ux-3 wrote:The Socket A offers another tempting ability: Using an XP-M, you can boot anywhere between 500 and 2000 MHz. In Win98, you can throttle down to 300 MHz. And when you kill level 1 cache, the machine fakes a 286-486 quite well, depending on clock.
Well, i can put together an ASUS and a Athlon XP 2400 (i think it is) and the motherboard has win98 drivers. Only pci slots though... So, no SB AWE64 Gold... Can put dual Voodoo2 and a Kyro card, a monster MX300 with yamaha synth, but DOS games sound quality are affected by this.
So, there is never a "golden" build...
My best shot is the P2B, perhaps with an adapter to Socket 370 and i must find a good, fast p3.
My current setup is:
Asus P2B + P3 500MHz
256MB Kingston PC133
Hercules 3DProphet 4500 64MB + Voodoo 2 12MB
SB AWE64 Gold + Roland Sound Canvas SC-155
Adaptec SCSI + 10GB 10k rpm HDD
But for Win98 gaming it lacks horsepower...