First post, by soviet conscript
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the last win98 pc I had was based on a AMD k6-3 450 which was good but lacked some power, simcity 3000 crawled on it so I had a spare 1ghz pentium mb and decided to throw together something abit more powerful as yet it is unfinished but heres what i have. I'm trying to keep it roughly era correct so nothing really beyond 2002 but I may consider stretching that a little as the build finishes.
M790MR duel CPU motherboard
Pentium 3 1ghtz
256MB sdram
Geforce 3 ti400
SB audiology 2 zs
I removed 1 cpu since I figured win98 does not support it and it would only cause more heat and drain power. I don't care for the placment of my cpu in this case either but with 3 fans plus the cpu fan I think cooling is going to be fine.
I still need a 3 1/2 floppy drive and I would like to bring the RAM up to 512MB and perhaps upgrade the cpu to a Pentium 3 1.13ghz chip with the 512k cashe but i'm not 100% sure the MB supports it.
Simcity plays much more acceptably one this PC but still is a bit sluggish and has a few hiccups in the intro video (not like the k6-III though). i'm hoping the cpu upgrade and ram upgrade will help that. I was also considering a geforce 4 but i'm not sure how much it would help.