Reply 20 of 70, by chinny22
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Keep an eye on Gumtree, I've gotten a 486 for £2 and a Slot 1 Dell for £11 (5 years ago admittedly)
Apart from the Dell not having Ram or a HDD, they were complete systems. the people selling them were just clearing out old junk. Anything beige is work a look.
Unless part of the attraction is building it from scratch.
If it was me and was just starting out, I would avoid the overclock and stick with a 100 Mhz FSB CPU. Just about any Win98 game that wont run on XP will be more then happy on a 500Mhz CPU which can be had for cheap. (as reference "My Teacher Is An Alien" only needs 100Mhz and that's not getting into the speed differences between P3,P2,P1, etc)
I wouldn't worry about Voodoo just yet, they aren't cheep and if you get a Voodoo 1 or 2 you need a 2D card anyway.
Geforce 4 is probably a good pairing, the ti's will be limited by the CPU no matter what you go with, the MX's will give good performance and great compatibility and pretty cheap.