First post, by atariangamer
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I've been inspired by a few youtube channels recently (PhilsComputerLab being one of them) to go back to the early 2000s in computing. That was a huge gap in my experience, because my family pulled a 1998 mid-range Pentium II as our primary computer right up until a 3Ghz Pentium 4 HT in 2005. That said, I missed quite a few games and operating systems, and want to revisit them.
I can generally figure the builds out on my own, but there are two big questions that I need help answering: AMD vs Intel, and which chipset would be the best?
I'm intending to run FPS games like the Quake series, Half Life, Unreal (and engine games like Deus Ex), some racing games... mainly stuff from right up to the year 2000. While I've considered making Halo: CE my 'top spec' game... That game has rediculously high requirements, so I feel like ~1999 would be my target. Windows is my focus, so I've actually been considering running Windows ME. I know driver support can be finicky, but I've had three machines in the past running ME without a hitch, and I loved that OS.
Budget isn't really an issue, I'll be piecing this together over a few months... really hoping to find a decent 3DFX card instead of going anything else.
If there are any suggestions, I'd appreciate it!
I work on computers all day, just to come home and play with computers all night.