bitzu101 wrote on 2025-10-30, 19:43:

Thank you , good luck to you as well. […]
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Thank you , good luck to you as well.

The pc you presented above is extremly late win 98. i have something similar , another pc , with socket 462 , amd athlon xp at 1.4 ghz , 512 ram and a 4200 ti. i will make another topic for that one as well when i have time. however , i am running win me on that one.

I think , past 2 ghz , you won t really see a difference in win 9x , however , socket 462 is a brilliant choice because you can go either 9x or xp. i chose win9x because i also have a monster xp machine.

monitor wise , i use a dell fp 2007 , native 4:3 and 1600x1200....

Yeah, that ended up being the goal. I wanted a Win 98 system, still with full driver support, where I would have little to no issues running any software made for Win 98. 😀

Honestly, I have little interest in building anything past Win 98. From XP onward, I'll just run it on my modern system or on a VM if I really want to do so, but there's not much for XP or later I'm interested in that you can't get to run on a modern machine. Now, if I had more room for classic builds, I might think differently, but I have limited space in my little apartment.

I use a Dell LCD as well, not sure on the year, early 2000's. Works great for both my DOS and Win98 system. I just switch between them using a VGA source selector.

bitzu101 wrote on 2025-10-30, 03:51:

do have a few sound cards... A yamaha 724 hardware opl chip... Very fancy... I have a maestro 2, I have a Audigy 2 zs and I have a sound blaster live, and those are the ones I can remember now...

I went with the ess solo because of best in class compatibility and also because I had one back in the day, so more nostalgia than reason.

Both the Audigy 2 or Live have Win98 drivers and would cover EAX.
Fully agree nostalgia is what's most important but no need to remove the ESS Solo, Windows supports multiple PCI soundcards.
and I wouldn't even bother setting up the Creative card for dos use.

StriderTR wrote on 2025-10-30, 21:14:

Yeah, that ended up being the goal. I wanted a Win 98 system, still with full driver support, where I would have little to no is […]
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bitzu101 wrote on 2025-10-30, 19:43:

Thank you , good luck to you as well. […]
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Thank you , good luck to you as well.

The pc you presented above is extremly late win 98. i have something similar , another pc , with socket 462 , amd athlon xp at 1.4 ghz , 512 ram and a 4200 ti. i will make another topic for that one as well when i have time. however , i am running win me on that one.

I think , past 2 ghz , you won t really see a difference in win 9x , however , socket 462 is a brilliant choice because you can go either 9x or xp. i chose win9x because i also have a monster xp machine.

monitor wise , i use a dell fp 2007 , native 4:3 and 1600x1200....

Yeah, that ended up being the goal. I wanted a Win 98 system, still with full driver support, where I would have little to no issues running any software made for Win 98. 😀

Honestly, I have little interest in building anything past Win 98. From XP onward, I'll just run it on my modern system or on a VM if I really want to do so, but there's not much for XP or later I'm interested in that you can't get to run on a modern machine. Now, if I had more room for classic builds, I might think differently, but I have limited space in my little apartment.

I use a Dell LCD as well, not sure on the year, early 2000's. Works great for both my DOS and Win98 system. I just switch between them using a VGA source selector.

I would say you are right.... win 9x era was the one that i remember the most from childhood. It was also the era when win9x was unstable and hat to reinstall once in a while , windows would throw random errors and bsods , etc... but it s because of win 9x we learned computers , we learned to go around problems and we learned how to fix pc's.

When win xp shown up on the market , it was a revolution and was stable and worked without any issues... I rememeber , having to upgrade my pc so i can run win xp without issues.... i was so happy when i did... because of this 2 eras i have multiple retro pc s... 2x win 9x and 2x win xp 32 bit , one from 2004 and another from 2008...

chinny22 wrote on 2025-10-31, 03:18:

Both the Audigy 2 or Live have Win98 drivers and would cover EAX. Fully agree nostalgia is what's most important but no need to […]
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bitzu101 wrote on 2025-10-30, 03:51:

do have a few sound cards... A yamaha 724 hardware opl chip... Very fancy... I have a maestro 2, I have a Audigy 2 zs and I have a sound blaster live, and those are the ones I can remember now...

I went with the ess solo because of best in class compatibility and also because I had one back in the day, so more nostalgia than reason.

Both the Audigy 2 or Live have Win98 drivers and would cover EAX.
Fully agree nostalgia is what's most important but no need to remove the ESS Solo, Windows supports multiple PCI soundcards.
and I wouldn't even bother setting up the Creative card for dos use.

might do , never bothered with the eax stuff that much , but will see... i have so many sound cards... in my win xp build i have the audigy 2 zs... and i also have a x fi pci for another win xp build as well....

A few more pics of the build, the motherboard was recapped and washed. Basically, it s brand new now.

What is the memory performance in Sisoft Sandra 2003? I wonder if BIOS configures the VIA 694X chipset correctly.

bitzu101 wrote on 2025-10-31, 08:34:

A few more pics of the build, the motherboard was recapped and washed. Basically, it s brand new now.

Very cool, I love ABIT boards!

AlexZ wrote on 2025-10-31, 12:51:

What is the memory performance in Sisoft Sandra 2003? I wonder if BIOS configures the VIA 694X chipset correctly.

never checked, will do at some point , when a little bit more time.

the pc runs normal i would say. all the games installed are working at max except morrowind. morrowind is not that smooth at 1600x1200 with everything max... runs ok at 1024x768. i think morrowind was a little bit ahead of it s time...

AlexZ wrote on 2025-10-31, 12:51:

What is the memory performance in Sisoft Sandra 2003? I wonder if BIOS configures the VIA 694X chipset correctly.

it was NOT anything to do with the hardware... DMA mode was not enabled in Windows 95. The pc is blazing fast now , think it s way too overpowered for Win9x...