I've decide to replace my 486dx4-100 build with a SS7.

My first SS7 setup as a kid was an original K6-200 on a QDI Titanium (Intel 430TX), that died and was replaced later with an Aopen AX59 Pro (shame to think thats one I should have kept today 🤣!).

So this week I've been getting parts to do a SS7 build.

already have;

- FIC PA-2013 v2.1
- K6-2+ 500
- cooler
- 3c905c-tx-m
- awe32/28mb

I need to decide on a video card. probably going to get a g400max. I remember I got one when it was new (I worked then in a development house that owned a computer store so we could get stuff on discount it we bugged the retail guys...) still have some old tools in my original dos directory from back in the day, gx00vbe.. Was gonna get geforce3 but that feels like overkill for this level.

got a sata to ide interface coming, this is so I can plug the Gigabyte I-RAM ramdisk (4gb ram on it) in.. swap file on the ramdisk whoop! hell, might not even need a swap file anymore with 512mb ram on win98se.

Will probably run win98se. Back in the day I ran win2k (I still have that lovely holographic cd from microsoft), I remember it was a bit of a pain to run some games on it tho. I need dos, 98se gives me dos, so thats a done deal.

I think I may preemptivly recap this motherboard, before its gets stuck in a case with all its bits. It has something like 25-30 caps on it from memory. 17 years old... right on the edge of the cap plague...

Thinking I might put some toggle switches on front of the machine tied directly to the frequency jumpers, so I could make a slower cpu setting for booting into dos for old games or something. with setmul, i might not need to do that tho.