First post, by Vaudane
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First of all, apologies if this or variants of have been asked before. There always seems to be 50 pages of posts that never quite answer what I'm asking.
Planning out my y2000 retro build, sticking with a pentium III coppermine 1G, the long term plan is a voodoo 5 5500 but will be sticking probably with something like a Riva TNT2 or thereabouts until I can convince myself to spend the money. I understand that windows 98se is the go-to version if you want to potentially play dos-based games too as it was the last version which was built on dos instead of having a "prompt". And that video drivers are also usually stable for this version of windows with the exception of ATI.
Secondly, I understand DOS games can be finicky with PCI sound cards, so an ISA sound card is preferable.
Thirdly I from what I gather pretty much every board produced <2002 will have succumbed to capacitor plague and so will need recapped, and possibly new FETs fitted too.
From these assumptions, is the Asus CUBX board with its BX440 chipset any good? I have read over post [1] and while that more focuses more on Tualatin CPUs, I can see that the main drawbacks with the board are ones I was going to compensate for anyway such as lack of Ultra ATA with a pci card. I also see the bx440 chipset only supports AGP1.0 but the motherboard supports AGP2.0 or have I gone wrong somewhere?