First post, by _tk
I'm building a machine to take to LAN Parties a few of my friends are planning on having. It also gives me an excuse to build another retro machine from my parts pile. I have most everything planned out, but I'm stuck on the CPU to use.
I'm running either an Asus P2B or P3B motherboard. I want to stick with a 100mhz FSB processor (I know I could run 133 fsb, but I want reliable...not the bleeding edge of what my 20+ year old AGP card can/can't do running on an overclocked bus). I won't need a CPU that I can slow down as all games will be late DOS through Windows 98 games.
The CPU choices in my parts pile, of which I salvaged long ago when the company I worked for were giving old machines to the scrappers:
- Celeron 900 or 1000mhz, 100fsb (with an Asus slocket). I also have an 1100 Celery but I can't get it to post on either BX board I have and both are running the latest Asus beta bios.
- Pentium III 1000mhz underclocked to 750mhz as it's a 133fsb processor (same Asus slocket). I have a few of these including a late one with the large heat spreader on it. I like the way this supports the heat sink and fan better.
I don't own any true 100mhz fsb PIII's that are faster than 450mhz. I looked up the prices of slot 1 PIII's 700mhz+ that are 100fsb and they seem to be rare and expensive. The socket 370's aren't as much so, but the higher 100fsb seem to be rare as well. Also, I want to use my parts up that I've been hoarding since the late 90's.
Tried looking at old benchmarks and I can't really find many that compare the 100fsb celeron's to PIII's. Perhaps by '01 when the 100fsb Celeron's were being released people had already moved on. I see that Phil did a 1ghz Celeron video but he only compared to PIII's that were half the speed.