1- Yes, even though I've heard the final drivers are inferior to some older version, this hasn't been an issue in my experience (where I "upgraded" from the original ATI X1300 mainly to have H264 acceleration)

4- I'd guess 9x is doable with the unofficial AHCI drivers, a contemporary PCI video card, and the like; but the CPU is kinda wasted...

haker120 wrote on 2023-01-03, 18:56:

2. Does SB0220 support Sound Blaster Pro (or any) in XP or in Win9X

You get SBPro support with WDM drivers and SB16 support with VxD drivers. I'm not sure if the latter can work properly on a LGA775 system though.

GPU I bought for veeeeeeery cheap as for my country pricing standards, sound card I literally found in box full of trashed parts with some other better ones)

That 710 is somewhat ok for early WinXP gaming. But if you want to run Win98 on that system, you'll either need an PCIe Radeon X800 (X600 and such might work too) or a PCI graphics card, which will of course be much slower.

Phil did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abYeIixYrbk

The thing is I do own dedicated WinXP PC with beefy GPU (GForce with 2GB VRAM, not sure 😁) and C2Q9550 and this PC I want to find usage other than throwing it away. 😉

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-01-03, 22:04:

You get SBPro support with WDM drivers and SB16 support with VxD drivers. I'm not sure if the latter can work properly on a LGA775 system though.

That 710 is somewhat ok for early WinXP gaming. But if you want to run Win98 on that system, you'll either need an PCIe Radeon X800 (X600 and such might work too) or a PCI graphics card, which will of course be much slower.

So how to make it work on Win98 then? I can replace GPU to chinese 'universal PCI' FX5500 where it expects 3.3V rail from PCI so I guess PCI GPU won't be a problem and not horribly slow. 😀

(Sorry guys, I suck at quoting... 🤣)
1- Yes, even though I've heard the final drivers are inferior to some older version, this hasn't been an issue in my experience (where I "upgraded" from the original ATI X1300 mainly to have H264 acceleration)
4- I'd guess 9x is doable with the unofficial AHCI drivers, a contemporary PCI video card, and the like; but the CPU is kinda wasted...

I don't mind making some power wasted as long as I can actually make use out of this PC. 😀 And drivers aren't too much of concern for me for XP and for 98 I'll swap to FX5500 anyway. 😉

haker120 wrote on 2023-01-04, 14:35:

So how to make it work on Win98 then? I can replace GPU to chinese 'universal PCI' FX5500 where it expects 3.3V rail from PCI so I guess PCI GPU won't be a problem and not horribly slow. 😀

I'd rather buy Radeon X300, X550, X600 or X1050 which are R300 generation (same as Radeon 9550/9600) or more expensive Radeon X700/X800/X850.
Geforce fx5500 does not fit this computer (crappy performance, not period correct).

Więc co byś radził ziomuś @zyga64, żeby cena nie zabiła? 😀

I mean what would you propose so price won't kill me? 😜 I guess X600 or X700? This PC doesn't have to be all XP games capable and I can use DOSBox for few DOS games that work and sound doesn't hurt my ears. 😁

Z czystej ciekawości: https://allegro.pl/oferta/sapphire-radeon-x10 … cie-11855050560

This one won't be early Windows 9x games capable (no paletted textures/table fog), but you should at least be able to install native Windows 9x drivers with 3d acceleration.
VGA Legacy MKIII states that X1050 is in fact renamed X700.
So HL2, Doom3 etc. will be in your reach. I remember I've played Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay on Radeon X700.

Thanks, I ordered, and so it'll be better than NVS300 for Win98 PCI-e gaming. 😁

I found in my special box Gigabyte gv-rx60p128de. Is this Radeon x600?