ASUS K7M Motherboard Athlon Slot A AMD Irongate 751 + VIA-686A
The ASUS K7M mainboard is a very decent SLOT-A motherboard and will run almost any SLOT-A Athlon CPU you put in it. Starting with the very first Pluto CPUs as well as the Orion Athlon CPUs and of course the Thunderbird.
While the AMD Irongate chipset is not known for performance (see the VIA KT133 based boards for that), it will accept any SLOT-A CPU, even the Thunderbird 1000 which is only supported by the Irongate chipset. Other chipsets can´t handle it unless you lower the frequency. However, the K7M will work with all Athlon SLOT-A CPUs. The AGP suppot is good, stable, and decent fast. If you plan to build a retro gaming system with a highend AGP card installed, like the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP I would recommend to go for the AOpen AK72 (see other offers), otherwise this board will do just fine.The fact, that the K7M has very modern I/O ports for the time it´s from along with a robust power stabilisation makes it the perfect choice for a Windows retro gaming system.
A Voodoo3 AGP graphics card, or a simple Riva128 along with one or two Voodoo 2 cards (see my other offers) are a decent choice for this board.
Since it has no onboard sound (and who would want that anyway) you should add a soundcard too. Maybe a Creative Soundblaster X-Fi PCI on the one end or, if you want to go the retro way, you may use a MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 ISA card. After all it has an ISA slot to do just this (or install other ISA cards).
You may find all mentioned parts (like Voodoo, Soundblaster etc.) in my other offers. If you buy more than one item, drop me a message first if you like and I will cut you a good deal here on .
The K7M mainboard is used but in good condition. The newest BIOS is installed.
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