Got a little work done over the weekend. Still waiting on a power supply to get here to get serious with it. After getting the Thermaltake V1 CPU cooler mounted I'm having second thoughts. It's kind of an eye sore to me. Not going to be overclocking so thinking about using a stock style orb cooler …

Anybody know anything about the SupremeFX II sound card that came with the board? Would some type of sound blaster be better? These addon cards are not based on Creative DSP chips. That's Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio clone, which is just a glorified codec, which just happens to support software …

Welcome, and nice set of parts there. I have a Core 2 Quad running Windows XP, and I like it. It is not "period correct" but it works very well. IMO the actual computing experience is superior to the hardware that was available when Windows XP was current (i.e. the Core 2 is faster, has some …

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-03-07, 01:19: That's a great setup. Also love the Centurion 5 case. What projector are you using? Thank you. The projector I'm not even sure, a Sharp i think that just does720P, nothing special. It and an old Sony surround sound system are adequate for "garage theater" !

So here is mine, out in my corner of the garage. Kind of a multi-purpose thing. Plenty of room to spread everything out, watch a movie and put together a retro pc!

Will you dual boot with 64bit Vista/Win7? I wouldn't recommend 64bit XP and 4 CPU cores and 8GB RAM is wasted on XP-32. The GTX650 is a very good graphics card for XP era games. It has roughly equal performance to the late XP era (before mainstream support ended) enthusiast graphics cards, like the …

It is too hot for win98 :) The GTX560 is considered good for XP, not sure what the 650 will be like although it might require later drivers. X-Fi or Asus XONAR are best sound cards for XP. 500W+ PSU should be fine, I would probably go 600 to be sure. You don't need the 8gb ram either - 4gb is fine …

Hello everyone. I've been messing with computers for a while. My first was a Commodore 64 that I played way to much Elite on and went to it's demise, I know now, due to a failed power supply and I'm sure you know the rest. After a lot of years of no computing I ended up with a couple of IBM 5150s …

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your help!

Would anyone be able to provide a link to the manual for this motherboard? Thank you for your time.