im looking for a suitable matx mother board to create a pc for arcade gaming , i already have a processor at home which id like to use , its a 2.8ghz 90nm pentium 4 socket 775 800 ht , i probably only need 1gb of ram , i also dont need on board graphics and i would be happy with just analog audio, ill mostly be running 2d games.
im going to be using a arcadevga card via PCI-E or AGP as seen here
http://www.ultimarc.com/avgainf.html
and they also note that onboad graphics could conflict with the card as quoted here
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Note that Dell do not support the use of non-Dell VGA cards in their systems and there are non-standard features in the Dell BIOS which prevent non-Dell cards from working in some cases. So, although the card may work in Dell systems, we cannot guarantee this in all cases.
In order to work correctly, the ArcadeVGA card cannot co-exist with other VGA adaptors in the PC. If the PC has on-board graphics capability, it must be disabled by use of a jumper or BIOS setting. If there is no way to disable on-board graphics, we cannot guarantee the card will work.
so if i do get a board with onboard graphics i need to be able to turn it off via the bios , the reason i must have this graphics card is that its able to run at 15khz and run true low res so i can use it on a 21” crt tv via rgb scart and achieve a arcade picture perfect moniter
id rather use a ide harddrive , as i have a spare 120gb hdd lying around + id like to use these parts listed here
any help or suggestions would be great even if you think i could save money getting rid of my 775 processor as im no computer expert
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