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First post, by Bancho

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Hi All.

I'd like to share with you a build that feels like it has taken forever to get to a state I feel happy with and I hope you like it.

I bought this board with an idea in mind to make a small Super Socket 7 build. Its a Chaintech 5RSA2 which is based on a Rev.E Aladdin V chipset. It is hosting a AMD K6 III+ set to 550mhz and 128mb PC100 CL2 ram.

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Graphics are taken care of by a Innovision 16mb Mighty Banshee Card. I feel this is a good match for the CPU

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On the sound front I have installed a Awe64 Gold With a Simmcon & 32mb stick, and my trusty Sonata 3D OPL3/4 Card

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For Optical duties I managed to pick up a Panasonic SQ-TC520N 5 Disc Multi Changer which was BNIB! Its a cool looking drive. The Software allows for individual drive letters or pooled under one letter.

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And it is all housed in this really small Cheiftec MATX Case. It was BNIB for £15 and is exactly what i was looking for! As you can see it is not very deep at all next to a Microsoft Natural Keyboard!

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I need to do some cable management and i want to make a switch to change the FSB but all in all i'm really happy with how it turned out! 🤣

Reply 1 of 5, by MMaximus

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Nice looking build! Somehow I thought the M-ATX form factor was more recent than this and I didn't know SS7 systems came in this format.
That CD changer looks really cool. I saw them listed on ebay a few months ago and almost pulled the trigger on one but somehow didn't. Now I wish I had 😀

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Reply 3 of 5, by Bancho

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MMaximus wrote:

Nice looking build! Somehow I thought the M-ATX form factor was more recent than this and I didn't know SS7 systems came in this format.
That CD changer looks really cool. I saw them listed on ebay a few months ago and almost pulled the trigger on one but somehow didn't. Now I wish I had 😀

I don't know of many M-ATX SS7 motherboards. I didn't know this existed till i spotted it. It has an ESS-Solo1 Sound chip on board but it is really noisy from my testing. I wish i could get to the bottom of the noise as I could then use the 2nd ISA slot for something a bit more exotic then the Yamaha card currently populated.

Reply 4 of 5, by Tetrium

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Many s7/ss7 boards with SiS chipset were ­µATX, often these were OEM boards.
But s7/ss7 in ATX format were always much less common then the AT ones.

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Reply 5 of 5, by fitzpatr

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Very nice build! The Banshee doesn't get much love compared to the Voodoo2 and 3. The CD Changer is awesome, as well!

I have a VIA MVP3-based uATX board made by LEGEND-QDI. I haven't had the chance to use it much, as I needed all of the slots I could find for my SS7 build.

MT-32 Old, CM-32L, CM-500, SC-55mkII, SC-88Pro, SC-D70, FB-01, MU2000EX
K6-III+/450/GA-5AX/G400 Max/Voodoo2 SLI/CT1750/MPU-401AT/Audigy 2ZS
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