First post, by Xenphor
I watched this video from philscomputerlab about building a cheap windows 98 machine with an athlon 64:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtyLkfvozck
Since I'm not too concerned about using period accurate hardware and just want decent performance and compatibility, would using a Socket 939 board with a Athlon 64 3200 like he did in the video work?
I was only able to find variations of the Asus A8V motherboard on ebay, like the A8V-X, so I'm not sure if that will be a problem.
Another problem is the video card. I was not able to find a geforce 4 ti 4400 or 4200 for that cheap but I'm guessing there are others that would work?
I suppose there's probably a million different combinations of parts you could use that would also be compatible and give good performance, I was just mostly going by what he did in the video because then I could mimic the build on my own and know that it would probably work. I think I'm mostly concerned about what heatsink/fan combo to use and how to mount it because I'm only familiar with aftermarket ones that are used on newer sockets. Also not sure about what to do for storage because I'd rather not use an old mechanical drive, so I suppose I could use compact flash?
The only issue I would see could probably be lack of Glide compatibility or perhaps special proprietary audio API support.