First post, by appiah4
- Rank
- l33t++
I'm embarking on a quest to configure my Optiplex GX110 as a Win2K/Win98SE/Warp4/DOS Quad Boot PC.
The Goal:
- To cover pretty much every game from 1989-1999, which means enough horsepower to play Quake III and Homeworld at 1024x768x16/30fps+
- Have working FM and MIDI audio (Handled through a Dreamblaster X3M) for all OSes, including OS/2
The i810 chipset and the riser card I have for this build limits me to the PCI bus, and 3 expansion slots. The RAM is 512MB (2x256MB) and the CPU is a Coppermine 1000B. What I currently have are:
VGA: Voodoo 2 SLI (which I would have to tear out of my K6-2 system, which would then have to be replaced with an 8MB Voodoo 2 I would have to pay money for..), Matrox G450 PCI, Radeon 7000 PCI, Radeon 9250 PCI
Sound: Terratec 128i (ESS Solo-1), Terratec 512i (FM-801), Ensoniq/Creative AudioPCI, Diamond MX300 (Vortex 2),SB Live/Audigy/Audigy2
If you had to build this, what would you use? Please don't feel limited to what I have, as I can hopefully source more parts.. but if anything I have will cut it for the job, let me know.
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