I didn't even have a crappy PCIe soundcard in case I needed one, so now I've got a crappy PCIe soundcard in case I needed one. A SB1570 turned up in a thrift for like 10% new price, so it came home with me. Just the Audigy FX, HDA and software EAX. Might end up in a Core2 Quad Vista box or something, if it will work there. Then hopefully can assign affinity of EAX stuffs to 4th core, since that will tend to get barely loaded with anything.
Also there for pocket change were a couple of ATX2ATX-N03 adapter for synching power up of dual PSU. You plug primary 5.25 molex into it and uses a relay to kick in the the powergood of the secondary ATX psu. Could be handy at some point or I could tag P8 P9 connectors to back and misuse them as converters, or when I'm running out of decent AT PSUs, I might use a weakass one of those as primary, and a weakass ATX as secondary to power all the drives or something.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.