First post, by retroboy87
I have an MSI MS-6590 motherboard, Athlon XP 3000+, and 3GB of DDR 400Mhz RAM (the max this motherboard supports).
At first I was going to make this an XP build, but I realized that it's underpowered on the CPU and GPU (AGP only) side for late XP era games, so I decided to make a Sandy Bridge XP build instead.
At first I was going to use the most powerful/recent AGP graphics card I could find for under $50, but now I've decided on the Geforce FX-Series, for maximum compatibility with pre-DX9 games (table fog and 8-bit palettized textures).
I bought an AGP FX 5500 on eBay for $25.
Should I make this a Windows 2000 or XP SP2 build, so I can use all of my RAM?
Or should I downgrade to 512MB-1GB and use 98SE?