98se questions
98se questions
ya its for gaming only. i will make a xp pc too when i find a good price on x79 and an gtx 970.
thx, i'll give it a shot. edited june 6, 2021 by thrasher_565
The E8600 performs better than the P4 651ON 98SE only in specific gaming scenarios. Edited June 6, 2021 by thrasher_565
there a patch for 1 gig. i was having an hard time finding ddr2 800 256mb and when you do there like $40... ya ill get what cpu setting i have in the bios its not much... posable an program might let me over clock more or smoothing. Edited June 6, 2021 by thrasher_565
This topic often arises when discussing SSDs on retro systems, but I think it's not worth the hype. I run a Kingston 128GB A400 in my E5800 powered Windows ME machine just fine. Let's look at a few points: 1) It's running Windows 9X, how many writes does it actually handle? I have a 128GB SSD in my system and 128GB is the maximum size FAT32 can write to. From Windows 9X standards, the drive is essentially endless. Most games install only about 50 megabytes, so you'll read the SSD a lot more than it writes. 2) It's incredibly fast. You've never experienced Windows this way before—especially when it runs on an SSD. My ME build didn't have DMA enabled by default, which made it slow, but once it did, performance skyrocketed because small files meant quicker responses mattered more than speed. Enabling DMA only boosted the speed even further. 3) How affordable are good SSDs for Windows 9X systems? I bought a 128GB Kingston A400 for just CAD$19.99 on Black Friday and ended up saving money by keeping spare drives. I spend more on Sunday night meals than worrying about a device failing in a few years.
Many of us rely on CF cards in older devices thanks to basic CF-IDE adapters. These don’t include wear leveling or durability, so they simply fail over time. A 98 might not be familiar with SSDs, but even if it mentioned “a lot,” the amount written is just a fraction—thousands of times less—compared to what’s being done today. Windows 10, Linux, etc., generate large logs that are far bigger, but that doesn’t affect the core issue of reliability.