via https://hackaday.com/2025/03/22/the-fastest-ms-dos-gaming-pc-ever/
After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the deep end. This is how we get [Andy] building the fastest MS-DOS gaming system ever, with ISA slot and full hardware compatibility. After some digging around, the fastest CPU for an Intel platform that still retained ISA compatibility turned out to be Intel’s 4th generation Core series i7-4790K CPU, along with an H81 chipset-based MiniITX mainboard.
For anybody who, like me, was wondering how the fuck a miniITX board, of all things, had ISA support:
[Andy] had to tap into the LPC (low pin count) debug port & hunt down the LDRQ signal on the mainboard. LPC is a very compact version of the ISA bus that works great with ISA adapter boards, specially an LPC to ISA adapter like [Andy]’s dISAppointment board as used here.
fun and nostalgic
ol win98
good times
I watched much of this video and I felt exactly how the creator does. Why would you ever build a fast MD-DOS PC? It’s gonna be too fast for most of the games, and too slow to run current titles. It’s interesting in a geeky kinda way though, kudos to the author.
