First post, by bregolin
I have an Asus P3B-F and a sloket adapter, and so I can choose between:
- Pentium III 1GHz (133 FSB) Socket 370
Pentium II 450MHz Slot 1
The rest of the build is:
AGP Voodoo 4 4500 - hoping to put in a Voodoo 2 eventually
SB AWE 64
This build is aimed to be my daily driver and will be at my desk, connected to my main monitor, so it is what I'll fire up when I feel like playing some DOS games from the 90s, though some Windows games like the D3D version for Mechwarrior 2, GLQuake and Virtua Fighter 2 are not out of the question. I understand that with my needs, any of these processors would suit just fine, given that I mostly play FPS's like Doom, Duke3d and Blood, but wanted to hear other people's thoughts. Here's a short pros and cons list for each:
* Pentium III:
Pros:
- Highest clock rate, 133 FSB = more FPS 😀
- I get to use the sloket!!! Super cool and I always wanted to use one back in the day. I know, it's silly...
Cons:
- Locked multiplier - I do play some speed sensitive games every now and then, like Lotus 3, Jazz Jackrabbit, Alone in the Dark (trigerring run gets tricky) and Prince, so that could be an issue. I understand I could disable L1/L2 but I find that sometimes it causes some choppiness on those games
- 133 FSB - it's a bit of a hack on the i440BX chipset, and on this Asus board, it also overclocks the AGP interface to 2/3 of the FSB, something that could cause instability
* Pentium II
Pros:
- Unlocked multiplier- I can downclock it to 66mhz, theoretically
- I get to use a Slot processor! They're just charming, dontcha think?
Cons:
- Probably won't be able to run Duke3d or Blood at anything over 640x480
- I already own two Pentium III laptops (550MHz and 750MHz) so that speed range is already covered
Speak your mind 😀
IBM Aptiva 2162 - P55 166 MMX, 32MB, CS4237B + Wavetable, ATI Mach64 2MB / Win98SE
Custom PIII 750, 64MB, SB AWE64, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP / Win98SE
Sony Vaio z505 SuperSlim - PIII 550, 192MB, YMF744, NeoMagic 256AV+ / Win98SE