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First post, by beepfish

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Here's what I've put together so far, really just for playing quake 1-3 but maybe a few old dos games too. The wildcat card seems pretty good so far - I was reminded of this card by a post someone made here, it's not a gaming card but it does glquake smoothly at 1600x1200 when my other cards [even a ti4600] cause crashes. Demo1 runs at 75fps in version 0.97. I guess being a mid-range workstation opengl card it's a bit more compatible than a gaming card.

Celeron 1ghz [Edit: now Tualatin 1.4ghz]
Chaintech 6VIA5T with 256mb ram running 98SE
Wildcat VP870 agp card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Yamaha SW60XG

The only upgrade I have planned is a 1.4ghz tualatin, since it looks like that should fit. [Edit: now done].

Last edited by beepfish on 2011-03-31, 15:29. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 1, by Tetrium

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I think the s370 Celerons are not that bad for a retro rig. Even though I personally rate the s370 post-PPGA Celerons as a somewhat significantly lesser choice, they can still hold their own. I have (had) 2 retro rigs with s370 Celerons, one 400Mhz (atm non-functional due to it being in pieces after a messy attempt at changing some hardware around) and a Celeron 800.
Even though the similar speed P3's are a lot better, the Celerons have the benefit of having a pretty high CPU clock on a lower FSB. There are P3's available for the 100Mhz FSB, but those are harder to find.
In my opinion, it's the >750Mhz P3's that are worthwhile to get. If you ever need a 750Mhz 100FSB P3, just take one of the common 1Ghz chips and underclock it 😉

I think the post PPGA Celerons are overall about 30% slower compared to their bigger P3 brothers while having about the same power consumption.

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