#Once you hit like... P4 and GPUs being common
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ailurinae · 4 months ago
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Time for Quake 3 and Starcraft! Netscape Navigator 4!
That said, a PC designed and labeled for Win98 is almost certainly an ATX motherboard, which is what we still use most often for full size PCs (and Mini-ATX is cross compatible):
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If the back panel looks like this next image, that is ATX:
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The other main option for late 90s would be Baby AT, which are these goofy looking things:
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The PC in the pic say Celeron, and the first Celerons were based on Pentium II... there evidently were Baby AT boards made for P2:
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(pretty sure those were rare though) The back of the PC would look more like this:
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Also possible it is some custom funky motherboard... not sure how much or if Gateway did that. I remember it more in Dell and some HPs... (if there is a big "daughterboard"/the motherboard is in two parts or a weird shape, that is custom)
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I found a Windows 98 PC Box, what should I do
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