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What Hardware To Keep? - Help me decide!

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First post, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-12-16, 18:54

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What to keep... I don't have a lot of room to store things at the moment, so I need to be selective about what I keep.

Out of the hardware below, what 2 would you keep from each selection for Windows 98/XP use. They all work.

PCI Sound (Note: I have no other PCI sound cards, only ISA)

Sound Blaster Audigy EAX Advanced HD – SB1394 / SB0090
Sound Blaster Audigy EAX Advanced HD – SB0160
Sound Blaster Live – CT4870
Sound Blaster – CT4810
Diamond XtremeSound 7.1 – GQ968

AGP Graphics

BFG GeForce 6600 GT 128MB GDDR
PNY GeForce 7600 GS 512MB GDDR2
PNY GeForce 6200 256MB DDR2
ATI Radeon 9000 128MB DDR
ATI Radeon 9250 128MB DDR
Jayton 3DForce2MX 32MB SDR – GeForce2 MX

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Reply 1 of 4, by RetroPCCupboard

Posted on 2024-12-16, 23:41

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Are these just spare components or are you trying to build a PC? Do you already have a retro PC (or PCs) set up? If so, what is in them? None of them jump out at me as being particularly difficult to source, should you change your mind. But I am no expert.

Reply 2 of 4, by chinny22

Posted on 2024-12-16, 23:44

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Both Audigy's, better than the other Creative cards in every way, and support both 98 and XP unlike the Diamond.

Jayton 3DForce2MX 32MB SDR – GeForce2 MX, Good compatible card for Win98.
I've no strong opinion for the second card.
GF6 as its the last with official Win98 support but compatibility issues or GF7 as it's the fastest card but would really want something faster for XP

Reply 3 of 4, by soggi

Posted on 2024-12-16, 23:51

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- definitely one Audigy ... and the CT4870 (or the Diamond, or both Audigys)
- definitely the GeForce 6600 GT ... and 7600 GS (or Radeon 9000, if you want to keep an ATI too)

"Crap" in my eyes: CT4810, GeForce 6200, Radeon 9250, GeForce2 MX - especially if you only want to use 98(SE)/XP.

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Reply 4 of 4, by StriderTR

Posted on 2024-12-17, 19:28

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RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2024-12-16, 23:41:

Are these just spare components or are you trying to build a PC? Do you already have a retro PC (or PCs) set up? If so, what is in them? None of them jump out at me as being particularly difficult to source, should you change your mind. But I am no expert.

Spare parts. Though I may build myself a Win98SE or XP machine in the near future. None of them are anything special, but free is a really good price. 😀

I've pretty much decided to keep both Audigy cards and part with the rest.

For the AGP cards, I realized I have no other AGP cards anywhere in my limited collection, so for now, all of them are going in their own box until something "better" comes along.

Thanks for the input! 😀

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