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dionb wrote:What's the motherboard and primary VGA to go with it?
Generally the Celeron 500 will perform better, but not necessarily. If the Celeron in on an i810 shared-mem VGA chipset, it will crawl and a K6-2 with discrete VGA will win hands down. The other way round it's even worse, if that K6-2 is on SiS 530 or VIA MVP4, just avoid.
The boards are:
- VIA MVP3 ATX board, that means only discrete graphics...
- intel 440 LX micro-ATX board, no AGP port, but it has a Rage128 AGP with discete 8Mb onboard.
Exactly which LX board? If that thing supports Coppermine (unusual, but not impossible) you could go up to Celeron 766 on it. Combo of LX and Rage onboard (sure it's a 128, not a Rage Pro Turbo?) sounds like MSI MS-6159, in which case there's no Coppermine support.
Assuming no Coppermine support, this is almost worst-case for Celeron (only integrated VGA SiS620 or i810 with PPGA would be worse), in which case you're definitely better off with the K6-2, as you can choose your own primary VGA (Rage is not bad, but not great either) and there are nice 3DNow optimizations for Voodoo2 drivers.
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Also i have the approach to have the K6-2 as an "time-machine" which the Celeron does not offers, so the voodoo2 is kind of useless when using it at rage of 386, 486 to early pentiums.
That's a very relevant requirement - you have lots of options to slow down the K6-2, both in hw (lower bus speeds, lower multiplier) and sw, that you don't have on the Celeron. IMHO clear-cut choice for the K6-2 then.
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- Voodoo2 with Platform 1.) K6-2 500, VIA MVP3, with Riva128 or RivaTNT2 + V2
- Voodoo2 with Platform 2.) Celeron 500 (i440 LX), onboard Rage128 AGP, or may a Geforce 2 MX (speed of an Geforce 256) + V2
Why not use the Gf2MX on the K6-2? That gives you the best of both worlds - VGA fast enough never to bottleneck your CPU for DirectX and excellend DOS VESA compatibility. Yes, PCI bus loses some performance vs AGP, but a Gf2MX should soundly beat a TNT2, even if the TNT2 is an AGP card (and particularly if it's an '-M64' low-end version).