First post, by soviet conscript
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well, i've gone through three builds so far in creating my 196-98 era win95 machine but with the possible exception of video card I think i'm finally done.
my first build was using a AT board and a small case, it was a little underpowered IMO and very cramped. The second build used a PII and was nice except that the motherboard had one dead ps/2 port and the case had a few issues (used rails which I only had 2 and the cover didn't fit properly)
so here is the most likly final specs for my machine
motherboard: Intel E139761
CPU: Pentium II 350mhz (bumped up from 300mhz in 2.0 build)
RAM: 384MB SDRAM
ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP (changed from Virge/GX in 2.0)
Rightous Orchid Voodoo 1
Creative DRX2 DVD card
AWE64 Gold + mem expansion
AHA-2940W SCSI card and a 7200rpm 9.1GB SCSI hard drive
Iomega ZIP 100mb drive
This particular MB also only supports 1 floppy drive in BIOS so to get around that I replaced my 1.44mb floppy drive with a LS-120 drive which reads/writes 1.44mb/720K floppies faster anyways.
along with the DVD drive I also added an NEC multi CD changer drive. I thought it was a neat addition and made some sence since a lot of those early CD-ROM Win games came on multiple CD's
The only thing i'm probably going to change is the video card. the ATI was kind of a place holder. I wanted to use a card that had a proprietary API since that was kinda a "thing" for the era and since the virge gx/2 did this at a reasonable speed as well as had good DOS compatibility I wanted to go with it. after having some odd conflict issues I was ready to try formatting and reinstalling then i though...meh. The ATI really is probably a better card plus the only real S3D exclusive i'd be interested in would be terminal velocity and Havoc and the gx2 does even do TV correctly. the V1 kinda satisfies my proprietary API need anyways. I still think the ATI is kinda "meh" though I am interested in the ATI version of wipeout.
considering going with a Riva 128 or an INTEL i740. or any suggestions?