It really depends on what you'll want to use it for. They were budget-oriented and definitely among the slowest CPUs on the socket370 platform - you can think of it as more of a Celeron-like performance, or perhaps a previous generation Pentium II. Not being either AMD or Intel does make it a fun collectable though. It's definietly worth saving from the clutches of gold recovery folks.

I mean you can run any old DOS game on a modern machine, this is more about what's more fun/quirky to fool around with, to me anyway. I use a Cyrix MII on my DOS machine - it's not the fastest but the "CyrixInstead" in the Windows system info gives me a chuckle everytime.

Late Nenemiah core can be compared to Penium 3 Coppermine (not in clock-for-clock comparison). This one is based on Samuel core and can be compared to overclocked Pentium MMX.

Yes they are great, although this is a slower one and will limit what you can play on it. They can slow down sufficiently to play old games and detect old hardware, and at full speed can play games up to around 98. Beyond that even the fastest ones will struggle badly. For Quake2 and Unreal though, they are excellent. I personally use an Ezra at 866mhz, and I would not go below 800mhz.

A friend of mine on another forum uses a Via C3 800MHz (Eden-N) with his Voodoo 2 SLI Mini-ITX rig. It is going to be quite a bit faster than the 600MHz Samuel core in the picture.
https://www.sweclockers.com/galleri/14409-via … retro-lan-dator

I modeled my Mini-ITX Voodoo 2 SLI build after his, but I'm using a 1GHz VIA C7.

It really all depends on the targeted era of games you want to play. I suggest watching the Cyrix/VIA history video, since it goes into some of the VIA stuff toward the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGAdoMz1c0

C3 chips are very flexible as they can be reclocked in software and they have several cache pools that can be manipulated. This makes them quite good for playing speed sensitive DOS titles on a more modern platform.