athlonXP mobo with isa slot?

[HangTime]

I'm just wondering if theres any palamino-capable (XP) mobos out there which sport an isa slot, as i need one for my modem. Obviously it would need to be up to standard in other areas, the epox kt266a board looks quite nice but alas no isa slot.

Since there is no pci/external modem in the same league as my pace 56 voice internal ISA, getting an ISAless board would not only mean shelling out more cash, but also at least +15 ping or so.

Such is the price of technological change in the pc market... gain in most areas but fall back in others, legacy support both holds back development but also helps people like myself. No doubt a few years down the line we will all be forced to use cordless optical mice with crappy control, no floppy drive to boot off when our hd gets fucked up and the removal of addon-graphics chipsets.

But back to the point in hand, do such (quality) boards exist? I know you could get some of the decent tbird boards with an isa slot, what about XP?

 

[Embattle]

Bin it....ISA is crap.

 

[Sawtooth]

Didnt think the Athlon XP was anything special over a normal TBird...guess I'm wrong?

Saw

 

[WPKenny]

Anything with the 133A chipset will take the XP.
I've got an ABIT KT7A that will take anything up to a XP 1900+ with the current BIOS release and that has an ISA slot.
Only dissadvantage that board has is that it takes "normal" memory and not DDR.

 

[Wij]

Abit usually have an ISA slot so check out reviews of their new KR7A.

 

[WPKenny]

Originally posted by Embattle
Bin it....ISA is crap.

Nah. I used a whole load of different modems and I've never found one that comes close to the ISA Pace 56k. When I used it to play Q2 etc I got ping averaging around 110ms on BW dialup. I got weirdos complimenting me on my ping and asking how I got it so low. Some people even thought I was ISDN.
I never did any tweaks to the modem, just installed it and logged.
It's a shame Pace went the way of the dodos.

 

[Embattle]

Pace = Great
ISA = Utter Crap

 

[Wij]

My Pace 56k ISA was pretty good. Still got it upstairs

 

[Will]

Is this the same Pace that make set-top boxes?

 

[Embattle]

Yep.

 

[HangTime]

-wij: thanks i'll check it out

-embattle: isa maybe "crap" but ive yet to see a pci/external analog modem capable of sub-95 in-game pings on a freecall dialup (sub-85 using ping.exe).

 

[Wij]

hmm, looks like even Abit have given up on ISA now since both the KR7 and KG7 are missing one

The only DDR motherboard I could find with an ISA slot seems to be this:-

http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010806/amd_760-11.html

which LOOKS like it has one. But it's a very basic board and probably hard to find :/

 

[Embattle]

TBH ISA was meant to be dropped ages ago but the need to keep it for some NIC/Modems/etc meant it always remained

Well now its going, about time too. Bin the ISA and get yourself a CM