- Radeon 9600 PRO 256 MB (25€) - But we say bye bye to table fog and 8bit paletted texture Guys I'm starting to think of pulling the trigger on this one, it's powerful enough, silent, "cheap", and would see what it can do with Windows 98 older games I'm interested to. What do you think? Or …

BTW, forget CL2.5, the ideal ddr400 sticks will have CL2 timings... for example the corsair xms platinum kit in my 2003 pc that has 2-2-2-5 timings, tho thats 512mb sticks not 1 gig sticks I'm pretty sure that your Corsairs are double sided and they are built using different chips (256 Mb) than 1 …

In general though the KT333 is a bit marginal at 166 for CPUs, though it does fine for DDR. The KT400 is more like the 333A like the 266A revision of the 266 to fix it's bugs... though then they had to do a 400A revision that could actually cope at 200/400. ... I'd even prefer the KM400 boards over …

EDIT: IIRC, doesn't the M725 have the HT1869V+ sound chip? If so, don't be fooled by the "PCI" marking on yours, it isn't a 8738 like mine (in fact, mine is the real 8738 chip, not PCChips' rebadged Soundpro). Yours is an CMI8330 on the ISA bus. The true PCI variants (aka actual 8738 chips) of that …

Soundcard: integrated C-Media CMI8738 PCI (quite buggy under 98SE, dunno why tho, as it runs fine under ME or 2k) I had M725 based on the same chipset (older revision) and exactly the same built-in audio card. There were some compatibility issues under Win98 (eg computer was rebooting automatically …

Also, another rarity I found while digging in my AGP card collection, a 128bit FX5200 video card (leadtek A340 128meg). So yes, they exist as well in real life, and not just part of some fever dream! Well, they aren't as rare as you might think... Many manufacturers produced both 64- and 128-bit …

or an Athlon Socket A and really any recommendations for particular boards because looking at the socket A boards especially it seems like a minefield as to what supports AGP 3.3v and what doesn't , even when they have what looks like a Universal AGP slot they don't necessarily support 3.3v after …

Why bother with the i845 chipset in the first place? i865 supports higher fsb and should not really be any more expensive than an i845 board. I've already written that i865 is an option - check my all my posts in this thread. Regarding price and availability: it depends where you live. In my case I …

ah ok :) thanks, to look at it better you are probably right :) :) it will mean that i will buy a radeon 7000 :):) Well, it depends how much you'll pay for Radeon 7000 PCI :) There's a chance, that you'll be able to get a s478 motherboard based on i845 chipset (with AGP), Pentium 4 Northwood and …

It looks like that power, reset buttons and leds connectors are combined into one... That's bad. In that case you'll probably need to cut this connector into parts to connect them to another motherboard.

i see in the picture that there is an agp slot on the first place or not? near first pci? :) Looks more like CNR/AMR slot to me... AGP slot is longer and it will be positioned in a different way (it shouldn't be so close to PCI slot). CNR/AMR slots can be used for sound cards, modems etc but not …

Motherboard looks like standard mATX to me. I would look for some s478 mATX motherboard with i865 (or i845 with AGP port if low price is important) chipset. This will give you a much better graphic performance and ability to use wide range of AGP cards (4x or 8x), which are usually cheaper than PCI …

I would try to lower VRAM clock by 10 or 15 MHz first (you can use RivaTuner for that). Maybe it will help... Back then in 2002 I had 2MX 400 with V-Data memory and raising their clock by just 5 MHz caused artifacts...

@drosse1meyer You can always try to overclock your cpu to 200 MHz (just set multiplier to 3x) and check how much your framerate improve. Later you can use FSB 75 MHz if your board supports it.

- Are PIII/Athlons "slowdown" friendly (cache, downclock)? It depends on what "Athlon" you're talking about. On first Athlons for socket A (Thunderbird core, up to 1,4 GHz) you can re-connect L1 bridges (pencil mod - http://fab51.com/cpu/barton/athlon-e23.html#L1) and use BIOS/Dip switches/jumpers …

I remember playing Half Life back then in 1998 on my Celly 266, PCChips with Ali chipset and Voodoo Rush 6 MB. Performance was okay (15-25 fps) when there was not much action on screen. But later in game when more enemies attacked you at once or during explosions framerate often dropped under 10 fps …

Try Screamer Rally - that was my favorite game from "early 3dfx era". It should work really good on your machine (friend of mine played it on P100 or P120 with Voodoo Rush).