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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2017-06-19, 18:14

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Have an interest (like a lot of you!) on building a win98 pc that also can run certain dos games without a lot of sleepless nights. Having the listed cpu, what mobo do you all advise to me to get that can maybe allow for underclocking the cpu a bit?

The games I'm leaning towards are Doom 2, Quake, Duken Nuken 3D and Front Page Sports FB 96 for dos and mainly Rogue Squadron 3D & Quake 2 for Win98. This may not be feasable and if not let me know what would be - thanks!

PS - I already have an Intel se440bx-1 board so far as I know you can't tweak much on it.

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Reply 1 of 2, by chinny22

Posted on 2017-06-19, 20:00

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Doom, Duke and Quake will run fine and don't need the system to slow down, Not sure about the last two but realised late enough I would think your safe by the mid 90's developers had realised relying on hardware limitations for game speed was a bad idea.

If you already have the Intel se440bx-1 I would just use that, It's true its pretty locked down but its rock stable, and even better free!

Reply 2 of 2, by buckeye

Posted on 2017-06-19, 20:42

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chinny22 wrote:
Doom, Duke and Quake will run fine and don't need the system to slow down, Not sure about the last two but realised late enough I would think your safe by the mid 90's developers had realised relying on hardware limitations for game speed was a bad idea.

If you already have the Intel se440bx-1 I would just use that, It's true its pretty locked down but its rock stable, and even better free!

Thanks chinny22, that's good news!

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