Reply 20 of 38, by VivienM
sk3886 wrote on 2023-11-12, 19:39:Regarding the motherboard you recommended: there's ASUS P4P800 Rev:2.00A Intel 865PE ICH5R Socket 478 motherboard, ASRock 775i65G R2.0 LGA775 Motherboard and ASRock 775i65GV mATX Motherboard. Out of these 3, I'm still conflicted between the first two. What's your take?
Any particular reason you want to go Intel rather than, as someone else suggested, an Athlon XP? I'm a huge Intel fanboy, but... the reality is that the late late 98SE era happens to coincide with a rather bad period of Intel's history.
P4P800 is a socket 478 board, so you're looking at 90nm Preshot HotBurst P4s. Or older Northwoods. Meh.
ASRock 775i65G R2.0 is one of those rare newer LGA775 i865 boards, so that will run all the 65nm C2D/C2Qs. Realistically, 98SE doesn't support multiple cores, so... you could grab a Celeron 460 if any exist on eBay and have a rather outstanding 98SE machine that probably guzzles 1/3 of the power of the Preshot. Or get a dual/quad core that you can dual boot into something else that supports more cores... except then you get into RAM issues, storage issues, etc.