First post, by fyy
Hi, first post
Mau1wurf1977, you should build this as a retro machine! If you get the 1.06 version of the Asus P2B-DS you can go as low as a Pentium II 233 (which you can underclock, this board goes as low as 2 x 50 mhz according to the manual's settings) and you can go all the way up to a dual CPU 1 ghz+. With some mods and slockets people have even got it to run dual Tualatin PIII-S 1.4ghz. It also supports ram as low as 8MB all the way up to 1GB!
Just think, you could throw in older unlocked P2 (like the SL2S7) and underclock it down to 133mhz, disable the cache, add 8 mb of ram and have a solid DOS machine. And when you decide to you could throw in some high end dual Pentium 3 CPU's, toss in an beefy AGP card, 512MB - 1GB ram and see how far into the modern you could go, all on a single board!
It's got all the goodies since it's using the 440BX chipset, ISA, PCI, AGP, USB etc etc and all the potential! What do you think?
P2B (ATX)
P2B-B (Baby AT)
P2B-F (ATX, 5 PCI slots)
P2B-L (ATX, onboard LAN)
P2B-S (ATX, onboard SCSI)
P2B-LS (ATX, onboard LAN, SCSI)
P2B-N (NLX, onboard Audio and LAN)
P2B-VM (microATX, optional onboard Audio)
P2B-D (ATX, support Dual processor)
P2B-DS (ATX, onboard SCSI, Dual processor)
P2B-D2 (ATX, support Dual processor, I2O and onboard SCSI, VGA, LAN)
I haven't really read much into the P2B-D and P2B-D2 but they seem interesting also.
Mau1wurf1977, if you're interested, check out: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/p2b_p … pgrade_faq.html