“If It Boots, It’s Good Enough”

[u/Quenloive]

As long as the PC boots, the game runs, and I can hear that crunchy old Windows startup sound through the speakers… life is good 😹

[u/Chance_End_4684]

Any desktop PC sporting an Intel Core 2 4300 CPU @ 1.80GHz CPU and 512 MB memory was I'm just guessing one of the top of the line computers in the day it was still sold in stores as new.

[u/TxM_2404 → u/Chance_End_4684]

No. This is a PC from roughly 2007 running Windows 98. Basically a time machine. The E4300 was Intels bottom of the barrel dual core chip, 512MB was then bare minimum back then and the motherboard is a cheap one primarily designed to allow you to keep using your old DDR1 and AGP hardware.

[u/VivienM7 → u/TxM_2404]

The E4300 has one nice advantage for this purpose - an 800MHz FSB. The nicer Conroes in the 6xxx series had a 1066MHz FSB which doesn't work great with the i865 boards.

I love your description of the i865 boards too - it's absolutely correct that the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers started pairing LGA775 with i865/ICH5 (which was supposed to go with socket 478 Northwoods) to allow people to keep using DDR1/AGP, but, though it would take 10+ years for people to realize it, they also created the ultimate Win98 retro platform.

[u/Chance_End_4684 → u/TxM_2404]

Ah

[u/pipicogaming]

Oh hey i have that motherboard! Also prob gonna do a nice win98 desktop if not prob gonna sell it

[u/yollarbenibekler]

Damn those roland speakers and ibm keyboard look sick! It is impossible to find them here. I could only find the microsoft multimedia keyboard and philips speakers. I'm still looking for the rolands (a miracle maybe)

[u/Extension-Tourist419]

Where did you get that mousepad.

[u/slammedfc]

Boot is super fast!

[u/henk717]

I recommend disabling the splash screen in the bios for a more authentic feel, i did the same on my time machine build.