Pentium II 333Mhz vs Celeron 333Mhz Mendocino \ VOGONS

Pentium II 333Mhz vs Celeron 333Mhz Mendocino

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First post, by theelf

Posted on 2013-07-07, 17:09

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Im building a Pentium 2 machine for DOS games, and DOS emulators

Currently I have a Pentium 2 333mhz 66mhz bus, 512 cache at 1/2 speed

People, you think a Celeron Mendocino 333mhz 66mhz bus, with 128kb cache but full speed, will outperform my Pentium 2?

Why 333mhz? I detect that some games, like, Lotus 3 or jazz jackrabbit, dont work over 333mhz, with error 200. Other games, happen same, different error

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 3, by Stull

Posted on 2013-07-07, 17:59

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I'm not sure about your question, but you can usually patch executables with tppatch to fix runtime error 200:
http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-r200.htm

Reply 2 of 3, by swaaye

Posted on 2013-07-07, 18:57

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The reviews of these CPUs are still online. Mendocino is very competitive with PII and often more overclockable.

Reply 3 of 3, by theelf

Posted on 2013-07-07, 22:07

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Stull wrote:
I'm not sure about your question, but you can usually patch executables with tppatch to fix runtime error 200:
http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-r200.htm

Thanks, already know about this patches. I always believe that was only for software, not games, that's why never tried

I test with lotus, but it seems that or is not a pascal or is a compressed exe

swaaye wrote:
The reviews of these CPUs are still online. Mendocino is very competitive with PII and often more overclockable.

I saw many reviews, but sadly, all of them, talk about performance on Windows applications. For sure Photoshop, a big Excel spreadsheet, or 3DStudio Max benefits from a bigger cache...

But DOS games? that's my doubt

I tried to buy a mendocino, but are not easy to find, and not cheap for sure!! 😒

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