First post, by data9791
Been wanting to build a high end Win98 gaming rig for a while now. Was recently gifted an Asus A7N8X motherboard along with an Athlon XP 2800+ CPU (AXDA2800DKV4D) and 512mb Geil PC3200 DDR400 RAM. The motherboard uses the nForce chipset and appears to have Win98 Driver support, but I am dubious as to how well it would work. I also have the opportunity to pick up a BFG Geforce 6800 OC 128MB for basically free. From what I understand this card quite potent for 98 era games and has decent driver support for the OS. Will this CPU and GPU pair without major bottlenecks? Is there any advice you can give me? I understand this hardware is a bit out of the ideal time period for Win98, but money is very tight and I'd very much like to make this work if possible as it will represent almost no money out of pocket. Below are specs links:
Motherboard
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/n … e1859_a7n8x.pdf
CPU
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%2 … A2800DKV4D.html
RAM
https://www.memoryc.com/3659-512mb-geil-pc320 … 3-6-module.html