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Posted April 16, 2014
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darthvader39560: I think LazyGameReviews on youtube did a guide on how ot build one. You should check his channel out.
I enjoy his thrift shop episodes. :)
Posted April 16, 2014
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OldFatGuy: Sorry if this has already been asked (I read a lot of the thread, but not all of it).

What about memory (RAM)?

I saw you mention the important thing to look for was MB and CPU, you could swap out the others pretty easy. Does that include RAM? Pretty much any stick of RAM from that era will do the trick and it's not so important to match the RAM to the processor the way it is today to take advantage of double, triple channel, etc.??
Depending on the age of the PC, you need to look at the clockrate of your CPU. Mine is 100Mhz so I need to look for PC100 SDRAM for this current PC. Later PC's no longer used this method and double/triple channel didn't exist yet in 2002. I should refresh some of this stuff, really, since it's been 10+ years and some elements have blended together with time.

I do know that, after the PIII range from Intel, the AMD Athlons became popular - and those were massive heat emitters so if you ever get an Athlon CPU, make sure to get a good cooler because those tended to overheat and die.
Posted April 16, 2014
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jjsimp: Well, if your going for retro shouldn't it be running Windows 98.

I've thought about building one, but I'd rather play the games I have in my GOG catalog that actually run in Windows 7.
Not really. WinXP can run nearly all Windows 98 games if you got older hardware. Win98 was also unstable as hell and was a pain to set up. I remember having to make boot disks just to format hard drives and large drives really don't get along very well with it either.

Personally, while I enjoyed my Win98 PC, I don't miss having to reinstall every half year. Since Vista, I haven't had to reinstall a single PC due to crashing - usually I do it because I bought a bigger hard drive (or SSD).
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