ISA for p4....

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

For all of you stuck with propriatary hardware stuck on E-ISA and needing more than a p3 or similar level of hardware.

soyo has decided that maybe they should release a socket 478 (supporting up to 3.06 HT p4 or 2.8 celeron) and 2 GB of ram at 333 or 266 (2 slots)

damn expensive for what you get, but it is a rather specialised board and brand new.

anyhow here is the link
http://www.soyo.com.tw/products/proddesc.php?id=194

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Comments

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

Why does a motherboard supposedly supporting such a new chip have ISA slots on it? And where are the PCI-E slots?? Plus only two RAM slots?
Doesn't sound too hot to me tbh.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

"For all of you stuck with propriatary hardware stuck on E-ISA and needing more than a p3 or similar level of hardware."

because people who have C&C machines with pc controllers or waterjet cutting machines with propriatary ISA or E-ISA based controller cards cannot upgrade past a p3 anymore because of the lack of ISA.

This is a big chance for those companies with this sort of hardware to upgrade or replace failing hardware.

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

d'oh, completely missed that bit.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

how about a SuperMicro P4SCA

I've used these boards at work before, for a machine that had a synchronous ISA modem that was not available in PCI, and for another machine that had an ISA board that was $7000 for the PCI version.

the p4sca supports up to 4 gb of pc400 ram, supports up to p4/3.2, onboard gigabit, onboard SATA, onboard video, but there is no AGP slot.

If i remember right, it also supports working with bios settings over a serial link.. so it'd be a nice match for a server class machine.

It uses the 7210 canterwood chipset according to the webpage, but i seem to remember it using the 875P chipset...

It's about 200 bucks.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

this one just in a cursory look is 174 so a little less hot but 30 bux cheaper...

i was just impressed to see a few of these still exist.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

what is this? an AD for a piece of crap?

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

not really.

i had need of such a device, IE a p4 with ISA.

i found one and thought id share with tech who had to support similarly requirements.

[ozdeadmeat.livejournal.com]

OMFG E-ISA... WTF!!!!

Tell the dumb fucks who use shit that old to make there way to the time machine to put that crap back in the 20th Century dude. FARK.

Also wont accessing that slow the system down to a crawl anyway? Doesnt it run at like 16Mhz or some shit?

Waste of TIME and MONEY.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

it probably runs all the isa of one pci channel with a bridge.

and if you have a 20-30k machine that has a controller that is ISA or e-isa only and in order to upgrade you have to replace the whole machine a 200 dollar mobo like this is a huge value.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Not when the proprietary boards you have on EISA are still working fine, and cost thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade, if there even is a PCI version.

[jecook]

Precisly.

The place I used to work at used multiport serial boards, and a lot of them are ISA cards. When the board costs twice to three times as much as the rest of the system, one does not toss it lightly.

now, if it was a totally new machine, then absolutely, a PCI serial board. but if it's a repair due to a toasted processor or mainboard, then this might work out nicely.