First post, by RetroFyre
From what I can tell, the upper end of this would be a slot 2 Xeon 900mhz. However, I'm having trouble finding much in the way of boards with ISA and AGP. This is for a glide build, so 100FSB seems to be what I need to really focus on. That and I want at least 1 ISA slot, 2 would be nice. 1 AGP is also I think a must for this build. My feelings are, since I don't need Voodoo 1 support, that a 5500 will be the most enjoyable card. I'd like to run glide games that haven't yet been ported at their native resolutions with FSAA.
1 Isa I THINK is enough. That would be a AWE32 (or similar) using the roland port to run a SC88\SC55 and memory expansion for soundfonts. I'd like to know whether anyone thinks I should instead stick with the Aureal with a daughtercard and roland unit to boot.
That being said, it is extremely difficult to narrow mother boards down by FSB and equally difficult to find slot 2 boards. I'd like to lean towards slot 2 unless I have a compelling reason not to, because they are just so damn sexy. Sex appeal is of course paramount when dealing with obsolete machinery.
I list this as a 98SE build, but it's a late dos to 98se build. For basically all the ported stuff, I have no problem running that on much nicer machines. But one thing that really hasn't been done right IMO is glide emulation. I can't put my finger on it, but it never looks as good. That I think is one part not running native resolution, one part programming and another part AA. But either way, this box is mainly a glide build. Doom, GLQuake, UT etc all have port options to be run modern.
If possible I'd love a dual or quad socket board so that I could run Windows 2000 for no real good reason. I'm posting to Nekochan right?