Depends what you want to play on it. If you want to run 1995-1998 software and games and want to use early dos games, a socket 7 AMD K6-2 or K6-3 rig or a slow socke A machine (up to 800MHz) is what you want. If you want to run newer games and software (up to 2002-2003) go for a fast socket A machine.

For a slower rig i would recommend to go for a pentium II or III build..
For a faster more 2000 year build i would recommend to get an Athlon XP or Pentium 4.

A slot 1 motherboard isnt hard to find if you dont have to much whishes.

Dont know where you live, but perhaps this is something for you:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-SE440BX-2-MOTHE … W8AAOSwgQ9V6ZsV

Or just look for Intel 440BX chipset.

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For a slower rig i would recommend to go for a pentium II or III build..
For a faster more 2000 year build i would recommend to get an Athlon XP or Pentium 4.

A slot 1 motherboard isnt hard to find if you dont have to much whishes.

Dont know where you live, but perhaps this is something for you:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-SE440BX-2-MOTHE … W8AAOSwgQ9V6ZsV

Or just look for Intel 440BX chipset.

If I were to try and buy that board, it would cost me 39$ item cost + 58$ shipping. For 10-15$ I can source a complete working socket 370, socket A or socket 478 PC locally.

a good system would be a socket A board with an Athlon 1000 , should be more than enough (depends on the graphics card of course) for games even in 2001.

you could get something faster like an Athlon 1400 , but you need some very good cooling for that one (very fast though)

For Socket A, Palomino or Thoroughbred are period correct as well and much less of a room heater than the old T-Bird cpus.

Yeah, I'd recommend cheating a bit with AMD boards and using a later one with the 4-Pin 12V connector if you plan on installing a faster CPU. A lot of older boards were not capable of powering them properly and had stability issues when made to run them. Unfortunately, almost everyone on this planet board crap motherboards so finding a good one is not so easy these days.

Avoid the nForce chipsets, you will not enjoy them at all.

You may, of course, be sacrificing DOS compatibility but if you are only running Win98 software that isn't going to matter very much.

DOS (7.1) should be fine. I've run MPXPLAY on FreeDOS using a KT400, AXP 1700+ setup. Native sound support. Dos games will be more problematic, of course, mostly due to PCI only audio.