First post, by AlucarD86
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I am trying to find out what the best hardware would be for Windows 98SE, I know already that it requires the FAT32 filesystem and that the maximum amount of harddrive space can only reach maximum 32GB, or in other words you can't format a partition or harddrive over 32GB !
But what about the RAM memory how much can it really handle ? I am currently using the Asus P3B-F motherboard which is a Slot1 motherboard with a 700MHz coppermine Pentium 3 and I am using 256MB (its actually 2x128MB) of SDRam in total. I want to mention that the Asus P3B-F has 4 SDram slots which I think is pretty awesome since most of those old motherboards only came with memory 2-3 slots. So since I am dualbooting WIn98SE and WinXP from the same system and harddrive I am kinda bottlenecked in Windows XP when it comes to memory since 256MB of SDRam is a little bit to low for WinXP (that one goes up to maximm 4GB I believe) and from the taskmanager I can tell that it eats up my 256MB of ram a lot especially while browsing the internet.
I did some research and found out that Win98 has a max. capacity of 512MB which would mean 2x256 MB memory or 4x128 MB memory installed, my question would be, whats the best Win98 memory setup and for example if I would put in 4x512 MB which would add up to 2GB of memory (I am pretty sure it would run great on WinXP) but what about Win98 would it kick me out with a memory error ?
Also is there a way to trick Win98 in accepting more than 512MB of memory and which memories are the best and most reliable brands ? like Kingston or something like that ?
cheers !
PC Setup: Mainboard ASUS CUBX | CPU Intel Pentium III-S Tualatin 1.4 GHz | Memory 780 MB SDRam | Soundcard Creative SB Audigy SB0160 | GPUs Nvidia FX5900 Ulta Matrox M3D PCI | HDD 2x40 GB WD/Seagate | OS Win98SE and WinXPSP1 in dual boot