Reply 20 of 57, by RaverX
From my experience WIndows 98 is not a very stable system, but it helps a lot if you have a Intel platform, I mean a motherboard with Intel chipset and Intel CPU, especially BX440 and PII or PIII seems to work much better than other platforms. Worst (again, from my experience) seems to be PIII on VIA chipsets, tested on a lot of motherboards, I would always get blue screens, freezes, etc and after a while the entire system would become unusable. Socket 7 is decent, especially on Intel + Pentium/MMX. Socket A (KT133 + Athlon) is also decent, but not 100% stable. Slot A - usable, but quite unstable. Both Slot A and socket A works almost flawless on XP, so I wouldn't blame the hardware.
Bottom line: if you want to make a Windows 98 system try to get a good motherboard (Asus, Abit, etc) with BX440 chipset and a PII or a PIII CPU (100 Mhz bus). Also avoid SB Live. Max 512 MB, can be used with 1 GB with a patch, but I don't recommend. Video - it doesn't matter too much, but I would get V3 or TNT2, try to avoid Rage 128/Pro, the drivers for those cards seems bo be buggy and can cause problems.