my Slot 1 Machine. The requirement for ATX is also not necessarily the biggest, either, if I would somehow be able to find a way to mount a Baby-AT board inside a modern case.