ITT: we build the most overkill Win9x retro gaming rig

[Anonymous No.4276067]

>Intel 865G Mobo
>P4 3.0 GHZ (deactivated HT)
>512 DDR 400
>NVidia Quadro FX 4000 (same NV40 chip from the 6800 Ultra)
>AOpen Yamaha XG YMF 744 sound card
Is this extreme enough?

[Anonymous No.4276130]

>>4276067
>mfw dat playlist

Do all scandinavians have such shit taste in music or just Michael Ole Olsen here?

[Anonymous No.4276131]

>>4276067
>Pentium 4
>For a Windows 9x gayming rig
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.4276134]

>>4276067
No, P4 is overkill. More problems then its worth.

>>4276130
Spotted the underage.

[Anonymous No.4276138]

>>4276067
For literally what purpose? also

>rig
fuck off

[Anonymous No.4276140]

>>4276067
A high end Pentium 3 would work way better
Also, only one sound card? I want A3D and EAX, both
Plus a set of Voodoo 2's

[Anonymous No.4276141]

>>4276067
why?
if you can afford proper hardware, then why buy the p4? its only good because its cheaper on jewbay
pretty hipster excuse though as good p3 bodes cost pennies here

[Anonymous No.4276142]

>>4276134
There are patches that enable windows 95 to run with higher than the max CPU (which I think was a pentium 3?)

[Anonymous No.4276147]

>>4276141
why? the whole point of such a computer would bt to be passevly compadible, without any hacks or mods

else just play on your current computer

[Anonymous No.4276149]

>>4276142
There's no need though. Pentium 3 will be fine for Win9x games.
Pentium 4's will have more compatibility issues then it's worth, no real performance improvement if you already have a good AGP card.
Even though OPs chipset is pretty Win9x friendly, you will run into other problems with proper 3dfx compatibility if you want to use Voodoo 2's, etc.

[Anonymous No.4276150]

>>4276142
why? the whole point of such a computer would bt to be passevly compadible, without any hacks or mods

else just play on your current computer

[Anonymous No.4276151]

>>4276067
>Win9x retro gaming rig
>rig
>P4 3.0 GHZ (deactivated HT)
>win9x
>pentium 4

[Anonymous No.4276159]

>>4276134
>underage
I turned 38 last friday.

That's simply a horrible selection by anyone's standards.

[Anonymous No.4276162]

@4276159

[Anonymous No.4276194]

>>4276067

>las ketchup

jesus christ

[Anonymous No.4276245]

>>4276067
OP, disregard the naysayers. I've got more or less the same set-up as you and it plays nearly everything my Pentium 200MMX does with the exception of a few games that were compiled with TurboPascal that can be easily patched.

For anything it can't run, neither can the 200MMX, you need a 486 or start disabling caches and underclocking your CPU.

[Anonymous No.4276410]

>>4276245
We are talking about a Win9x games machine not DOS.
Pentium 4 for DOS is a bigger disaster than it is for Windows 9x games.

[Anonymous No.4277817]

>>4276410
Anything that won't run on a Pentium 4 in DOS will also not run on anything past 200mhz. Win9x is barely a problem either, chipset drivers exist, AGP Video Card driver support is good. I hate Pentium 4's desu but they are cheaper than building a Slot 1 or Socket 370 rig and no worse except if you want to use older AGP cards like the Voodoo 3.

[Anonymous No.4277908]

>>4276067
Get an audigy 2 zs

[Anonymous No.4277990]

>>4276067
>>(deactivated HT)
Not sure why you'd bother, the OS needs to support hyperthreading to use it.

[Anonymous No.4279284]

>>4276067
I had something somewhat sketched out years ago...
Athlon 64 FX-57 + Radeon 9800
Board has to be something with a VIA chipset, cause the nForce ones have problems with 98.
Never got around to buy the components, tho.

Would've been awesome. I think that's also the limit you can go to with official driver support.
After that it's trail and error. With hacking you can also make Core 2 Duos or Core i5, but it's still hit or miss with the boards...

[Anonymous No.4279307]

Don't workstation cards perform worse in games than equivalent gaming cards because drivers aren't optimized for gaming?

[Anonymous No.4279446]

>>4276162
Meant for >>4276159

[Anonymous No.4279459]

>>4276067
>P4 3.0 GHZ (deactivated HT)

These things draw a lot of power. And won't most games push every spare cycle to maintain vsync?

[Anonymous No.4279515]

>>4276067
Enjoy games that run way too fast due to framerate issues

[Anonymous No.4279662]

>>4277817
>Anything that won't run on a Pentium 4 in DOS will also not run on anything past 200mhz.
You use a 486 for DOS. With turbo.

>Win9x is barely a problem either, chipset drivers exist, AGP Video Card driver support is good. I hate Pentium 4's desu but they are cheaper than building a Slot 1 or Socket 370 rig and no worse except if you want to use older AGP cards like the Voodoo 3.
It's still shittier then a proper Pentium 3 build for Windows 9x gaymes.
So yes,the _only_ argument is that you don't want to spend money on proper hardware.

[Anonymous No.4279930]

>>4279662
Try playing Blood or Duke3D on a 486 at 1280x1024.

[Anonymous No.4280065]

>>4279930
>at 1280x1024.
Why? It's a DOS machine, you won't have a 1280x1024 monitor anyways, just a nice VESA 1024x768 one.
Maybe you should stick to emulation and source ports.

[Anonymous No.4280072]

>>4276067
Done.

[Anonymous No.4280279]

>Windows 9x
>Pentium 4
>521mb ram
>nvidia quadro
What the fuck are you doing? Here's a better suggestion
>64mb-120mb ram
>Pentium 3 if 98, Pentium 2 if 95
>3dfx voodoo 3 to 5
>AWE64
>CD drive or DVD drive if you really want to play DVDs and play the little games found on movies that no one cares about
There you go, you have a good retro gayman pc that should run just about anything from the mid to late 90s, and won't be a huge power consumer or space heater.

[Anonymous No.4280457]

My Win 9x pc has a
>socket 370 Celleron at 1.1 GHz
>radeon 9250(its a pci only mobo, no agp)
>512 MB ram

It runs max payne fine.

[Anonymous No.4280491]

>>4276067
Those specs reminds me of my old retro build.

P4 3.4GHz
NVidia Quadro FX 4500 (pic has the GTX460 temporarily)
4GB DDR 400
Creative X-Fi Platinum
320GB HD

[Anonymous No.4280514]

>>4276067
Pentium 3, 256MB DDR, Geforce FX 5900 128MB VRAM

[Anonymous No.4280539]

>>4276067
>Rivers of Babylon

[Anonymous No.4280549]

Shit man I don't even need to build one, I'll just hook up my old Compaq Deskpro.

[Anonymous No.4280646]

>>4280065
m8 my CRT did 1600x1200 back in the day, kys

[Anonymous No.4280870]

>>4280646
>m8 I read on wikipedia that 1600x1200 CRTs existed in the mid-90's so I'm right
FTFY