VOGONS


First post, by Batyra

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Hi,
I'm starting my new build project and I'm looging for a very specific motherboard. Unfortunately I have not foud yet one, that meets my requirements.

- ISA slot... even one
- Slot 1
- Rambus

And the most importatn... GREEN PCB! it has to be green...

Maybe some of you guys will be able to advise me what to look for...

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Reply 1 of 8, by nforce4max

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I am doubtful that you are going to find a board with an ISA slot but there are plenty of green ones however I would go for an 840 based board and if 9X/Dos you can use a terminator in the second slot.

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Reply 2 of 8, by dionb

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The HP OEM versions of Asus i820 boards were green, in particular the P3C-D. AOpen also had a green AX6C board...

..but neither had ISA.

The only ISA i820 board I recall seeing IRL is the Asus P3C2000, but that's not green and as it has an MTH, it's not Rambus either - plus it was recalled as with all other MTH boards, so is rare as hell (and slow and unstable even if you find it).

I've seen pics of an Asus P3C-L with ISA and Rambus, but brown... and then there's the Rioworks PD82-A dual Slot 1 which is black and may or may not have gone into production.

Good luck for this combo 😮

Reply 3 of 8, by Batyra

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That it is why I want it… it's not a common thing, otherwize build wouldnt be so interesting.

There were i820 for slingle slot with rambus and i840 for dual slot? Where there other chipsets?

It gotta be green and with at least one isa. Plese help guys.

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Reply 4 of 8, by dionb

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Batyra wrote:

That it is why I want it… it's not a common thing, otherwize build wouldnt be so interesting.

There were i820 for slingle slot with rambus and i840 for dual slot? Where there other chipsets?

No other Slot 1 Rambus chipsets. Intel tried to shove Rambus down the industry's throat, the rest of the industry ignored them and went for DDR-SDRAM instead. SiS did eventually make a P4 chipset with Rambus support, but no P3 stuff.

Note that i820 was also dual CPU capable, in fact you seem to see the Asus P3C-D more than any other RDRAM board. The difference between i820 and i840 was the memory - i840 had dual channel Rambus, i820 just single channel.

It gotta be green and with at least one isa. Plese help guys.

I wish you luck, but ISA and RDRAM is already really challenging to the point of almost non-existence. Trouble is that Intel specifically went legacy-free with their Rambus chipsets, and due to awful pricing, bad reviews and well-publicized stability issues, basically only OEMs (who played along with Intel's strategy) bought the things. The kind of regular consumer who would want ISA wouldn't touch the stuff with a barge pole... also the uptake in industrial automation (the other big ISA user) was essentially zero because they ran hot and weren't believed to be reliably stable.

I've been doing some trawling. There are Asus P3C-2000 boards (with i820 and ISA, but no RDRAM due to MTH and brown) to be had on eBay, but nothing else I can find with any i820/i840 chipset and ISA.

Reply 5 of 8, by alvaro84

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HP KC19+. This is an OEM FIC board and green. Has ISA too. RAM counting at POST is slow, worlks fine otherwisem both under DOS and Win98.

Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts

Reply 6 of 8, by Batyra

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A friend of mine sent me this. But no further info or photos… But I know now that something like I'm looking for exists.
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/ah/d … /ti821.jpg.html

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@alvaro84 - dude!!! shank you so much!!!! This is what I was looking for!!! and has two isa… damn!

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Reply 8 of 8, by Stiletto

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Sidebar: Back in the day, Motherboards Homeworld (eventually motherboards.org) "MOBOT" search engine allowed you to drill down within the database until you found a motherboard(s) with just the featureset you wanted.

These days it's all but a vestigial feature to some co-opted corporate conglomerate: ex. http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/motherboard … _d/DFI/AM75-TC/

Mind you, I don't really remember it in its heyday so perhaps it was only ever a half-baked idea, but this seems like something the hobbyist community could come together on, to rebuild. VOGONS rebuilds the MOBOT?

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do the Fandango!" - Queen

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