Hi. A few months ago I had the urge to assemble a retro gaming PC for Windows 9x/DOS. I wanted to build a fast, uncompromising and trouble-free system in which everything would run at full speed. I also didn't want to spend any big money on it, so I was bidding on components worth a maximum of $10 at auctions. I admit that I bought way too much anyway because I spent about $ 500 on several different boards, cases, processors, rams, disks, graphics cards, sound cards and other parts. I started with building systems based on Pentium 2.. 3.. 4.., but they did not meet my expectations in terms of speed. Then I tried the AM2 platform with Athlons and Phenoms. Phenoms turned out to be surprisingly fast but I ended up with Socket 775 and Core 2 Duo which turned out to be the fastest.
My current configuration:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31 ESL2
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz oc to 3.66GHz
Memory: 2GB DDR2 1066MHz
Graphics Card: Radeon X600 128MB
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy SB090
Storage: 120GB SSD, 80GB HDD, DVD-ROM