First post, by emosun
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I have a machine which has the 233mhz mmx but unfortunately has no L2 cache at all. This makes for a terrible machine to run almost anything on.
quake for example , in dos mode only runs decently at 300x200. higher res = worse performance becoming pretty much a slideshow. I would ASSUME that has to do with the gpu and not the cpu , however the terrible 2mb integrated gpu performs the same as any other gpu all the way up to 64mb overpowered gpu's. which leads me to believe that the cpu just must not be able to handle it. Even the saving grace voodoo 2 isn't helping at all , and yes the voodoo card works. I gave unreal tournament a try which again is only playable provided I'm at the lowest resolution and there only a single AI opponent. Tried hydro thunder which also is a 5fps slideshow at any setting.
The only game that seemed to work great was "Driver" for pc , with the voodoo2 it works great.
I'm assuming the cpu is just crippled but if anyone has a passmark run of a pentium 233mmx with L2 cache I'd love to see and compare it to mine to see just how cripple mine really is.