First post, by jmrydholm
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Hi everyone, been a while but I've still been up to Dos gaming fun in my spare time! (work, life, and marriage have sidetracked me a bit but I still love this board!)
My old, beige Dell Optiplex Gs currently runs on a Pentium I MMX chip at 166 MhZ. I mainly use it for real mode Dos gaming, but I do have some good old 3dfx/Glide titles I love to play under Windows 98. The trouble is, I have a serious bottleneck when it comes to the 3dfx cards and the CPU. Is it possible/worthwhile to overclock the Pentium I from 166 up to 200? I believe the Optiplex has a jumper on the board for set FSB speeds or something...I currently have 4x32MB slots of memory at 128MB total and have tried running it with 64MB as well. Here's a brief rundown of how it's set up:
CPU: Pentium 166MhZ (edit) Socket 7
Memory: 128 MB EDO Ram, non-parity
3D Card: Voodoo 2 Black Magic 12MB
2D/Passthrough: NVidia GeForce 2 32MB
OS: Windows 98, 1st edition
DirectX: 9.0c
Sound Card: SB AWE 32, 32MB of Ram, port 220
Other Sound Card: Gravis Ultrasound v2.4, port 250
Wavetable Daughterboard: Yamaha DB50XG knock-off IRQ 330
External Midi: Roland SC-55, Roland MT-32
Is there such a thing as too many Midi devices: no. 😜
Beer: yes, please
I appreciate any advice! Final Fantasy 7 plays at a passable speed, though sluggish. It seems to work better under native Glide than NVidia. Windows Media Player 9 also jogs at a snail's pace, unless I minimize it and have no visualizations going. I could probably just buy a Pentium 200 for dirt cheap on ebay, but I'm stingy as that $10 bucks goes toward my wife and future child. Or beer. 🤣 j/k.
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