Hello everyone,

I recently got a PC Chips 599 mlr and equipped it with the following:
CPU: Pentium MMX 233
RAM: 128 MB SD RAM (I also tried with 32MB RAM)
GPU: onboard
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely aware that an onboard GPU wouldn't perform extremely well,
that was never my expectation.
But I noticed some performance issues while installing Windows 98SE and dxdiag
and other sys information tools were showing the CPU reported at 166 MHz.
Speedsys also rated the CPU performance at around a Pentium 133.
The standard quake timedemo in 320x200 runs at an average 32 fps, which is roughly in the
ball park of a Pentium 133.
I double and triple checked the bios settings and the CPU is definitely set to 233 MHz
via an FSB of 66 and a multiplier of 3.5x and internal and external caches are activated.

I used the same RAM and CPU on one of my other SS7 boards, this time an Asus P5A-B
and everything's working just fine.

I thought about fake caches but then I would expect performance to be even worse
and disabling external caches did slow down things further.

So, this is not really a big deal to me because I have many different SS7 boards but I'm
really curious as to what is happening.
If it was only about Quake I would place my bet on some issues with the onboard GPU
but given that the reported frequency and computational throughput is reported lower
in various applications I have become very curious as to what is going on.