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I have a intel motherboard 915 what I can use for?

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First post, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2019-08-18, 18:08

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I have too many choices of ivy bridge, sandy bridge and a fully restored C2D machines for XP so I'm not sure what to do to use for what: 915 this board late 98se but GPU choices is limited, thinking about 2GB total, having XP on this is rebundent. It was from a 5 dollar computer case that I needed case for other project especially Pentium computer project for DOS.

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Reply 1 of 5, by dionb

Posted on 2019-08-18, 18:42

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PCIe and Win98SE is a pain in the arse to put it mildly. If you don't want XP (or Vista or 7), you could consider MacOS...

Reply 2 of 5, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2019-08-20, 01:52

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I am aware about MacOS but what one is best version to use on 2GB ram and P4 3.0-3.6GHz range and play with and I also thought need hardware apple computer for the serial key to unlock MacOS? I have choice of video cards of both nvidia and radeon as well.

This 915 chipset I am not sure of but it does have iGPU due to VGA port, but does have x16 PCIe slot for GPU card, along with four PCI slots and two x1 slots, parallel & serial ports, two separate PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, intel chipset for ethernet. four SATA ports, and one IDE connector, one floppy connector.
And is beautiful green intel made motherboard. D915GAV/D915PGN retail intel desktop motherboard as it was from a generic computer (MDG which was a Canadian brand).

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Reply 3 of 5, by Deksor

Posted on 2019-08-20, 09:06

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I didn't have really any issues with my GA-VM900M with 98SE which is a socket 775 motherboard with PCIe. What kind of problems pcie is causing with 98 ?

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Reply 4 of 5, by chinny22

Posted on 2019-08-20, 10:09

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Windows 2000 just for something different? But the MacOS idea sounds more interesting

Reply 5 of 5, by orcish75

Posted on 2019-08-21, 12:12

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Can also convert it into a decent media server, older 8 port hardware RAID cards are cheap as chips on EBAY now, or a Zeroshell/IPCop/PFSense etc router.

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