First post, by zapbuzz
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I'd like to show off my refurbished apollo Motherboard ABIT VP6.
All capacitors replaced. This sucker cost mega.
I've always wanted one because the BIOS data can be dismantled and rebuilt easily and no onboard scrap audio or outdated LAN.
ABit VP6 DUAL Pentium 3 Motherboard + 2x Intel P3 800EB CPU + 2GB PC-133 ECC RAM (RAM not shown) 1000 watt PSU.
I have a gigabit LAN card not shown in picture and 8 channel audio .
Although it has USB1 i use ps2 mouse and keyboard to free up irq's and have disabled printer and com ports.
Yes I'm adding USB2 pci it has 4 on the rear and one internaland its a VIA Chip controller.
Also I have a 8 port ATA133 pci RAID card and am looking to populate 4 x 2 motherboard - ATA100 and 8 x 2 RAID - ATA133
ati 128mb AGP 4X - 8X GPU (4X mode typically for this model)
I have researched and found these and simular do not last long if cpu's over 1 ghz are used so I am sticking with above mentioned.
There is an wise old saying "The brighter the light; the quicker it will burn out"
Got heaps of potentual here even with windows 10 x86.
The reason for this little project of mine is to have legacy support of as many operating systems and have some power to keep up with
user demand. Also that meltdown and spectre problem doesn't have much influence here.