Athlon 64 & Windows 98 - A match made in heaven! 

Another great video! The time taken on the script and editing is noticable. Your style is unique, consistent, and very entertaining. Keep it up homie.

Such a great platform for retro gaming. The combo of Athlon64 and a 6000 series has full driver support from windows 95 to Windows 8 64-bit too. Windows 10 32-bit will sort of work, though I've stuck with Me, XP & 7 64-bit triple boot. EasyBCD will allow 9x to be added to the Windows multi-boot menu. Also some of the 754 boards can run server memory and will handle 4GB DIMMS.

7:25 The 3dmark 99 CPU score of the 560 MHz Athlon64 is similar to a Pentium 3 900-1000 mhz.

Nice. I have also set up a 754 agp system for my 'superfast' windows 98 system. I use a 'Golden Orb' cooler with a resistor to decrease fan speed.

GPUs, the scourge of retro PC building. After failing with the ati 9550, I got a geforce 7600gs and the first time booting it up, I got artifacts. Disassembled it, change the cement with fresh thermal paste (the 7600gs also has one of those bridge chips but it has a thermal pad instead of paste), boot it again, no more artifacts. I realized the card was hot when I picked it to change the paste and checking the temps in afterburner it was hot like it was under load. Found out the fan wasn't spinning. Now I have to wait for the replacement fan to arrive :))

Ha! Awesome set-up! I have mine similar, using a s939 3800+ and a Radeon 9800 Pro for gfx. Works really well. 😆

That 6800 from ASUS can be fixed. Way to do it is to spread the flux around the edges of GPU, and use soldering station with heat gun. You need to set heat gun to around 300*C and heat up GPU around the die for around 8-10 minutes, constantly moving heat gun with circular motion around the GPU. Flux will melt under GPU and will form perfect BGA under the chip again. Usually there's problem with broken solder balls in these older GPU's, due to lead free solder that was used back in the day. You need to also remember to DO NOT hold heat gun in one place above GPU for more than 5 seconds, and to do not touch the card for around 10 minutes after you finished with it so it can properly set and cool down. I have resurrected few cards of mine like this. Hope that helps with your ASUS V9999. Have fun!

I've built two Athlon 64 Win98 machines, and not only are they great, but they can also dual boot Windows XP for increased range of games and compatibility. I usually use Socket 754 for these types of builds. I've also build 98 machines with Pentium II/III, Athlon XP, Pentium 4, and even a Core 2 Duo machine. Out of all of them, I think the Pentium 4 wins for raw compatibility, but Athlon 64 is close behind and offers more speed than you can get from most Pentium 4 machines.

Yes the zalman coolers are so noisy running full speed - i tried the speed fan and cool and quiet - nothing worked - so i got a new cooler from aliexpress which is a 120mm fan (with someLED action ) a low profile 3 hear pipe model for about $15 and it solved the problem as it runs much quieter at full speed - not period correct but i didnt care as its a better PC now

Why do you want to disable "AGP Fast Write" ? I thought it gave a boost in performance?

You can mod the cooler with a PNP transistor and a potentiometer.

You can still use the 6800 with the pcie bridge. You just have to force install the driver manually. Well at least it worked for me.

Currently using an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Socket 939 Toledo CPU, on a purple ECS nForce3-A939 nForce3 250 motherboard, with 2GB (2x1GB) Kingston HyperX DDR 400 dual channel memory, an XFX 256MB GDDR3 6600 GT AGP graphics card, and a Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090 PCI sound card, as an early to mid XP 32-bit retro build (for certain XP games (MS FS 2002 Pro) and DOS utilities (Norton Ghost 2003) that don't like my Q9650 750 Ti XP/8.1 build). (CPU Cooler is a reasonably cool and quiet Socket AM4 AMD Wraith Prism RGB, controlled manually with an internal Zalman fan controller, which amazingly is still backwards compatible with Socket 939). The build is also still theoretically backwards compatible with Windows 98se, if I disable one of the 2 CPU cores, downgrade to my 2x512MB Kingston HyperX DDR 400 dual channel memory modules, and use Super FDisk & manual BIOS settings to partition a couple of Hitachi 160GB DeskStar 7200rpm SATA hard drives to act like 128GB capacity ones, with SATA to PATA adapters used and SATA disabled. Or, I can just carry on with my 512MB SDRAM PIII 800EB Coppermine AOpen MX3S i815 256MB FX5600 SB Live! SB0060 98se/2k retro build instead. ;-)

Is this the RTX 6800? I was thinking of getting one.

gpus are my most hated computer component always has driver issues no matter what laptop what os what gpu

It that an Auchan CR2032 BIOS battery? :))

Czekam na pojedynek athlon 64 vs pentium 4 na socket 775

Direct pe ssd îl trec Windows 98 fără discuții automat unul de 250 gb de la samsung si altul direct 500 gb tot samsung să aibe acolo spațiu Pe viitor vreau să elimin unitățile de citire afară am găsit un patch care fentează Windows 98 să creadă că are acele unități în el să pot instala mai multe ssd pe el

Get a 9800pro

Hypertransport 800Mhz? 🤣 Maan it's 800MT's (800 megatransports per second). It is still 200Mhz * 4 👍