First post, by dave343
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I've been playing around with a Pentium Classic 75mhz PC for the last week, finally got Windows 95c installed with the driver's etc and thought I'd test out some games, mainly Duke 3D, Quake 1, and Kings Quest 7. All played really well except Quake... it was "almost" smooth, you could tell under heavy action and running around there was some screen tearing and low fps. Duke 3D and KQ7 flew. The system comprised of:
Asus TX97-E
Pentium 75
24MB EDO/Fastpage (it's been a while since I could tell the difference)
S3 Trio64/V2 DX 1mb
Sound Blaster 16 (CT2940)
2.5gb Quantum Fireball 5-1/4 drive
To speed things up I dropped in a Pentium 166 (non-MMX), and swapped the ram from 24mb (4 sticks) to 32mb (2 sticks). I wasn't sure how much of a speed increase I'd see but 95 boots up ALOT quicker, and Quake is exceptionally smooth now, feels like a new game. I do have other CPU's MMX/K6/K6-2 etc but I like keeping the systems I build even across the board, part wise. I hate having a K6-2 system with 512mb ram, and a 1mb video card.
So that was my nostagia upgrade from the past 😀 In today's age where we upgrade from quad cores, to faster quad cores, I think using the system with the 75 for the last week and getting use to that speed, then moving to the 166 under the same conditions and same games, you remember what a real speed upgrade feels like.