First post, by Hamby
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Just dug this motherboard out of my closet...
Gigabyte GA-8I865GME-775
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-8I865 … E-775-rev-1x#ov
I'm curious if it could be used as a retro Win98SE/gaming platform?
as is, it has Intel extreme graphics 2 video, which probably sucks compared to its contemporaries, but that's good.
AC'97 audio which I'm guessing is fairly compatible with early Win 95/98 games and software
it has both IDE and SATA controllers
It has 1gb ram and a 2.8ghz Pentium 4 cpu in it.. actually I think it's a dual-core cpu. Which I guess would be a problem for DOS / Win 95/98SE
My question is; would this be able to run DOS and win 95/98 software/games?
The motherboard says it has AGP 8X graphics... so I should be able to stick my FX-5500 AGP card (the one I can't get to work in my super socket 7 system) and have it work... probably not as well as the built-in Intel, but more compatible.
I know it could run XP (that's what it originally ran.)
In a multiboot config, I think I might want Win98SE / WinXP / earlier version of Linux (maybe BSD... or maybe Rasbian? That'd be interesting). Would that even be possible?
The sad part is... no ISA slots, so no Awe32.
I guess my question is, is this system located well as a bridge between win95 era and late win xp era, or would it be more headache than it's worth?
(I was digging around for the other socket 7 system I knew I had when I came across this... found it... 75mhz cpu (won't take the K6-2, already tried months ago)... no agp slot. )