Any chance you can get some throttling data with SETMUL under DOS? Nehemiah CPUs are pretty common on Ebay these days and I'm wondering how well a Nehemiah rig would work compared to my Socket 7 / K6-2 machine.

I run my Nehemiah at 1.4 GHz in an i815 motherboard. About 5 years ago, it was still able to keep up fairly well with web browsing. I haven't tried it recently though. The Nehemiah was actually a pretty decent CPU from VIA. All the other C3 chips were a lot slower though.

I'm mainly thinking in terms of flexibility and speed stepping 😀

Agreed with gdjacobs. Add it to the cachebench spreadsheet!

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I had to build a system for daily use out of what I had on hand from my spares boxes that were easily accessible.

Well for a machine that was built out of what ever I could find handily at the time, this has turned out to be a real gem, with retrozilla I have been using the internet much as I always do once the connection was sorted. Editing pictures, burning CD's, playing music, I even logged into the VOGONS game server and played some Unreal Tournament.
I really am amazed how good this thing is, it was made completely from cast off parts that I didn't want in any of my other rigs, yet has been perfect for the last few weeks. I have not actually switched the thing off since I made it, 100% reliability so far.
I know the whole thing makes little sense, a "bad" ECS board with a "joke" CPU, a mediocre graphics card and Windows ME. But honestly it works really well & saw me through until the new hard drive arrived for my main rig. I'm going to keep it set up from now on, it's done me proud and I hope it contiues to do so into the future, the machine made of crap parts that should never have been built!

Best,
Chris

This I like a lot, nicely done! 😁

I've build a couple rigs in a similar way, build a rig with what I had on hand at that moment, install an OS and in the end I ended up only using the rig to run a couple benchmarks and then putting the rig away 🤣

I've build a couple rigs in a similar way, build a rig with what I had on hand at that moment, install an OS and in the end I ended up only using the rig to run a couple benchmarks and then putting the rig away

Sounds familiar. I find repeated attention happens to only 1 or 2 systems of particular interest.

feipoa wrote:

I've build a couple rigs in a similar way, build a rig with what I had on hand at that moment, install an OS and in the end I ended up only using the rig to run a couple benchmarks and then putting the rig away

Sounds familiar. I find repeated attention happens to only 1 or 2 systems of particular interest.

I do prefer to keep using just 1 or 2 retro rigs at any given time and only switch when I need another rig for whatever reason (usually because I want to get a game working quickly without having to potentially spend hours getting it to run on my main rig).

my VIA C7-D 1,6Ghz Machine struggles with webbrowsing these Days 😒
the C3 should struggle even more because of the lack of sse2.

The ECS P6STP-FN has often problems with capacitors.
i also have one with dead capacitors 😀

Within the last 6-12 months, I'm even feeling a web slowdown on a P4 Prescott w/i875 chipset w/4GB RAM.