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Upgrade from Pentium 133 to POD 200

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First post, by clueless1

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I was pleased to win an auction a few days ago for a POD 200 for about $18 shipped. This is the highest supported processor for my Packard Bell Multimedia C110. Some quick results-

3dbench: P133-115.1, POD200-144.7
PCPBench: P133-27.4, POD200-37.4
Speedsys: P133-98.37, POD200-148.66
Speedtst: P133-321.3, POD200-485.5
Doom: P133-57.06fps, POD200-71.2fps
Quake: P133-27.8fps, POD200-39.3fps

In addition, disabling L1 drops speeds to just under an AM386DX-40. Very pleased, this is the closest I've come to an ideal DOS PC in terms of playing SVGA games smoothly and playing 386-era games accurately. 😀

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Reply 1 of 7, by emosun

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you can just change the board out to a better board that supports the 233 or the ibm board that support the pentium 2.

Reply 2 of 7, by clueless1

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Nah, why would I do that? 😀

This beauty is not exactly standard form factor, so changing the board would not be a walk in the park.

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Besides, the POD 200 is working beautifully in it!

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Reply 3 of 7, by emosun

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Try unreal tournament , works on my m415

Reply 5 of 7, by keenmaster486

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😲 😲 I want that machine. Beeeeeyootiful! Perfect DOS gaming rig. What's the video and sound card in it?

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Reply 6 of 7, by clueless1

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It comes with onboard Cirrus Logic video that is not bad. Very compatible and average performance. I currently have a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI in there, which gives a bit of a speed boost. In a few days, the V3 will be replaced with a TNT2 M64 PCI. 😀

Came with a very nice Aztech-based SB Pro-compatible with Yamaha OPL3. But no wavetable header, so I replaced it with an Audican 32 Plus and Dreamblaster S1 wavetable for General MIDI. Got lots of great advice on here that helped me make these choices.

I have the original monitor, but I'm not using it at the moment. I only have room for one on my desk, so I'm using a 17" Princeton LCD @ 1280x1024. I KVM it between the Packard Bell and my WinXP machine.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
OPL3 FM vs. Roland MT-32 vs. General MIDI DOS Game Comparison
Let's benchmark our systems with cache disabled
DOS PCI Graphics Card Benchmarks

Reply 7 of 7, by emosun

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The biggest issue with these old packard bells is not enough pci slots! 🤣

You always have the problem of getting decent Glide gaming along with decent desktop color and resolution. While the voodoo cards have good glide , their desktop resolutions don't support any decent widescreen res's. And while newer pci cards support better resolutions , they don't support glide! it's a catch 22. 🤣

The only way to get decen't resolution for the desktop and have good glide playback are to use the voodoo 2's in sli but the system doesn't have enough pci slots for all 3. 🤣. ah well

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