Reply 52580 of 54980, by Dan386DX
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Picked up an FX 5500, the PCI version.
It’s going to be paired with a 233Mhz IBM 6x86, it’s overkill for this CPU. My super socket 7 board doesn’t have an AGP slot, and while a 16/32MB card might be more period correct, this was quite inexpensive and will do everything 3D-wise that the processor is capable of.
I’ll also try it with a PIII-500E, just to compare the bottlenecks.
90s PC: IBM 6x86 MX 233MHz. TNT2 M64. 256MB RAM, 2GB CompactFlash.
Boring modern PC: i7-12700, RX 7800XT. 32GB/1TB.
Fixer upper project: NEC Powermate 486SX/25. 16MB/400MB.