First post, by senrew
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Ok, time to get serious about this. This thread will be about my build process to put together a machine JUST for DX 7 and 8 games. I was originally going to base this on a Socket A platform but that build took a crap, so now I have two more to choose from. Any insights from others would be appreciated.
This entire build is centered around using a Geforce4 Ti 4600 w/ 45.23 drivers. The two motherboards I have to base this off of are:
P4 2.8 HT (Northwood) on an ASUS P4C800 (non-deluxe or anything)
Or
Athlon 64 3000+ on a Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP (Socket 754)
The rest of the parts are pretty basic, SATA hard drive, Possibly an Audigy 2 of some kind of I can pick one up soon.
I've yet to decide on Win98 or XP, as I can do either with these parts. XP was the "standard" OS by the era of these parts, but Win98 was still usable for gaming for several years later, with a lot of the games on my shelf listing 98 as the minimum OS.
Any opinions before I start the process of installing one of the boards in a case?
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B