Sorry for the necro post, but it seems the best thread I can find for this. I went the Intel route. A 10980xe with full VROC build (10 TB NVME) , RTX 3080, 64GB of ram and a SB AE5 sound card all in a Phantek Enthoo 2 case with vertical mounts. It is almost the fastest there is with out of the box …

Thanks, Dolenc. I've been toying with the idea of picking up his black AGP one with DVI and the PCIE power connector. That's a very nice looking card. I also saw he was working on a PCIE version of the card which could really be interesting, but I expect most fast AGP systems would be graphics bound …

@anthony is there any chance of a Changeling offering with the VSA-100 320 chips and copper heatsinks like Dolenc has modified his board with, or are the chips too rare?

Subbing to this for interest.

Thanks, I think that's what I'm going to do for now. It's the cheapest option to see if I like it. I did grab an Audigy 2 ZS off ebay yesterday to fill out the audio section. Both the FX and GF3 have 64MB of memory and DVI, and the FX does AGP 8x as well. It appears only weaker in the Texel fill …

I'm not so concerned with "period correct" as things ran so slow on that hardware. I would rather run any Win98 games of interest really fast using hardware that still had drivers made for the older OS. Anything I would play in DOS (old Star Wars games) have been ported to Steam, so that's also a …

If it helps clear up the first post a bit. My Win7 build gave way to Win10 because stuff from that era I want to run works in it. My WinXP build will handle everything that works for the DX8 / DX9 era games. For DX7 and earlier games (late 90s being high school age for me), and Glide, is what I'm …

Hello, I've had a bit of fun building some machines the last year or so to run some older games of mine, and learned quite a bit along the way. Phils Computer Lab gave me most of the nudge to go down the path. Most of my builds revolve around Intel 4th Gen / Haswell to take advantage of the DDR3 I …