Reply 20 of 115, by ruthan
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Thanks for responses.
wrote:Native Tualatin support with ISA is rare, but it certainly exists and there have been many threads here on Vogons dedicated to them.
I tried to find something but if someone know some MB names from top of their head it would be nice.
wrote:Less natively, you can use a lot of later BX boards with Tualatin CPUs with an FC-PGA2 (or modded FC-PGA) socket with ISA galore.
Even if you leave out Tualatin, a 1GHz Coppermine runs rings around a 600MHz K6-3+.
Im not sure if understand it correctly, there are some 440BX which are supporting 1400 Tualation of box? Or at least 1 GHz one? How to recognize them, i guess that is not somewhere officially in manual or manufacturers page..
wrote:Tbh, I think you're trying to do too much with one machine. Yes, you can run every OS on a single computer, but it involves a lot of compromises, causes issues and takes you far, far away from anything like period-correct.
Im usually quite sucessfull with these projects, it only need lots of research. I now have one very fast machine, with is still dos capable with anything after. And now i need something for some games which are not working on it, 80% of issues, which im not able to fix, are usually sound related and ISA soundcard will fix lots of them. Im not patient and i hate waiting, so fast and possible is other target.
wrote:Does not compute. Most compatible is rarely as fast as possible. Focus a bit more...
I think that its ok, you just have 2 criteria, first is most important.. but less say, if could trade 2% of compatibility for 50% of performance i will.
wrote:I use a lot of Linux, with the main 'desktop' and backup machine in my retro area running Lubuntu on an nForce3 AGP motherboard with Phenom II quadcore. I also use an old Knoppix release (4.0, from 2004) as a diagnostic & test CD for PCI-based systems, but most definitely not for regular (inter)networking. 15-year old Linux is as insecure as an unpatched Windows XP install
Im not hardcore Linux admin, developer so i dont care about security, Linux is already much safer than Windows, because of number of spyware and viruses which are targeting it. I need something that would work out of box, i dont want spend too much time with it, i just need copy some files through network, 2 monitors, Grub as bootloader, from USB flash and i emergency slowly google something.
wrote:I prefer VIA 694T boards for these kinds of builds, but even if you go with an i810/815 without ISA slots there are PCI chipsets that are genuine OPL3 and work with these early ICH chipsets flawlessly in Win9x such as AZFIN3328 or very good clones that work similarly well like the FM801.
Why its better ISA slots or something else?
Update, i found some Phil Intel vs VIA Tualatin 1.4 GHz video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkJbJDCTW4U
List of Socket 370 motherboards
https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_ … 70_motherboards
Im old goal oriented goatman, i care about facts and freedom, not about egos+prejudices. Hoarding=sickness. If you want respect, gain it by your behavior. I hate stupid SW limits, SW=virtual world, everything should be possible if you have enough raw HW.