It's not worth the slightly minor speedup imo.

I say it's worth it. It might not be able to run every windows 98 game but most shoulld run. A few games might complain about a dll missing. It is worth it.

The biggest benefit is to low memory machines, but then you can just stick in more RAM. I always found it to be noticeably less stable with a number of things broken, too. You can re-add some of the missing components to fix some of the broken things, but then you get less of the minimal speed boost.

As leileilol said, not worth it. Just max out the RAM.

From what I have read, Windows 9x has a bug that prevents it from starting up if you have more than 512MB in the system. This bug can be overcome if you "add the following line to the [VCache] section of your win.ini file: MaxFileCache = 524288." However, is it really worth it to have 1GB of RAM in a BX motherboard system that will not be running 2000/XP or have a speed greater than 1.13GHz?

You are talking about a later machine than I was thinking of. If you stick in 128 megs, I see no point in 98 Lite.

yes, even if you go to the limit of 512, you don't need more than that for normal Win9x things.
I do have to say that I have mostly fond memories of 98lite, I had been using it since shortly after it was first heard of. And it did work fine for me up to and including ME. I don't remember too many problems but then again I always loved to tinker my system to death anyway 😀
Nowadays I wouldn't bother anymore so I advice against using it 😀

Yeah if you've never used it before, it will take extra hours of tweaking to get it figured out. I'd just stick with Win98SE. That's how I've always ended up going even after trying out 98lite a few times.