Having trouble sorting out what options there are in the top of the line for a Win98 100FSB system in ATX or EATX

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Reply 20 of 23, by stamasd

Posted on 2016-10-12, 12:16

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Personally I've had stability problems with Nforce-based motherboards. I don't consider them an option for a headache-free system.

I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O

Reply 21 of 23, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-10-12, 15:01

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I tended to avoid due to weird memory addressing problems with Grub at the time. LILO worked okay, though.

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Reply 22 of 23, by candle_86

Posted on 2016-10-12, 15:19

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for 9x avoid Nforce, great for NT Kernal, a pain in the butt for 9x. But the VIA K8T800 and K8T890 are excelent, and I've seen K8T890 with PHenom II support, so there are very fast 9x options out there.

Reply 23 of 23, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-10-12, 15:50

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One of these days I'll put a Sempron 145 in my K8T890 board to see how fast it is in Win98.

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