First post, by xeon3d
Hi.
It seems as I'm getting older, I don't have much patience for older \ slower systems, specially with their "issues". As LGR said once, "you really need to dedicate a lot of time if you're going the old hardware route" or something similar. I'm not aiming for older dos games.
Having said that, I'm thinking of making an all around Later DOS/Win98 Machine that is also able to run XP so I can have USB 2.0 goodness.
My first real question is which of these motherboards is the best? I'm thinking P4 here due to SATA/SSD, but I'm open to other ideas. I have plenty of CPUs and Memory Sticks for these boards.
I might ask about graphics cards too, but lets start with the beginnings first 😜
If indeed P4 is the way to go I currently have these motherboards:
ASRock P4i945GC (478 / i945 chipset / PCI-Express)
PC-Chips (Yay! 😜) M957G (775 / VIA Chipset / AGP)
MSI KT8 Neo-V (478 / VIA / AGP)
Jetway P4MFP533 (478 / VIA P4M266A / AGP)
QDI Platinix 8 (478 / i845 / AGP)
BioStar P4M900-M4 (478 / VIA P4M900 / PCI-Ex)
Asrock P4S61 (478 / SIS 661FX / AGP)
DFI PE11-EC (478 / VIA P4X266A / AGP)
So, if it was you, which one would you choose and why?