First post, by xjas
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Do these exist? I'm looking for a way to merge my workstation and gaming rig. Currently the 'workstation' is running a "C2Q" (Xeon E5440) on a 775 board (Asus P5Q) with excellent legacy features - BIOS-supported LS120 & Zip drives (I can even boot from floppy on the LS120 drive), dual serial ports, 3 "old" PCI slots, etc. I actually need most of these features, especially the LS120 & Zip drives as I use them all the time for transferring data to retro systems and archiving floppies.
The gaming rig is an i7 3770 based Dell Optiplex 7010 with a single PCI slot that currently houses my Datapath VisionRGB Pro1 capture card. AFAIK it's fairly legacy-deficient and doesn't even have IDE.
Ideally I'd like a full-ATX 1155 board with Ivy Bridge support, DDR3, PS/2 ports, IDE, and at least two or three PCI slots. That would give me a nice foundation to combine the two systems on. I'm open to other platforms, but I don't feel like messing with AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver space heaters and it'd need to be a pretty substantial upgrade over the C2Q/Xeon to be worth the effort.
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