First post, by Zack_1982
Hi
Very nice forum, I read a lot of useful material and I would need some more advices from way more expert than me 😀.
I am building a pc to play 80s and 90s DOS and Win games.
So far the pc is made up of:
- Asus P3B-F v.1.04
- PII 400 SL2S7 (15th week, so unlocked multipliers)
- 2 x Voodoo 2 with 110 MHz ram
- AWE 64 GOLD
I have some questions:
1) Is there a way to change the multiplier and bus of the PII without entering the bios and rebooting? I understood that for K6 there is way, is there the same for PII? Is there a way to force 50MHz bus?
2) My idea is to use the pc from 2x66 (133 MHz) with no L2 cache to 133x4.5 (600 MHz) with L2 active. Which AGP video card could I use? I have read that the TI4200 AGP 8x 128MB or 64MB can very well support the AGP bus out of specs. Is it correct and is there a particular brand suggested?
3) Long time ago, fixing a pc of a friend, I saw SDRAM PC133 with 6ns modules. Are still in the use market? Which brand I can select? I would look for CL2 modules.
4) I saw that there is still available the 32 MB expansion for the Awe 64. Is it useful for having better musing in DOS/Win gaming?
5) Is there a real improvement in using a PCI sound card for windows 98 games? I am planning to add also a Sound Blaster live if this could be good.
Thank you 😀