First post, by tayyare
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I put my hands on an Intel P4 socket 478 board (D865PERL) and decided to dismantle one of my PIII builds to rebuild it as a P4 system. This would be my first P4 retro attempt (not counting recent failed attempt at a P4 HTPC - Dell GX260 SFF).
I want this build to play with some hardware that I have but not installed in anything, especially Matrox Mystique 220 with Rainbow Runner Studio and ATI All in Wonder 9600 Pro. For all the other components I plan using whatever available on hand.
So the basic plan is, an XP + Windows 98 (or ME) double boot machine, booting PCI Mystique for Windows 98 and AGP All-in-Wonder for XP. I don't decide yet how to solve the RAM dilemma, though (buy the W98 memory patch or limit the amount of physical RAM to 1GB).
During the times (around 2004-2005), I had a P4 for a short time till the mobo died (about a little bit more than a year, just enough time to warranty period runs out) and then I went for a Athlon 64, so, to say the truth, my P4 era experience is mostly AMD based. This means I'm not well versed with this era, so here comes the questions:
- As far as I see, the difference between 865G and 865PE chipsets is only the built in graphics capabilities of 865G, which is not important to me. Based on this, can we say that an Intel D865GBF board has no significant plusses compared to a Intel D865PERL board? (my board comes with no 1394 or advanced sound options, but I don't care).
- I have a small selection of PCI sound boards. The only interesting enough ones from the bunch are Sound Blaster Audigy LS (SB0310) and Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital (SB0220). Are there any significant difference between them? Which one do you recommend?
- What is the performance difference in real life, between, say, a 3.0GHz CPU and a 3.2 or 3.4 GHZ CPU? A same speed CPU with 512K and 1M cache?
- All the drivers and documents still available from the Intel support site. There are both Windows 98/ME and Windows 2000/XP drivers for everything but SATA (SATA drivers are only for 2000/XP). Does that mean that I can't use onboard SATA for Windows 98 or else?
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000