First post, by rob8086
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Hi All,
First, let me say how awesome it is that this place exists. I had no idea you all were here, caring about this sort of thing when I thought I was alone in the universe.
Second... I wish I had known you were here two years ago! I built my own Win98 box specced as follows:
CPU: Tautalin PIII (SL6BY) @ 1.4GHz
MOBO: ASUS TUV4X (VIA Apollo Pro133T)
RAM: 1GB PC133 (2x 512MB)
GPU: Radeon 9800XT
Soundcard: SoundBlaster SB0350 (even though the mobo has onboard SB)
I've also got an 80GB 7200k IDE HDD, a DVD optical drive, a 500W PSU, yada yada.
I thought, when I built it, that I really had the research down pat. And I still think some of the choices I made are good ones (looking at you, Tautalin and VIA chipset). The biggest thing I'm concerned with right now is the GPU. I see on here, over and over again, that ATI cards should be avoided... yet I've had no problems with mine. The cards I see suggested on here seem like they wouldn't quite be powerful enough to max the games I want to max. I'm looking at basically anything that came out prior to the release of Windows XP as being fair game here. I use Return to Castle Wolfenstein as my kind of "bonus bench" since it came out a month after XP.
So I'm really curious here (and a little excited, honestly) to see what you lot might change about this build. I know there is a preference for the Intel i815E chipset, but that caps out at 512MB RAM. With Win98SE SP3, I've seen no reason not to push that to 1GB or higher (though really, I can't imagine any of these games using even the full gig I have already).
Anyway. Thanks for reading, looking forward to seeing your ideas!
Corruptor : ASUS TUV4X - Intel SL6BY @ 1.4GHz - 2x 256MB PC133 - ATI Radeon 8500 - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS SB0350
Aggressor : ASUS TUSL2 - Intel SL6BY @ 1.4GHz - 2x 256MB PC133 - NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4600 - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS SB0350