BitWrangler wrote on 2021-07-02, 19:17:
Well that sucks. Not sure why you're getting a max of DX2-66 on that though, machines I have that max out around there for emulation are an Atom N270 and a Celeron Mobile 1.6 (Dothan). My T7200 (C2D 2Ghz) manages up to about Pentium 200, maybe more, I haven't been emulating anything that needs more than about a P-166.
I don't know if you've heard about putting socket 771 Xeons in quad 775 boards, but that might get you a bit of a speed bump for cheap, they sell for under $20 USD and with the cache are equivalent to Extreme Edition Core2 Quads. Details.. https://www.delidded.com/category/mods/
Yes, unfortunately my motherboard wouldn't accept it, even though I mod. It is a simple oem motherboard, there are no instructions in the bios to work with anything above a quad Qxxxx
I think the only viable solution would be for me to save some money, and buy a new board to use a pentium g4560 And in the future, upgrade to a better processor.
In the past i had an asus prime b250 or something, there was an i3 7100, 16gb ddr4 2400 with intel optane nvme, and a radeon rx470. It was a great computer, I was planning to upgrade to an i7 7700. But then the crisis came, and I was selling the parts, until I had to sell everything and use a core2duo with ddr2 memory. Luckily I found a slightly better kit with a core2quad, which I swapped out some capacitors, and I'm using now.
as for performance, there are two interpretations of "working" the pcem. One is to install windows and some games, and run them satisfactorily, with little lag, and few sound problems. (but if you look at the top bar, the marker should show 100%, but it will be showing something lower, which means your host is not being able to maintain full speed)
The second interpretation is to observe the marker in the title bar, which must show 100% all the time. In the meno misc -> machine, you can see a graph that shows the execution speed, which should always be 100%. Below that, it means that your computer is struggling but is not able to maintain the speed of the emulated machine, that is, your computer is running with a slow-down.