First post, by DeathRabbit679
So I think over time I've come to realize that I lucked the hell out when I found my uncle's old PC in my grandfather's basement last year. It was a desktop style Gateway p5-75 on the outside but inside it had an abit ab-tx5 mainboard with a pentium 166mmx and 96 megs of sdram. I threw an s3 virge, voodoo1 and ymf719 card in there and it's quickly become my favorite machine.
The ab-tx5 seems to be a really neat flexible baby AT that can take simms or dimms, an AT or ATX PSU (which I didn't know was a thing), and has a soft menu for overclocking and an all around pleasant to use BIOS. It is however approaching 30 yrs old, and I'm starting to get worried so I looked for a replacement and this exact board seems to be unobtainium. I'd like to have another roughly equivalent board on hand so I can cram all the components I've got into a new one in case of emergency.
So I'm curious, does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement board to try and score in case this one dies, be it another abit or really any other brand? For all I know I'm wrong and this board is crap compared to others, I was a little kid playing duke3d on whatever system he could when socket 7 was new, didn't really start learning about building machines until 2001, so I'm learning all this details stuff about older 90s stuff as I go. But the rarity of it makes me think it probably is a gem, atx only version is for sale on ebay for like 400 friggin bux. Anyways, thanks for reading this somewhat rambling post.
