First post, by Great Hierophant
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The Soyo SY-P4I 845PE ISA, is an industrial motherboard which contains three ISA slots and supports a Pentium socket 423 processor up to 3.06GHz. It also supports 2GB of DDR333 RAM. As this board has a limited market, it isn't cheap, but once you have it, what will you do with it? If you want an ultimate Windows XP box, don't bother. If you want an Ultimate Windows 9x box, there are much cheaper and better choices out there.
So what would you use those ISA slots for? If you had an ISA midi card like the LAPC-I or SCC-1, those slots would come in handy. However, you can do just as well to sell the cards and buy their standalone versions. What about that fan favorite, the Gravis Ultrasound? I think that most of those demos that the Ultrasound excelled at probably wouldn't run at even 1GHz, nevermind 3GHz. In Windows, the Ultrasound is just another midi device. Same goes for virtually any other card, a midi device and/or a DAC.
What about some real FM Synthesis or some DOS Gaming? A lot of DOS games will simply not run correctly or well at 1GHz. At those speeds, it seems to me to be too much of a hassle to get DOS games working.