Very nice! Should play Unreal Tournament flawlessly. I'm kinda curious as to why you used RDRAM in this build, though.

How stable is it in 9x with that Rdram based chipset?
I have 1 socket 478 P4 that uses RDRAM and its, not a pleasant board to use.
So much so I haven't tried to reassemble it in many years.

Sutekh94 wrote:

Very nice! Should play Unreal Tournament flawlessly. I'm kinda curious as to why you used RDRAM in this build, though.

They never manufactured any stable SD-Ram versions of this board.
And this was all I could get my hands on at the time.

AlphaWing wrote:

How stable is it in 9x with that Rdram based chipset?
I have 1 socket 478 P4 that uses RDRAM and its, not a pleasant board to use.
So much so I haven't tried to reassemble it in many years.

I have to report that back later. Just finished it today. Actually only build 2 hours ago.

Have fun 🤣 !
I wouldn't be surprised if its not as finicky with the P-III.

That is a truly 1999 setup. It looks almost exactly like mine, which I bought in 1999. It has an Intel SE440BX-2 mobo with a P3 @ 450 Mhz and 768 MB of RAM. VGA is a period correct Leadtech Winfast A-250 Ultra Graphics card. Running Windows 98 SE of course! 😎

Cool! I hope you did not cut your fingers. I always used to cut my fingers on clone mini towers. And I cut my fingers again on one in June when I picked 2 up from an estate sale. I gave them away. I prefer desktops because they stack. 🤣

Leadtek A250 is a geforce 4 ti4600 right? That's a 2002 card (and awesome) but not exactly a 1999 correct card....

The op's system has the correct 1999 card.

I have been testing this out a little. Still fiddeling about drivers for the GFX.
3D-Mark-99 and UT99 will not go into 3D.
Have been using nvidia drivers 5X throug 7X. No luck until now.

Have been sucking all drivers from phills computerlab now.
About to try those out.

Any advice on wich nVidia driver I should go for?

Det 3's 6.xx series are what I use, for TNT-GF2 in 9x.
They produce the best 3dmark scores.
https://driverscollection.com/?H=Detonator%20 … SS=Windows%20ME
Problem is don't think they have the installer version, but its the only links with them I know of anymore.
12.41's are also all around stable.
You can probably go as high as the 30's with a TNT2. Not sure where they cut-off, I don't use anything past 30.82 if its a GF2 or less. In 9x.

My advice for Nvidia drivers is to pick a driver half a year or so after whatever you're running. Driver development was like the wild west back in the days with everything focussing on squeezing more performance out for whatever was hip at the time.

Just did some benchmarking, using the various drivers and 3D-Mark99...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13450020/ … MarkResults.doc

meljor wrote:

Leadtek A250 is a geforce 4 ti4600 right? That's a 2002 card (and awesome) but not exactly a 1999 correct card....

The op's system has the correct 1999 card.

OMG I forgot that! 😊

brostenen wrote:

Samsung 40 gig PATA drive, jumped to a 32 gigabyte drive.

Why did you change it into a 32 GB hard drive?

Very nice build! I have a build around the same board, it's very nice 😀
Though personally I wouldn't use a Codegen PSU though

Dreamer_of_the_past wrote:

Why did you change it into a 32 GB hard drive?

I did it, just to make shure, that Win98 could use the "whole" drive in one single parition.
Not that it is better or worse. I just like my builds this way.
If I had a 120 gig Seagate, I would do it with SeaTools as well.
First of all. It is a compatibility wise decision I made. 😉

Tetrium wrote:

Very nice build! I have a build around the same board, it's very nice 😀
Though personally I wouldn't use a Codegen PSU though

Yeah I know. It was the best that I have at the moment. Else I would not do it too.
Besides noise, it seems to work like a charm.

brostenen wrote:

I did it, just to make shure, that Win98 could use the "whole" drive in one single parition. Not that it is better or worse. I j […]
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Dreamer_of_the_past wrote:

Why did you change it into a 32 GB hard drive?

I did it, just to make shure, that Win98 could use the "whole" drive in one single parition.
Not that it is better or worse. I just like my builds this way.
If I had a 120 gig Seagate, I would do it with SeaTools as well.
First of all. It is a compatibility wise decision I made. 😉

Windows 98 should work fine with disks up to 64GB (wihtout mods). No need to jumper a 40GB drive down to 32

Billyray520 wrote:

meljor wrote:

Leadtek A250 is a geforce 4 ti4600 right? That's a 2002 card (and awesome) but not exactly a 1999 correct card....

The op's system has the correct 1999 card.

OMG I forgot that! 😊

Other choices for correct GFX cards, would be Voodoo3 or geForce-256.
Even geForce-2 is incorrect, as it was launced in the first half of 2000.
Though it would be nice if it was a 99-card.