First post, by 2Mourty
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I have a 1GHz Machine for windows games from the 1996-2002 era:
ASUS CUBX Motherboard Socket 370
1 GHZ Pentium III Coppermine
Nvidia 4200 TI
2 Voodoo 2's in SLI configuration
Aureal Vortex2 Superquad 2500 with a
DB60xg on the waveblaster header
AWE64 Gold
SCC-1A ISA Card
CM-32L
Windows 98 SE
Works like a charm. I also use this computer to play some older dos games in dosbox, and this works fine. Thing is I have these wonderful retro pieces of equipment hooked to a machine that is too fast to run the games they were designed for (especially sierra and lucasarts games). I was trying to think of a very economic way to rectify this situation.
I have an old Micron ClientPro MRE lying around with a socket 7 430TX motherboard in it. It has an old Pentium I 233 MMX chip in it. This still seems a bit fast for 1992 and earlier dos games. Granted the earliest dos games I have are SQ1, QFG1, and Conquests of Camelot, but I have plenty of pre 1992 vga games.
I found out that intel made a 133 MMX socket 7. Here are a few that are on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/MMX-133-SL26W-2-45V_W0QQi … 7QQcmdZViewItem
and
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … :MEWA:IT&ih=019
Would this be a good sweetspot for this machine? It would be fast enough to play newer dos games (WC3,WC4, System Shock) which I own, and it seems that it would be slow enough for my cherished sierra and lucasarts games collection.
Comments please? Would this cpu be to fast or slow or just right? Thank you.