First post, by Tenorman
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- Newbie
Hello All,
My current main DOS PC is a 486 DX4 100. This is a good speed for many things, but too fast for a lot of older games and way too slow for the later 640x480 games. I would like a platform where I could get much more granular with speed adjustment. Right now, the hard-coded 3x multiplier on the DX4 CPU limits options. I can go 75 or 100 mhz, or disable the L1 cache to bring the machine down to roughly the speed of a slow 386.
My (perhaps unreleastic) goal is to have a single machine where I can manipulate FSB speed and multiplier to support a very wide range of speeds, from slow 386 all the way up to 200 Mhz.
A lot of Socket 7 boards support 50 Mhz bus and 1.5 multiplier for the Pentium 75. Are there any boards that go even lower? I know that there are no Socket 5 or 7 CPUs slower than that, but it would it would be awesome if there was a board that allowed a 33 or 40 Mhz FSB.
[Compaq Presario 633 | DOS 6.22 / Win 3.1 | DX4 100 Overdrive | 28M RAM | SB16 CT2770A | SPEA Media FX (Soundscape S2000) ]
[GA-6BXC R2.0 | Win98SE | Via C3 Ezra 866 | 384M RAM | TNT2 32M | Voodoo2 8M | SB32 CT3670 | Ensoniq Soundscape Opus]