I now... I'm crazy. You don't have to tell me! But this has actually been another long time contemplating purchase because I found something I like at a good price. For those that haven't seen, I just yesterday posted a thread that I purchased a Socket 7 motherboard.
This one makes more sense, hear me out (skip the backstory if you don't care)...
Long story short... This new motherboard will be for my dedicated Windows 98 machine. I already have enough in spare parts to make a complete system (including a 1 GHz Pentium III) although I'll want to eventually swap things out.
So I found this MSI MS-6199VA motherboard for only $40. MSI still has a page up for this mobo, with the manual and BIOS files available for download. The only drivers they have up is for on board audio, which the exact version of this board I got doesn't have populated (which is fine because I don't want to use it anyway). It uses the VIA Apollo 133 chipset, which I've read VIA chipsets aren't without problems, but apparently the so-called "4-in-1" drivers can make the system run better. This board supports a wide array of processors, I think every Slot 1 CPU I own will work on this board LOL. I think I even saw something in the manual about overclocking. And from what I've read, that blue sticker with a C on it (as see in the picture posted above) means that the CPU I plan to use should work with the BIOS that's on there. If not, I have a chip programmer, so I should be able to flash the BIOS outside of the PC. Or heck, I suppose I have spare CPUs that should work to flash the BIOS with.
Although I have everything I need to get it up and running right away, I'm undecided what I'll ultimately do for a sound and video card. That, and like that Socket 7 build, the case is going to be the most annoying part. At least with this board, it's a straight up ATX build. But for some reason, you can't find cheap cases anymore! You use to be able to get really cheap cases if you wanted, but now it seems everything is $50 and up! That just seems nuts to me, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about a case yet. Projects like this are fun when they don't cost a lot, I definitely don't want to drop ~$100 on a case!
Anyway, expect this to be another slow build. I'll update this thread as I go along.