First post, by Cypher321
My dad is going to be retiring (in theory, 🤣) early next year and so as an early retirement gift/x-mas gift, I'm planning out a build for him so that he can fill some of his new found time with some quality gaming. In order to have as much versatility as possible, I'm planning on making this a dual boot Win98SE/WinXP which should cover most of the games he'd be interested in. I don't have much experience with dual boot builds and managing such a wide range of hardware needs so I'm looking on getting some guidance on where to take this build. Specifically, I'd like this build to be able to cover from C&C Tiberium Dawn to Supreme Commander - it would be great to include Supreme Commander 2 but it seems like the CPU requirements might be a bit out of reach. Budget for anything I don't already have in inventory is a few hundred bucks. Here's what I have planned so far:
- CPU: Looking at an Athlon 64 Toledo as I saw a video from Phil where he did a Win98SE build using an Athlon 64 so I figure this would be my best bet for getting the most CPU that I can.
- Motherboard: Some flavor of A8N-SLI - I love ASUS as a rule but open to suggestions.
- GPU: 6800 (Ultra?) - last NVidia GPU to support Win9X so seems like obvious choice. Will plan on using AGP for Win98.
- Memory: Would having more than 512 mb be a problem for the Win98 portion of the dual boot? My default would be to put in 4gb to max out for winxp.
- Case: Whatever I find
- PSU: Something modern - there shouldn't be any current issues with the Athlon 64, correct?
- Harddrive: Would a single HDD with partitions work best or an OS drive and storage drive?