Great timing, I've got a similar video project going live tomorrow 😁

It depends on what games you want to play. A pentium is quite versatile. At 100 you can run pretty much any DOS game from the 386 era and onwards. Newer games running at high resolution might chug a little, here a Pentium 133, 166 or 200 might be worth getting.

At 100 MHz likely a few more older DOS games will work compared to running at 200 MHz, but I don't have any examples.

At 400 MHz the K6 could be causing more DOS games have issues.

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Great timing, I've got a similar video project going live tomorrow 😁

It depends on what games you want to play. A pentium is quite versatile. At 100 you can run pretty much any DOS game from the 386 era and onwards. Newer games running at high resolution might chug a little, here a Pentium 133, 166 or 200 might be worth getting.

At 100 MHz likely a few more older DOS games will work compared to running at 200 MHz, but I don't have any examples.

At 400 MHz the K6 could be causing more DOS games have issues.

And i'm pretty sure that i will watch your video as soon as the video goes live.

Well i was looking to play Maniac Mansion,Wing Commander,Life and Death, Life and Death 2,Battle Chess, Super Offroad, Prince of Persia,Another World,Pinball Fantasies,DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D(maybe).
I found one cheap Pentium 133 working great
Nothing on High Resolution, i will use my old CRT for extra retro look and feel.
And which OS i should stick with?
and thank you for the hints.

For those games a P100 should be perfect 😀

For OS you can't go wrong with MS-DOS 6.22.

Of the games you mention, only Duke 3D would struggle, but only if you decided to run in 640x480. At VGA resolutions, it should be fine.

You might also find my project useful. I am documenting CPU performance with various caches disabled.
Thread: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled
There is a link to a spreadsheet of results that you are welcome to add to when you get your system up and going. 😀

Best of luck! BTW, I'm looking forward to Phil's video too! It's a topic that fascinates me. 😉

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

For those games a P100 should be perfect 😀

For OS you can't go wrong with MS-DOS 6.22.

Thank you again, maybe i will make dual boot with win95(just for fun) and MS-DOS 6.22 for retro gaming
It will be a good opportunity to experiment BootIt NG on a vintage hardware.
If i have any issues i will make just msdos 6.22

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Of the games you mention, only Duke 3D would struggle, but only if you decided to run in 640x480. At VGA resolutions, it should be fine.

You might also find my project useful. I am documenting CPU performance with various caches disabled.
Thread: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled
There is a link to a spreadsheet of results that you are welcome to add to when you get your system up and going. 😀

Best of luck! BTW, I'm looking forward to Phil's video too! It's a topic that fascinates me. 😉

Well i will leave de Duke Nukem 3D to my pentium 4 win98 and dos retrogaming rig.
I will do video about both builds and post here on system specs section.
Thank you all for the replies.

If your installing Win95, I wouldn't worry about Dos 6.22 and just use the included Dos 7
its actually got bit better management as well
http://www.mdgx.com/mem7.htm