There is no such thing as to many unless stacked to the ceiling. 🤣

You could use all of them to configure the system you like the best, keep it, and then sell the rest. Then use the money to buy more retro parts of course!

ODwilly wrote:

You could use all of them to configure the system you like the best, keep it, and then sell the rest. Then use the money to buy more retro parts of course!

I don't think I could easily part with any of them. I'm just trying to figure out what to do with them, or if I should leave some in storage.

Set them all up with an identical OS and early LAN games like Quake, Outlaws and Doom. Put the computers you wont use often in an accessible storage location and have them ready to roll for retro lan party fun 😁 I would advise you ditch that pci Trident video card for another Trio64 or a Matrox card and add a SB16 or AWE card along with another 32mb of ram.

A suggestion: Keep one build to focus on games compatibility, keep another to focus on demoscene compatibilty, and the 3rd for testing components.

Here is what I worked out so far

1- I got myself an OPTi-based sound card with genuine Yamaha OPL. Put that on the Compaq, and moved the YMF719 card (but not the MIDI daughterboard) to the Pentium 133
2- Wired the turbo button on system 2 so the Pentium can be started @ 75MHz (50x1.5) and 133MHz (66*2). Switching the button on the fly changes the bus speed, but the multiplier is ignored until the system is powered off and on again, getting me 100MHz (50x2 or 66*1.5)
3- Moved the 20GB HDD to the Compaq, keeping the existing setup by copying the contents (including the propertary BIOS Setup partition) using a disk copy utility
4- Then got the 6GB HDD to the Pentium 133, nuked its contents and made it a dual-boot DOS 6.22+WfW3.11 and Windows NT 3.51
5- OCed the MMX chip to 233MHz, so it would more closely resemble "my" first PC ever (my dad's, actually)
6- I couldn't get the ISA NIC on the Pentium (NE2000 compatible) working for the life of me, so I moved the 3COM from the Compaq to the Pentium, and dropped some PCI NIC there
7- I goofed up when describing the boards, there is no 75MHz setting on System 2

After all that, the Compaq now has a sound card that sounds even cleaner, and a PCI NIC (and I think a 100MB/s PCI NIC makes more sense in a Win98 machine than a 10MB/s ISA one). The Pentium 133 is now a bit more versatile, has got sound and has a very well tuned DOS 6.22 install. I can load Smartdrive, UNIVBE, the packet driver and CD-ROM support in UMBs, still have some upper memory to spare and 615KB of free conventional memory. Surprisingly, I'm not having a lot of trouble with the Trident vídeo card... Warcraft II runs fine there, and so do WfW and NT.

The K6-2, sadly, is in a closet right now... I'm thinking about getting a higher end K6-2 or a Cyrix MII 333. The first would get me better performance, the second is the processor I had in my first PC that my mother got me, but I'm not sure it would be a good replica (the original had a PCChips cheap board, onboard crappy video on the AGP bus and áudio. I still have the old original keyboard, currently connected to the Pentium 133 and works perfectly), this PC looks too... decent.

order a K6-III+ from ebay?

The board doesn't go below 2.2V

with a Socket A cooler you should be able to run 2.2V