buckeye wrote:

I'm in ignorance here - CPU for server applications ok for gaming or whatever?

Next question: Would a socket 370 celeron 1.1ghz. work as an "high end" Win98 system?

Yes and yes.

quite frankly kinda yes but a little no;
server cpu often have lower frequency - this may be important fir single threaded programs like old games;
server cpus often have more cache and server mainboards have beefy memory controllers - this might help, especially with bigger programs;
a celeron is not a server cpu and it is not really high powered, it will run win 98 quite well especially with a fast disk and plenty of memory (whopping 512mb or so ;p)
imho high end windows98 is highest powered 32bit cpus with overall beefy hardware; i do believe you might still see improvement with an athlon 64 or 64bit p4/pentium d or whatever;
just my 5 cents; You did not mention what abuse this baby will endure..?

There's 2 Celeron 1.1s...

The one blessed by angels that runs as if riding a unicorn in a sky full of rainbows is the Tualatin 1.1 or 1100 with 256KB of cache.

The one made out of satans toenail clippings after they passed through the digestive systems of hell's rats is the Coppermine 1.1 with 128KB of cache.

BitWrangler wrote:

There's 2 Celeron 1.1s...

The one blessed by angels that runs as if riding a unicorn in a sky full of rainbows is the Tualatin 1.1 or 1100 with 256KB of cache.

The one made out of satans toenail clippings after they passed through the digestive systems of hell's rats is the Coppermine 1.1 with 128KB of cache.

It's the one derived from toenail clippings I'm afraid. Is the 128kb of cache the problem or the 100 FSB?

The cache mostly I guess, coppermine celerons tend to feel like something about 2/3 their speed. 1.1 is also the peak of coppermine yields so don't expect to overclock to compensate. Celerons seem to alternate like windows versions, good, awful, good, awful....

buckeye wrote:

BitWrangler wrote:

Is the 128kb of cache the problem or the 100 FSB?

In some programs the cache, in others the FSB, in many both...

But still, for Windows 98 it is a very fast CPU.

kva wrote:

But still, for Windows 98 it is a very fast CPU.

True.