Hey Shadowknight, what are the rest of the specs of your retro rig? I built myslef one a fe months ago. I used a MSi 6167 Slot A board with a 800 Mhz Athlon proc, 128 mb of pc133, Rage Fury pro gpu, and a Aureal A3D Vortex 2 SQ2500 soundcard. All running under win 98se.
I was intending to use an old P2 board/CPU/RAM for the 95 box, but it won't even power on. I'll have to get something off Ebay, probably either a high-end P2 or P3.
The retro machine I'm building right now is for Windows 98 (SE) games that required a lot of power; I got a P4 3.0ghz, 512mb RAM (due to Win98 memory limitation), a Shuttle board (I'm out of town, so I don't remember the model), sound is using the built-in sound card for the Shuttle board, which works under 98, a spare Antec P180 case to house it all, a $5 used HP DVD IDE drive to read disks, an old Western Digital IDE drive I had laying around, a Hercules voodoo 1 (with 2d built in) and 2 12mb voodoo 2s for SLI. I'm using an old Antec PSU of some sort to power it all. I also got a Scythe Ninja for silent cooling. However, when I tried to put it together this week, I found out the Ninja DOESN'T include a P4 mounting bracket, as they expect you to use the one used by Intel's cooler. However, the board I had had been in storage for 10 years, and I didnt know I didn't have the bracket already on it. I ordered one off Amazon, and should have it by the end of the week. Also, I think I'm going to go ahead and pick up a Voodoo 5500 this weekend for playing the later 3dfx games.
In all likelihood, the system will probably be too fast for MW2, as I've heard that fast systems keep the jumpjets from recharging, and I use the hell out of those. Worst case scenario, I'll buy a set of part for a high end P2 or P3 and try again. While there are a bunch of older games I have that need Windows 95 or 98 to actually work, this whole project really boils down to wanting to play Mechwarrior 2 voodoo edition, and any other 3dfx games where the glide wrappers leave out some of the graphical improvements compared to actual 3dfx hardware.
If you haven't done it already, you also might want to go here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/91-windows-9x-member-projects/ Some users have been patching Windows 98 long after it went EOL. I'm not sure if they patched it to use more than 512mb, but after you install the patch, you can have more than 512mb without the system going unstable. I think it's primarily to make it easier if you dual-boot with another system,