I apologize if this type of post has already been done, but I did look around and only found people discussing how to get Win98SE running on bigger faster hardware, not where the point of diminishing returns occurs. This is a hardware specific discussion, but with a software limitation aspect. But for the purposes of this post I"d like to nail down where it ends being maximized and starts to become overkill for the humble Win98SE platform. IE: Some say they get a 7900 AGP with 512mb, Athlon 64 etc. Often you see posts where the goal is the fastest hardware running Win98SE.
Overkill is any dual core or higher CPU even if its old like Pentium D which no one in their right mind should even use. But people have different ideas about things so its a subjective question.Īnyways TLDR my humble opinion buck stops at Athlon, Pentium 4s single core, Tualatin, maybe Pentium M, Single core CPUs that are slow by todays standards. However if the games you are wanting to run run best on retro hardware than XP/2000 is not a option for you and you must run 98se. Thus if your computer is fast enough to run XP or 2000 you should just run that. So in reasoning if you only care about games then we can say within reason that windows XP can run 99% of the "windows" games out there and can be made to run them. So my 2 cents is these 2 camps are not using it for the same reasoning.
The 2nd camp of people think 98se is the best operating system ever, and enjoy trying to take the OS as far as possible, and get a kick out of trying to use it on modern hardware and seeing if in 2019 it can be relevant as a daily driver. Most the people around this forum use it for hardware compatibility, retro hardware, retro gaming. My humble opinion, people use 98se for different reasons.
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