Reply 44360 of 52791, by Meatball
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-05-04, 10:48:I guess im a bit odd, I have little interest in anything older than a Pentium, and my lack of interest isn't because of the CPUs […]
I guess im a bit odd, I have little interest in anything older than a Pentium, and my lack of interest isn't because of the CPUs.
Its the lack of integrated systems on the older systems that I simply have no desire to revisit, I have several Pentium class setups I can use that are capable of running at XT speeds if I really need to run software that old and if I really need to then I do have a SBC 386 that I could use. (Now that I think about it, I have no idea if it even still works)
I would make an exception here .. a monochrome amber or green XT would be nice to have around, same for a CGA/EGA 286, they are rather unique due to the display adaptor and you can certainly make a case for using one with software that doesnt support VGA/Protected Mode. But if the software does support VGA and will run on a 386/486 then really a socket 7 Pentium/K5/K6 would work just as well if not better while providing integrated IO and you can even slow these CPUs down by simply disabling cache.
Socket 370/462 to me are retro setups, I consider anything pre SATA to fit that name perfectly.
I have zero interest, bordering on contempt for Super Socket 7 (and Aureal). There are even some items in my hardware list below in my collection I don’t care for, but absolutely nothing Aureal or SS7. I’m the oddball!
In general:
Turn offs:
Pre-Pentium II 440LX
Anything Super Socket Socket 7
Pre-ATI Rage 3D Pro
Post-ATI Radeon 8500 to today.
Between 8 and 9 Series nVidia
Post-66MHz Celerons
SCSI
IDE Hard disks
Pre-AGP video cards (some exceptions)
Aureal
CMedia
Pentium 4
Post 66MHz Celerons
Duron/Sempron
Cyrix
Anything AMD Phenom to today.
AT
NLX (Yuck!)
Turn ons:
Pentium II/III and Core2 to today
Between AMD Athlon - Athlon X2
3dfx/Quantum3D
3com NICs
Non-standard early 3D cards
Non-crippled Sound Blasters
NVidia up to 7 series
NVidia 900 series to today
SDRAM/DDR/SGRAM/GDDR
Beige cases
ATX