Thank you all, this seems to be a very friendly place and a lot of people willing to help! However, after thinking about it for a while, I decided to go for a Super Socket 7 system... Several reasons for this: - I never actually had a Slot1 system, my first PC was a fast 286 (20 MHz), in 1997 I …

I'm really digging these convertible cases, I think Compaq did something very similar too, with some of their full size Deskpro computers (don't quote me on that lol, I haven't seen any of these) I think HP still has some PCs in "CMT" cases (CMT stands for Convertible Mini Tower). I had Elite 8300 …

A Via C3 Ezra CPU, ran through a slotket, is highly configurable from software, the speed can be set in fine grains from 386 to early Pentium III performance. I would go as far as to say it's a fully equivalent option to a SS7/AMD K6-2/3 system when it comes to flexibility. That's very interesting, …

Hi, Thank you all for the excellent advice! Currently I'm looking for a Micro-ATX Slot-1 motherboard because I want to build this retro PC in an old IBM NetVista case. It seems microATX options are a bit limited but there are some decent-looking motherboards from MSI, Gigabyte and Fujitsu.

In early 2000s I had a 440BX machine that was hanging every 5-10 minutes in Windows 98 but worked fine in Windows 2000 and XP. I vaguely remember that the problem was related to the AGP GART driver. I'm not sure it would affect pure DOS though.

Hi all, Long time lurker and first time poster here. I will have to spend a lot of time at home for medical reasons, and I want to build a retro system for playing DOS and Windows 98 games on it. I'm not interested in super early DOS stuff, I think Dune II is probably the earliest game I want to …