First post, by Saotome Ranma
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Thinking of build up an Athlon based retro gaming rig with VIA chipset for mainly 2 reasons:
1. High specs and powerful replacement of K6-2/3 with both mmx and 3dnow support
2. ISA slot available for retro sound cards and later 90s dos game
But there are 2 problems confused me quite much, so I'm coming here for some help and idea:
1. Since Athlon is much more powerful with much higher frequency, and the low frequency ones (such as 600 - 800 MHz) are quite rare in my region, I'm thinking of underclocking and 1G - 1.4G Athlon into 600 - 700 MHz to fit those games in K6-2/3 era, so is underclocking (especially the multiplier change) possible for the first generation of Athlon?
2. I'm thinking of using an Abit KT7 Raid motherboard with an ISA slot available. According to its specification, a PCI-ISA bridge is integrated into its VIA 686a south bridge, so is 686a features all the things that a native ISA requires for native ISA sound cards?
Thanks for ur help
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