First post, by Autumn Able
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I have an old HP Pavilion xt953 that uses an ASUS CUW-AM (Tortuga) MicroATX motherboard and a 1Ghz Coppermine Pentium III. The integrated hardware in it is total garbage though as it only has the Intel integrated graphics and a Crystal CS4299 software audio codec with no DOS support whatsoever. What's even worse is that there is no SB-Link header to be found on it, so even if I tried to use a better soundcard (YMF744) for DOS I would run into problems. It also lack an AGP slot, but that's not that big a deal as I have an FX5500 PCI that should cover most things decently well in it. Anyways, what motherboards out there are similar enough for me to replace it with that have either an SB-Link header, or already have a YMF744 (or YMF724) chip onboard so I don't have to worry about upgrading? Would be even better if it had something like Tualatin support, but I'm pushing my luck already.