Hello, hoping that I'm not hijacking the thread. I stumbled unto this one while searching for Socket 478 benchmarks.
I have to admit that I'm not too retro HDW savvy, in 2020 during the pandemic, I started to gather old computer parts out of nostalgia, mainly to build gaming PCs for Win98 and to find something, if not the same, resembling an IBM Aptiva with Win95 which was my first home PC.
At the start I couldn't find 'proper' Win98 compatible machines or parts, so I went with the alternative to build P4 machines for Win98SE gaming (Phil's lab).
Anyhow, I ended up with 9 different socket 478 mobos, and I'm trying to decide which will be the best to retain, perhaps to keep 2-3 tops, so I was wondering if you guys could give me some tips, like e.g., which chipsets to look out for, etc. As subsequently I did get ahold of various socket 370 and slot 1 for my DOS/Win95-98 gaming, I will be using the socket 478 machine(s) for Windows XP games.
Here's the list:
1. HP Compaq Evo [OEM]
2. Dell Optiplex GX270 sff [OEM]
3. MSI HETIS 865GV-E LITE [OEM]
4. INTEL D865PERL [ATX ff]
5. Gigabyte GA-8IEX Series P4 Titan 533 [ATX ff]
6. Asus P4P800-SE I865PE [ATX ff]
7. AsRock P4VM800 [microATX ff]
8. Gigabyte GA-8LD533 [microATX ff]
9. Asus P4BGL-MX [microATX ff]
The Asus P4BGL-MX seems to have some issues, I couldn't manage to go through installing Windows, will try and swap the CPU.