Socket3 wrote on 2023-07-31, 17:18:For win98 the best thing to get (in my humble opinion) if you want to go high end is a Geforce 4 Titanium. The Ti4200 will play […]
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gamefan_851 wrote on 2023-07-30, 20:54:That's good to know. Thanks for the warning. In that case I will limit my search to the 9600rpo like originally planned. […]
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Socket3 wrote on 2023-07-30, 20:16:
An equivalent Geforce fx card would be stepping down really. The fx 5xxx family are rather mediocre cards, particularly low and mid end cards of the generation. 6xxx are debatably overkill for win98. The 9600 is perfectly fine.
That's good to know. Thanks for the warning. In that case I will limit my search to the 9600rpo like originally planned.
After some research i also tempted to start looking for a 9700pro or 9800pro due the very high performance. But after reading about the potential over heating problems and that it might be very hard to get some of these cards in working order at decent price I moved back to only consider the 9600pro.
I have also narrowed down which mother boards to get.
Will either get a Gigabyte K8VT800M or the Asus A7V880.
While searching around I aso found a sock 939 mainboard from abit the ABIT ABIT-KN8 VER:1.0 at good price. In fact it would be a bit cheaper then recommendend socket 754 main boards.
What do you guys think about socket 939 main boards?
Abit itself seems to be good brand have read many good stuff about their earlier Iterations of different motherboard chipsets.
So if socket 939 is not too modern for win98 gaming the abit might be alternative to the above mentioned sock 754 boards.
For win98 the best thing to get (in my humble opinion) if you want to go high end is a Geforce 4 Titanium. The Ti4200 will play anything from that time period even at high resolutions.
The 9700 was a great card but it's rarer then a Geforce 4 Ti and possibly more expensive (haven't checked prices in the last 3 or so years). If you can find one I'd say take it over the 9600 Pro. It works with older versions of catalyst as well witch might provide better compatibility with some games.
Nvidia FX 6xxx cards have their uses as well, but I'd only recommend those for hybrid 98/xp builds or running some games with misleading system requirements (like Dungeon Keeper 2, Black and White, etc) at very high resolutions.
Thanks for sharing your opinion about the gefore 4 4200 ti. Playing all games from the late win 98 peroid in high resolution sounds excatly what I am looking for.
The prices of the geforce 4 4200 are also very attractive which is another big pro.
The discussion about potential problems when using too "new" mbs for win 98 gaming is interesting and i also would not mind to use a socket 462 and not a socket 754 or 739 if is really necessary.
But in general a socket 754 board is more attractiv for me because having a more modern mb might come in handy to try out different powerful cpu.
I need to resesarch a bit more before I make my final decision.
There are many good offers for both offers on ebay kleinanzeigen (I am from Austria so getting stuff from germany would be the cheapest way to get stuff)
Socket 462 can be very cheap on that plattform.
That one for example would be the cheapest
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/mainbo … 593491-225-9098
i am not sure if would be worth a purchase though. it says that has a on boad graphics unit and that's not what i am looking for because i am not sure if I can turn of the integrated graphics unit in the bios to use a real gpu.