Kaasschaaf wrote:Artex wrote:+1 for the GF4 Ti. I would go for the 4400 or 4600, going for a little more grunt and skipping the Ti4200.
I found both a Ti 4800 SE and a Ti 4600 GS, I understand the Ti 4800 SE is simply a spiced up 4400? (Thus the 4600 is faster)?
Never heard of "GS" but I know nVidia did odd stuff with branding these cards globally (that is, it isn't consistent from one region of the world to the next).
On the 4800:
Ti 4800SE = Ti 4400 with AGP 8x
Ti 4800 = Ti 4600 with AGP 8x
4800SE isn't a bad card, nor is 4600; either would be good.
Now there is just one issue left: storage. A DVD drive should be fairly logical, a floppy drive shouldn't be needed anymore (as 98SE supports CD booting), but what should I get for rewritable storage? A SSD could be an option on motherboards with SATA-150 (though some more recent SSD's apparently have some issues speaking SATA-150, so much for forwards compatibility). I could also get a PCI SATA controller (though most of them speak only SATA-150, so if above issues are true that would be a problem), or an IDE SSD, but those are really expensive. Apparently there are apparently also IDE to SATA adapters. Or I could go with something more historically accurate and get a conventional HDD, either new (also very expensive, especially when compared with solid state storage), or risk an old HDD (though I have never had any hard drives break on me, not even Maxtor drives)
Why do you need an SSD? And why is a mechanical drive "very expensive compared to solid state storage"? If you're buying new, just get a 250-500GB SATA drive; you won't be able to use all of it (Win98 cannot), but it shouldn't cost terribly much, and it'll be faster than old drives and more than fast enough for Win98, gaming, etc. If you need a PCI card to control it, you may need a floppy drive to load drivers during configuration (same goes for some boards with onboard SATA controllers).