First post, by senrew
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I need to do a write up for my other machines at some point, but since this is the one I'm currently building, I figured it'd be appropriate to start here.
Pics to come.
Purpose:
The purpose of this machine is to run DX7 and DX8 games only. I've pretty much built all of my rigs based on the need to support certain games as per their DirectX requirements. Seems kinda silly, but this has led to the least problems for me so far.
Hardware:
MSI KT4V (MSI-6712)
Athlon XP 1800+
RAM will be whatever maximum I can finagle out of my box o' ram
GeForce4 Ti 4600
XP SP1
Thoughts:
I have a Barton 2800+ chip I might be tempted to swap for the chip that's currently on the board. I'll make that decision once I explore a bit and see how this performs with whatever games I have that happen to fall within this machine's purview.
Questions:
1) I haven't decided on a sound card as of yet. The board itself contains a "RealTek ALC650 6-channel audio" controller onboard. From what I've read, this seems to be decent for the time period. I also have an Audigy SE, and some Phillips sound card that I pulled out of another salvaged machine. I've never even heard of the Phillips-made card, but reviews seem to favor it I guess? It's a PSC604. I think I still have my SB Live! 5.1 card lying around somewhere as well too, but I think that may be a bit too old for the period of games this is supposed to run. Any suggestions for picking one of the options listed so far?
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B