I can describe this project with three keywords: relax, top and Windows 98. Relax - this is because I wanted to build a retro computer without any strain and long-term construction, as I continue to do with my 386. Relatively cheap spare parts, large selection, no stress. Topchik: well, of course, if you are already building a computer fifteen years later, you want to make it a little more elite than you would have done then. Does Windows 98 have anything to do with it? That's where it all really started: apart from all the other interesting features of the Pentium 4 (its own architecture, hot, many megahertz), this is the latest Intel platform compatible with Windows 9x. Moreover, only the hardware of this era can be used to build a computer on which all Microsoft operating systems will take off - from MS-DOS to Windows 10. Challenge accepted.
I didn’t use almost anything from iron for the previous article . It was a calibration shopping, turn it on and understand what you really need. I bought a new motherboard, another video card, new RAM. As a result, I assembled if not the most powerful PC with a NetBurst processor, but a representative of the late generation, a dream computer around the beginning of 2005. Today I'll tell you about the whole set of glands, but I'll start by thinking about the three four shades of compatibility.
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