CPU Shack: Iwill P55TU Pent Motherboard w/ SCSI - SOLD

[CPUShack]

Here is a very cool one
This is a Iwil P55TU motherboard based on the Intel HX chipset, complete with adaptec SCSI onboard.
Supports 4-72pin SIMMs, Adaptec RAIDBus, 68/50pin SCSI

Comes with Pentium 200 MMX, and all accessories, including a heatsink and fan.

$60 and its yours

[CPUShack]

Make me an offer to put this beauty in your box

[ph4nt0m]

This board looks great, but it has also way too many complications to speak of. 430HX but only 64Mb cacheable, soldered Dallas chip, linear VRM which runs damn hot, and there were some BIOS related issues. I can offer $20 if you absolutely have to get rid of it.

[stamasd]

WTH is that extension behind the first PCI slot? Never seen anything like that.

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[HowlerMonkey]

I built a system for a DAW in 1995 using an Iwill p55tu and added the Adaptec aro1130 for raid capability using striping without parity. I have scsi drives also in external cases....which I'm currently using for a fostex hard disc recorder.

It has an ati 3dxpression and pc2tv which was the two piece solution before the all-in-wonder series of cards and watched tv on it until analog tv disappeared.

Sound card is an awe32 ct39xx with 16 megs in each memory slot for 28 megs of usable onboard sample ram.
I used the spdif output to another card before converting the output to coaxial and later connecting to newer external devices.
This gives zero latency synth usage because it's all handled on the card and not hampered by system bus timing or pc overhead.

That mystery slot in the pics above is for the aro1130 raid controller.

Over the last 25 years drives have died and been replaced but the system runs great.
It all still works great and is still my soundfont machine long after my much newer kt7araid died in 2012.
The Dallas rtc worked for 10 years before replacement!

When it dies, I will get some newer industrial boards that still have 16bit isa slots and hardware bus mastering and dma (not all new isa slot boards have real dma and bus mastering....check for that if you consider one).
The plan is a few retro gaming rigs that still give me the soundfont functionality.

[ph4nt0m]

The last Intel chipsets that can do ISA DMA are the 8x5 series

[HowlerMonkey]

Thanks.....that kind of info is why I signed up here.

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