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What would you do with a Tualatin PC with ISA slot in an SFF case?

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First post, by RetroPCCupboard

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I have acquired a small PC in a MicroATX low profile case. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-6VEML.

It supports Tualatin (currently has a 1.3Ghz Celeron). Has an ISA slot. There is no AGP slot. It has onboard Trident Blade3D graphics.

According to this, the onboard audio works in DOS:

VIA 686B AC'97 audio works really well in DOS (SB Pro stereo + OPL3 emulation!)

So, what would you do with it?

The ISA slot seems a little wasted here to me, as I am not aware of any low profile ISA soundcards. For PCI video there aren't too many options that I think make sense here.

Thoughts?

Reply 1 of 2, by cyclone3d

Posted on Today, 19:08

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Put it in a different case? Make an external enclosure and extension cables so you can use the slots?

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Reply 2 of 2, by wierd_w

Posted on Today, 19:11

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There's an old thread about low profile isa soundcards, but with a functional onboard one I question why.

Any low profile ISA/EISA sound card out there.

I'd want to put dualboot svardos + winxp setup on there, and use it for a compact game appliance.

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