gamefan_851 wrote on 2023-06-13, 17:19:
Doornkaat wrote on 2023-06-13, 11:16:
Why a 733MHz Celeron though? You should be able to procure a Pentium III 1000B easily and run it at 750MHz if your board can't handle 133MHz FSB.
Is the Celeron another OC champion?
That's good question. The celeron was recommended to me last year by the above mentioned retro guy because it is supposed to be rather powerful, cheep and also can be overclocked.
After doing some own research I am also more interested in getting a rather fast pentium 3 with 100 fsb for the Asus mainboard. I can go up to 1000 mhz with the p3 which I am going to do probably do . with a p3 1000mhz I should have all the power I need for the games I want to run.
the glorious power of the celeron 733 will still be good! (well, it'll be ok with all kinds of games into the year 2000, put it that way 😀 )
one minor funny thing - of course its tempting to always upgrade - get the fastest cpu for the board, but then the next board can take a P4 - then get the fastest for that board, but then a 775 can run faster and they're cheap, so get that, and get the fastest for that, but then there is a 2nd generation board for cheap, so get that, then get the fastest cpu for the board..... soon enough you may as well get a new PC 😀
the point, if any, is sometimes its just fine not to optimise anything at all and just enjoy a reasonable system for the purpose, and if its playing 9x games from 95-2000 then a celeron 733 with win98 and about 128-256 ram and a nice enough agp card (tnt2, gf2 or something) will give you all the quake 3, unreal, half life, Baldur's gate and so on that you want