emosun wrote:Xp will actually run on anything with a pentium 1 and 64mb of ram or higher.
98 would be more suited , but xp will work totally fine.
Running XP on anything other then a fast tualatin or early socket A / 478 machine with DDR is masochism. My advice for slot 1 / socket 370 is - stick with win98se.
Also the 9600 will be severely bottlenecked by the slow p3 CPU. A more appropriate card for that machine would be a Geforce 2 pro / gts, GF 3 ti or GF4 MX. On the ATi side a 7500 or 9200 / 9250 would do fine.
I've recently come to the conclusion that there is absolutely no benefit from running a faster video card on a slow machine. In an attempt to play Dungeon Keeper 2 @ 1600x1200 on my 1400MHz tualatin, I moved from a GF 4 ti4200 all the way up to a 6800 incrementally, with little to no performance improvement. There's way to much stuff going on on-screen for the CPU and CPU to AGP bus to keep up with the video card.
I'll open a topic on this when I have some free time.