First post, by TheVibe
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Which one would be better for what I am trying to play? The Gigabyte GA 5AX or the Intel440BX-2?
Ideally I would like to play 90s pc games. Games like Syndicate, X-COM, Ultima 7 and if possible Wasteland but then again I would like to play something like Baldurs Gate 1/2 and Age of Empires 1/2. These are all games from the nineties but the former are for computers with a 486 processor and the ladder are for Pentium pc's. I would like to play all of these games on one machine but I doubt that's possible since I have heard that the games meant to be played on a 486 have speed issues. I have also heard that I could disable the L2 and L1 cache to make the computer run like a 486 or even a 386.
The Intel 440 BX-2 would utilize a 300mhz Celeron with a built in fan heat sink or a 733mhz Pentium 3 also with a fan heat sink. The Gigabyte GA-5AX has a CPU running at an unknown speed. ( I am guessing it is under 300mhz) I rather not check since I have no clue how to put the heat sink back on.
Which motherboard has L1 and L2 caches(I am guessing these can be accessed and disabled via the BIOS)?
Which motherboard should I use for my pc build?