at what fsb are each running? are you sure you are not using the onboard ProSavage?

33 years old. Not surprisingly I love my 90's, but do occasionally let some later 80's or recent third millennium's pc stuff into my lair.

Nice and simple. I was expanding the range to include current games as well. I see, I keep to the 90's. But the structure could be the same: I would probably go with OS/API best match for 3D game reference, the year range would come up by itself. 1- Early 3D Acceleration. Windows 95. say 1995-1997. …

(...)So my question to the community is what rule of thumb might work well to sub-divide games of the post mid-90's period? Sort by year? DirectX? Resolution? Some essential CPU/GPU parameter? Whatever system it is, it needs to be simple.(...) What works for me, very simple, but after much thought: …

swaaye wrote: In practice a K6-2 500 MHz is going to be around a P2-266 for 3D game performance. 😲 That's roughly double the performance. For another system I'm building would a 400MHz k6-2 have the performance of a P2 at 200MHz? What would a P2 at 200MHz be equivalent on Pentium MMX terms?

Finished the download of Detonator 3, version 6.50! Thanks for your help. Will try the geforce2 setup. Nice tip about this Riva Tuner. Now for some gaming!

Yes, that is indeed my goal. A system only for DX7 games, well... and everything prior I guess. I also have the GTS model of the Geforce2, so what detonator drivers do you recommend my friend? 😀

Thank you all. You helped me make my mind. I'm going to keep the celeron and add the ti4200. No more messing around with random hardware (for now) 😉 Amazing job on the wiki! Thank you.

You are making me want to build both. :-| But I still have a few questions. For the Win98SE Coppermine 1.0GHz I only have parts that allow me to build: - i815 with 256MB at 133MHz - or Apollo Pro 133A with 384MB, for both I have FX5200 128MB/Ti4200/MX440 , I will add one or two Voodoo2 for straight …

Taking that ti4200 and the 1.0GHz to a i815 would be better? Thanks 😀

I seem to recall reading an online article about being able to play 2000's and even some 2001's games with a 400MHz k6-2, provided you have a T&L capable card and two voodoo2 in sli mode to cover different needs from different game engines and stay with 800x600 resolutions. Can't find that article …

I see. I can put a voodoo3 agp 16mb instead. That would solve UT engine's games problem.

I don't care about the gpu/cpu unbalance in this case. Will the k6-2 be a serious bottleneck though? Thanks.

Hello, I want to build a PC for DirectX 7 games and would like to use a Shuttle HOT-591P rev 2.0 which has the VIA MVP3 chipset and can cache up to 128MB of RAM. (it has 512k of L2 on-board) Would the following specs be enough? K6-2 500MHz 100MHz 128MB SDRAM 100MHz geforce4 MX 440 AGP Thanks.