First post, by Tmp2k
Hi all, I've been lurking for a while, I bought a Compaq P3 for £10 a few weeks ago and got it looking and running like new. I now know that P2/3's are going for a premium on eBay so pretty chuffed with myself 😁
Anyway, I now want to try something else. I'm aware you can build a P4 Win98 rig using the 865G chipset, I was initially looking at socket 478, the Dell GX270 SFF looked an ideal candidate, but then I realised you can get LGA775, so I bought this -> https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/P5P800VM/overview/ It came with a P4 3.2GHz and 2GB RAM all for £10 😁
So I'm thinking I dual boot Win98 / XP. that way I can play anything. I can limit 98 to just see the first 512MB RAM and I believe it will work with HT/Dual-core just on one core. Then XP will use both cores and all the RAM.
I'm sure there's a reason that P2/3's are all sold out, and you can pick up the top-spec P4 for £7, but I can't see why this isn't going to work.
Also, what do people think the best LGA775 CPU is? I'm looking at the Pentium D 450 - it's 3.4GHz, dual-core, 95W.