building a cheese-machine to run Win98SE only

[ManDooM]

Cool info people. A couple things:

I was dual booting with my current system you see in my sig but it was a headache trying to get 98 to be nice with all the gizmos I have installed like my Leadtek TV card and such. I'm not a Win98-head so it was miserable for me. I kept getting hardware problems that could be fixed when I finally found how to install the drivers right, but then it would just cause other problems. I gave up on that idea and decided to go dedicated with a KVM switch.

As far as video cards, 32 megs isn't enough for 98 games (at least not on the card I had originally). While I was waiting for my 9800 pro to arrive I used a 7500 32mb card that was being bogged down by Dungeon Keeper 2. I had to dumb down the graphics for it, so I don't want to make that mistake.

And you don't think that dual channel will make a difference? It may not be needed to play them, but it certainly will make it faster, won't it? The price would be the same either way I go, so why not

 

[ManDooM]

And could you enlighten me as to which games (or any applications) on 98 would use more than 256mb?

 

[stevty2889]

Honestly there are 2 options which are MUCH cheaper than building an entire machine just for windows 98. You can dual boot, or you could get Virtual PC to run a virtual windows 98 machine, from within windows 2000/xp. I am running windows XP and use virtual PC to run my windows 98 games that won't run on XP, and it works perfectly. Plus several of the games you listed will run fine on an XP machine in compatiblility mode.

 

[ManDooM]

How do you activate compatability mode?

And what's virtual PC?

 

[fireontheway]

Right click on the icon,properties,hit the compatibility tab.Then check the compatibility mode box and from the drop down arrow select the desired OS.

 

[Kenny1234]

http://www.dumpinggoods.com/du...D0089&cc=&tpc=
Cheaper mobo

 

[John P]

I did basically the same thing you are to run some of my kids older games but wanted to make the machine as compact as possible and use some old SDRAM I had laying around. I picked up one of these:

Silverstone Berserker SST-GD98EC2 TINY/MICRO ATX C RETAIL

And one of these:

MSI KM2M Combo-L

I picked up the motherboard refurbed from Newegg for about $40. Threw in some old SDRAM, a T-Bird 1Ghz a buddy gave me, and Geforce 2 MX I had laying around and put together a nice, quiet, upgradeable little system.

 

[Jeff7]

Heck with that all - get an nForce2 IGP board. No need for a videocard, sound card, NIC, any of that. If you can find 128MB DDR sticks, get two to improve the video performance.
That will be cheap.

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