First post, by pjladyfox
Been looking for a new retro PC gaming project and, much to my surprise, came across some Socket 478 ISA motherboards. Here is what I found:
Itox G4E620 P4 845E Socket 478 ATX Motherboard
http://www.itox.com/pages/products/mothers/re … l/g4e620-bn.php
ITOX G4V620-B-G Intel 845GV Socket 478 ATX Motherboard
http://www.itox.com/pages/products/mothers/re … /g4v620-b-g.php
Kontron MBATX-845GV-VEA1 Intel 845E Socket 478
http://us.kontron.com/products/boards+and+mez … x845gvvea1.html
INTEL D845GECL SIEMENS D1654 P4 ISA
http://www.legendmicro.com/Store/6225_INTEL-D … DR-SIEMENS.lmsp
EPOX IP-4GVI20 845GV P4 SOCKET 478 VGA AGP 4 PCI 3 ISA
http://www.epox.com/product.asp?id=IP-4GVI20
Corvalent Gator ATX-G Socket mPGA478 motherboard
http://www.corvalent.com/02b_ind_boards/mb_84 … egv_atx_g.shtml
Now, as we are all aware 98SE suffers from an issue that prevents it from running well, if at all, on processors faster than 2.1 GHz:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312108
My idea is to try and track down one of these motherboards and, using either a P4 2.0GHz or Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz CPU, try and get one of these working with my current collection of ISA sound cards, a GeForce video card (not sure what to use yet), and do a triple boot DOS 6.22/98se/XP SP2 system. Now, granted, there will be some speed issues that will require MOSLO but the idea really is to use my Slot 1 system for those and use this one for newer titles that do not really require it. That, and really this is just a technical challenge to see just how fast an ISA-based sound card system I can build. 😁
Anyone actually attempt to try this or even have a working system similar to this?