cyclone3d wrote:

Why do you "need" onboard LAN?

What happens if the onboard LAN is flakey, buggy, or bad? Then you have to use an add-on NIC anyway.

And if you are planning on using it for DOS games, you really don't want onboard sound either except for a few select ones and that is going to make your search even more impossible.

+1 especially with how often it seemed like the onboard NIC died on old motherboards, or they had stupid buggy drivers.

I guess he wants onboard LAN & sound because of the I/O plate he wants to use that has holes for them.

Decent onboard sound isn't too hard to find combined with his other requirements - but onboard LAN is pretty rare in So370-era, and boards with onboard LAN will tend to be very late ones without ISA. Also, onboard LAN is a server feature so unlikely to be combined with decent onboard audio. Even looking through the PC Chips lottery (not normally somewhere you go to find a decent board...), despite having a lot of So370 board with LAN, every single one of the boards with LAN also had integrated video so no AGP slot.

One tip to widen your search field: So370 CPUs can be installed in Slot 1 boards with a slocket adapter. If you can find a Slot 1 board with the desired audio & LAN, that may be an option.

I'm going to use a awe 64 in the isa slot anyway and I don't really have a good reson for the onboard lan I just prefer having lan onboard then having a pci card

Ok if I was to not get onboard lan what is a good board with the other requirements that supports Tualatin that's not crazy rare or expensive

stamasd wrote:

Abit VH6T (Apollo Pro 133T, supports Tualatin)

A very good and convenient board.
I recently acquired one and it's so easy to over- or underclock my Tualatin from 700MHz to 1.6GHz directly within the BIOS.

Mine had a lot of leaking caps, though.
I would NOT try to use one without recapping it first.

schmatzler wrote:

A very good and convenient board. I recently acquired one and it's so easy to over- or underclock my Tualatin from 700MHz to 1.6 […]
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stamasd wrote:

Abit VH6T (Apollo Pro 133T, supports Tualatin)

A very good and convenient board.
I recently acquired one and it's so easy to over- or underclock my Tualatin from 700MHz to 1.6GHz directly within the BIOS.

Mine had a lot of leaking caps, though.
I would NOT try to use one without recapping it first.

I really want one of the abit motherboards as I have heard a lot of good things about them but I cant seem to find one for sale at the moment without importing it 😒