First post, by Hamby
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I just bought a Socket 7 motherboard with a 133mhz Pentium CPU.
The board is labeled "KM-T5-V rev 3.0"
On the back it's labeled "TEAN TN2 94v0"
I'm wondering if I can stick a K6-2 300mhz in place of the Pentium, and if so, what will be the effect? Will it fry it? Will it be much faster? Is it worthwhile?
Also, the Pentium 133 doesn't have a CPU fan. Does it need one?
I'm torn between keeping the Pentium or installing the K6-2.
While the Pentium seems closer to the mid-90s rig I'm trying to set up (though I intend going with Win98 instead of Win95 or WFW 3.11), it would be nice to have top-end power for the era.
I plan on running DOS games and some early Windows games such as Myst, Freespace, Crusader: No Remorse, Diablo I (II?).
I also plan on doing some programming, and run some apps such as Lightwave, Photoshop CS2 (or Photoshop 6; I think I have disks for both).
The board currently has 32mb of ram, but I think I can upgrade that to 256mb (which I want for A) Lightwave/Photoshop, and B) so I don't need a swap file on the CF card C: drive.
Thanks in advance for any advice.