clueless1 wrote on 2020-12-19, 14:51:
appiah4 wrote on 2020-12-19, 14:00:
I am throwing together a Slot 1 PC to be primarily used as a test bed for ISA/PCI/AGP(2x) cards. I also plan to do DOS gaming on it. The motherboard is a P2B-F. Would a Celeron 400 be a good fit? As far as I can tell it slows down to 386SX25 speeds with L1 disabled which is perfect for me.
Do you have any other slot 1 cpus to try out? There are several DOS games that could use all the cpu they can get if you want smooth 640x480 performance. I'd say 600-800Mhz would be a good max. I'm just not sure how those cpus will slow down compared to your Celeron 400.
Well, yeah. With regards to Katmai and Coppermine I have the following in Slot-1 form:
Pentium II 333 Deschutes (In my XPS D333)
Pentium II 350 Deschutes
Pentium III 450 Katmai (fan needs servicing)
Pentium III 500 Katmai (In my 1996-1998 PC)
Pentium III 55o Coppermine
Pentium III 600 Katmai
Pentium III 700 Coppermine
I also have the following Socket 370 CPUs I can use in a slotket:
Celeron 533 Mendocino (I have two of these I hope to use in a dual Socket 370 motherboard some day.. Not that I've been able to get one yet.)
Celeron 900 Coppermine
Pentium III 700 Coppermine (100MHz FSB)
Pentium III 850 Coppermine (100MHz FSB)
Pentium III 1000 Coppermine (100MHz FSB)
I picked on the Celeron 400 because it is the slowest, I thought faster stuff would be problematic on the low end. A Celeron 400 + 64MB Ram would probably run just about anything? The only games I foresee being a pain in the ass would be those that crash on 200MHz+, and games that target specific 486 speeds (Ultima VII, Theme Park.. are there any others?)
Finally, I have a Chaintech CT-AJA4T Socket 370 VIA Apollo Pro 133T motherboard in the mail that would open up all the options including 133MHz Coppermines and Tualatins but I'm not sure those have any business in a primarily DOS and testing build. Also, VIA wouldn't be my first choice for this thing regardless, 440BX is a much more stable chipset to test things on. So based on the above, which would you go for?
Retronautics: A digital gallery of my retro computers, hardware and projects.