i've had some old school builds mainly with intel tutulian cores but, 1 is linux machine and has been acting funky and the other dead and my 700mhz slot a amd system has been acting funky and my had a p1 tower that died so i'm finding some p4 and socket a mob and cpu combo deals and will be upgrading. i hardly classic game and usually on dos box so yeah my systems and have given me some bad luck so i'll just rebuild. nice specs on the first 2 and rip for the 3rd one.

I really like the Tualatin Core P3's. In a lot of cases, they've been faster than P4's I've used.

I have a 1.4GHz and it's never let me down. It's even plenty fast enough to run Virtual PC on it and run old DOS and Win3.x guest OS's on it. it's a great proc from intel. Then they went and ruined things with NetBurst.

my linux box one has i think it could be the motherboard the Tualatin cpu i got actually has the the adapter built in it and apparently they are good and you can over clock them too wich is neat and i did a dabbled a little bit with only a few mhzs any who the compatibility list has my mother board i think it could be the motherboard but any who i i got a p4/mobo combo for cheap amd still have a spare socket 939 cpu lying around so i think my stuff is going to go a lot faster.

Hmmm... my retro systems, let me think...

1.st
Pentium 200Mhz MMX
64MB RAM
somewhat 10GB HDD totally
Riva 128 Videocard
Voodoo I 3D card
Sound Blaster Awe 32 / 28MB + Yamaha XG DB-50
Gravis Ultrasound MAX 1MB + Roland SC-55 MKII External
Roland SCC-1 + MT32 Exrernal
Media Vision Pro Audiospectum 16
.... all working perfectly together....

2.
Pentium 4 1800mhz
512MB RAM
30GB HDD
Matrox G400 MAX
Voodoo 2 SLI
Turtle Beach Monte Carlo + Yamaha XG DB-60

3.
AMD Athlon 3000+
1GM RAM
MATROX PARHELIA 512
SB AUDIGY
300GB HDD

..... And still looking for: Adlib, Adlib Gold 1000, Adlib Gold 2000, Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum+, Media Vision Thunderboard, Roland LAPC-I, Roland CM-32L, Roland CM-64, Roland RAP-10... just tell me if you wan't to sell.

I know where you can get a pas+, the catch being they want $50. This card is hidden because it's mislabeled/using some non standard number that doesn't conform to convention, but the card pictures reveal the truth. Thunderboards were made by a few OEMs, one compudyne, called it boomboard, was sold in compusa. Ibm ac525 might be a thunderboard, which is probably the best in luck in finding one, ibm, compaq and dell parts kept around though usually ridiculously overpriced, I've seen os2 site said to use thunderboard drivers, the jumpers sites show a different picture they may or may not be correct. If you could discern what looks like garbage on the screen to me, searching asian selling sites you'll have better luck getting roland modules.

@ solikka:

Just curious: why have 2 almost identical Rolands in that first system ?
Is the SCC-1 just used for the midi port/MPU401, or... ?

PS: not the cheapest I've seen, but still.... 😎
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Roland-CM-64-Soun … id=p3286.c0.m14