Hmm. I am of two minds about this build... it's both very, very impressive, in its devotion and skill, but also somewhat concerning when it comes to the immense cost, as well as the Bios-flashing needed to "mode-change" it! 0_o May I ask, how did you obtain these industrial boards? And how much do …

I am incapable of sitting still, and I *much* desire to increase the supported software time frames for my build... my head is swimming with dreams of my Sound Blaster 16, Xeon X5470 and Nvidia Geforce 1070 Ti co-existing in the same build. I have done more research into the post-865-chipset …

How do you deal with games that run too fast? I have a similar computer, albeit much more limited (P4@3GHz, 865 chipset) and so far I've been using Throttle and halving the FSB for games like Dragon Lore or Azrael's Tear, but even though that makes the games run at a speed that looks proper, they * …

I was born in '85, but my first real exposure to computers was around '91 or '92... my family was not able to afford the current computers at the time (and felt there was no need for one in the house) so in '93 (at the age of 8 ) I took it upon myself to restore one with thrift store parts. When I …

Here's another idea : LINK MIDI quality on LPT port :D Sweet! Looks like the MIDI/FM over LPT is a popular solution - not sure how I missed this, I will have to buy this (or the OPL3LPT) and test it out. It looks like it's compatibility isn't perfect though - hopefully the driver matures enough to …

AlphaPapa wrote: This is awesome... Yeah I don't have any questions or anything to contribute.. This is awesome. I'm glad to hear you like it! 😊

Nice project. Lots of great work. 8) As usual, can't avoid some useless crap which people seem attracted to (Win98 "service pack" junk, dual and triple-booting DOS with DOS with DOS, forgetting that Win98 has a perfect DOS in itself, etc.). Although maybe on such a pretentious setup, which like all …

Personally, I would drop SB16, and do OPL3LPT and PCI based SB16 emulation. OPL3LPT looks *very* cool - I didn't know that existed! :D If the new motherboard doesn't work properly with ISA DMA then I can probably still use my SB16 for synth, and then I can use the OPL3LPT for music - I prefer to …

I am incapable of sitting still, and I *much* desire to increase the supported software time frames for my build... my head is swimming with dreams of my Sound Blaster 16, Xeon X5470 and Nvidia Geforce 1070 Ti co-existing in the same build. I have done more research into the post-865-chipset …

I thought the ISA on those industrial motherboards doesn't work properly? Anyone confirmed this? I think there are non-industrial SocketA mobos that have ISA slots that work normally, I have one in fact (but it's a uATX without AGP that limits it usefulness). I don't know what the consensus here is …

Retro Pentium 4 Rig - 27-year-span (PC) software supported *without* use of emulation About Me/About My Rig: First-time poster, long-time lurker. Known by the same name within other forums online. This was a 6-month project with LOTS of trial and error, and LOTS of hardware/software testing to find …