OK, I bought my wifey on e of the Blaster PC kits from Tigerdirect, because at $149, inclucing a huge case, BX motherboard, and Soundblaster Live Platinum plus FM tuner, it was too good a deal to pass up.

Unfortunately, I could not get her Celeron 566 to run at 850 on it, even at 1.90v (pin trick), but it did run 580 at 1.70v on my CUSL2 fine. So I switched with her, I put all my parts except the sound card from my main system into the Blaster PC. I get 200 marks less in 3DM2K, but that's not bad considering the rather limmited BIOS. I have it running a P3 700@933. I adjusted the voltage to 1.85v by modifying the slotket. And it suites me fine as a main system.

Now, her PC was ment to run the entertainment system, and since my old Vortex 2 card sounds better anyway, it should be great for that, but it seems like a waste to use the CUSL2 for it.

Oh well, anyway, I thought this little rant would give you guys a good idea of the quality of the Blaster PC. With only about 3% lower performance than the CUSL2, it is a very good deal, costing about the same as the sound card alone would cost at most discount distrbutors. Or about the same as a CUSL2 motherboard.

BTW, Tigerdirect is my least favorite distributor, but I don't know where else you can get this great deal.

Oh, and you can get 1.85v from 1.65v by bridging Vid3 to VSS and disconnecting (drilling out) Vid2 on a slotket.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine