First post, by bluejeans
My goal is to have all the mainstrem cpu speeds that an average person would have had from upgrading every few years. So far I have:
486 dx/33 (with 50 and 100 cpu's laying around)
Pentium 133
celeron 300
p2-450 (laptop)
p3-700
celeron 1ghz (in a point of sale machine, ddr2 memory so relatively recent)
intel atom n450 1.5ghz
athlon 2200xp
core duo e2160 1.8ghz
core2duo t7700 2.4
(not interested in speeds from this point onwards but for the sake of completeness...)
core2quad 6600
i7-870
i5 4690k
Imo it's a pretty good assortment to have different speed systems at regular intervals up to the present day. Obviously missing out on pre-486, and pentium 1 - I have a board that would let me underclock the 133, and it's fitted with a 166, but it's dead. Main reason I don't just use slowdown programs is because they seem to make doom actually slow, and not just jerky/low framerate.
Also, if I wished to share a hard drive between several systems, would windows 95 be the latest o.s that can handle being started on completely different systems without spitting chips? I know for sure that xp and onwards will blue screen with so much as a different motherboard. I've started 95 before accidentally on a different system and it seemed to cope.
And if I share it between all the systems enough, will it eventually autodetect and install the different video etc drivers, since they'd be on the hard drive from before?