I've noticed many of you are upgrading to Athlon ~2Gb processors. Looking at motherboard specs in anticipation of upgrading I noticed that the latest boards don't seem to have ISA slots and I guess all will end up like this. Apart from "going USB" has anybody found a good games PCI controller card to run classic CH products -yoke, pro pedals and throttle? In the past I've tried using the inbuilt sound / games "card" on my Abit VL6 but it was hopeless with one sided drift that couldn't be countered. I reverted to my Thrustmaster games card which works fine. The thought of spending ~£300 extra to replace otherwise good kit when I upgrade the processor doesn't appeal. Any help / advice would be appreciated.

• RE: ISA Ports and Game Controllers,andrewluck, 18:24z, 02-12-02
• RE: ISA Ports and Game Controllers,RickLee, 16:34z, 02-13-02
  • RE: ISA Ports and Game Controllers,Ben Chiu, 20:27z, 02-13-02
    • RE: ISA Ports and Game Controllers,davidb, 18:05z, 02-15-02

I use one the on my SB Live card with a digital FLCS, TQS RCS combination without problems.

Andrew Luck
18 SW EGSH

I'm using all USB now, but I had a similar experience as Andrew. The previous motherboard that I had was an Abit SE6 and the game port on that was hopeless. I switched to the gameport on my SoundBlaster PCI128 card and I didn't have any trouble with it. Your mileage may vary.

Rick Lee www.rickleephoto.com

>I switched to
>the gameport on my SoundBlaster PCI128 card and I didn't
>have any trouble with it. Your mileage may vary.

I have the same soundcard and the gameport also works just fine. From my experience, most PCI soundcard gameports work just fine.

Best advice, buy from a store that allows returns.

Ben

Dear All,

I've been away on business most of this week so have just read the replies, many thanks for them. I'll experiment with pci boards in preparation for the "move forward".

David