I am planning on building a Mame cabinet (running DOS) and I'm working on getting the computer together first. I'm looking to buy an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (or 1800+). I'm having some problems finding a motherboard so I have a few questions:
Is it reccomended to get an ISA port for a soundblaster if the MoBo comes with "AC'97 2.2 Audio CODEC Onboard"? Will the onboard audio have any problems running with MAME in DOS? (Finding a MoBo with ISA *and* 266MHz FSB processor support is tough)
Also, one of the boards that I found has "Trident Blade 3D Video Integrated" but only allows for 8Megs of system mem to be used. The board also doesn't have an AGP slot. So is it best to get a MoBo that has a large memory intergrated video, an AGP slot so I can get a large memory video card, or is the 8meg onboard sufficient? And, if I were to get this board, are PCI video cards sufficient?? What amount of video memory is reccomended?
I know I asked a lot, but if you have any answers or advice, let me know. Thanks.
Just for reference, the MoBo I've been looking at is: (Biostar M7VKQ)
http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/socket_a/m7vkq/index.php3