I don't personally know of any motherboard/CPU combo that you've got listed that is incompatible with Win2K, but I'd imagine most of them have drivers available to support an installation.

If you're concerned about performance ... as I type this I'm installing Win2K on a Coppermine Celeron 1.1GHz w/256MB RAM; it's pretty responsive on the desktop and for some basic tasks, but sadly not the task it's set up for (scanning in documents - can't add more RAM to it due to 810 chipset limitations). Which applications will you be running?

JidaiGeki wrote:

I don't personally know of any motherboard/CPU combo that you've got listed that is incompatible with Win2K, but I'd imagine most of them have drivers available to support an installation.

If you're concerned about performance ... as I type this I'm installing Win2K on a Coppermine Celeron 1.1GHz w/256MB RAM; it's pretty responsive on the desktop and for some basic tasks, but sadly not the task it's set up for (scanning in documents - can't add more RAM to it due to 810 chipset limitations). Which applications will you be running?

2000-2006 games mostly and maybe internet browsing since it's going to use some kernel extensions to have it run newer apps.

PcBytes wrote:

JidaiGeki wrote:

I don't personally know of any motherboard/CPU combo that you've got listed that is incompatible with Win2K, but I'd imagine most of them have drivers available to support an installation.

If you're concerned about performance ... as I type this I'm installing Win2K on a Coppermine Celeron 1.1GHz w/256MB RAM; it's pretty responsive on the desktop and for some basic tasks, but sadly not the task it's set up for (scanning in documents - can't add more RAM to it due to 810 chipset limitations). Which applications will you be running?

2000-2006 games mostly and maybe internet browsing since it's going to use some kernel extensions to have it run newer apps.

In which case it'll probably need as much horsepower as it can get! For that the P4P800/3GHz P4 and AGP 3450 would be your top setup, these guys were running similar specs in 2015 - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174055-buildi … ed-some-advice/

Which pair of socks should i wear today, the options are: white, black, blue or gray? Please help, i have no idea which pair would fit me best 😒

I'd go with the PCChips just for old times sake when we could barely afford even those 😀. Browsing is not gonna be fun...

I plan to do something similar with a socket7 chips board, but the transistor in the VR part will get a nice powerfull upgrade first.

elod wrote:

I'd go with the PCChips just for old times sake when we could barely afford even those 😀. Browsing is not gonna be fun...

I plan to do something similar with a socket7 chips board, but the transistor in the VR part will get a nice powerfull upgrade first.

It's a KT266A motherboard which is pretty boring at best.

I might go with the P4P800-E as JidaiGeki suggested, although I'm probably going to use the Sapphire Radeon 9600SE 128MB because even in the given conditions the AGP HD3450 would be overkill. For the record, I'd actually see the 3450 in more of a XP-Vista machine (that I might actually build once I get some SATA cables) combined with a mere Sempron 2800+ which is pretty enough (although I suppose I can find a Athlon 64 2800+ or 3000+ on 754 or even 939) for light browsing and maybe some higher end GTA San Andreas gaming (by higher end I mean ENB Series and such)

JidaiGeki wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

JidaiGeki wrote:

I don't personally know of any motherboard/CPU combo that you've got listed that is incompatible with Win2K, but I'd imagine most of them have drivers available to support an installation.

If you're concerned about performance ... as I type this I'm installing Win2K on a Coppermine Celeron 1.1GHz w/256MB RAM; it's pretty responsive on the desktop and for some basic tasks, but sadly not the task it's set up for (scanning in documents - can't add more RAM to it due to 810 chipset limitations). Which applications will you be running?

2000-2006 games mostly and maybe internet browsing since it's going to use some kernel extensions to have it run newer apps.

In which case it'll probably need as much horsepower as it can get! For that the P4P800/3GHz P4 and AGP 3450 would be your top setup, these guys were running similar specs in 2015 - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174055-buildi … ed-some-advice/

Looking at what was asked, I'd tend to go with this suggestion.

The R9600 might be on the weak side for the latter era of games. I noticed a definitive improvement when going from a Radeon 9600 (I think it was the pro variant but I'm not 100% positive) to the GF7600GS. Both GPUs had 256MB RAM.

The K8N is s754, of which the Athlons were pretty good actually! I'm not sure about the chipset as I never used it. But the VIA ones (once you got around its quirks) combined with 2.2GHz Athlon 64 CPUs, were a good combination 😎

elod wrote:

I'd go with the PCChips just for old times sake when we could barely afford even those 😀. .

🤣 you're right. PC Cheaps w Celeron 433 is what I had around 2001. Worked great with Win2k, got the job done