Which is best to keep? \ VOGONS

Reply 1 of 11, by Skyscraper

Posted on 2015-05-21, 16:45

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1) Pentium III 1.4Ghz Tualatin, Asus TUSL2-C board, 512MB (max it will take), Nvidia 6800GT AGP

Not a hard choice for me at all.

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Reply 2 of 11, by oerk

Posted on 2015-05-21, 16:59

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Both are cool, but the Tualation is a lot more versatile.

Dual CPU systems don't help much with games of that era.

Reply 3 of 11, by Darkman

Posted on 2015-05-21, 18:00

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the Tualatin system , which will run Win9x era games the best (on the other hand the PIII 700 system's lack of speed wont help much for DOS games as its too fast anyway). the dual PIII is very cool , but not as useful.

Reply 4 of 11, by Skyscraper

Posted on 2015-05-21, 18:03

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There is always the third choice, you could throw her out! 😉

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Reply 5 of 11, by silikone

Posted on 2015-05-21, 18:12

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Is it the S version of the Tualatin?
You could keep the second one and sell the first

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Reply 6 of 11, by Jorpho

Posted on 2015-05-21, 20:28

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AllUrBaseRBelong2Us wrote:
Which would be the best one to hang on to?

It all depends on what you want to do, doesn't it? If for some strange reason you need 1 GB of RAM and dual processors, then that's what you should keep. I for one can't really think of what you would need that for, though.

Reply 7 of 11, by TELEPACMAN

Posted on 2015-05-22, 01:39

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The Tualatin. You can allways keep/get a 700MHz coppermine cpu. That way if you need you can turn the tualatin system into a 700MHz one. It propabbly does not work the other way around right?

Reply 8 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2015-05-22, 09:51

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oerk wrote:
Dual CPU systems don't help much with games of that era.

^^^This!.. 😈

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Reply 9 of 11, by Skyscraper

Posted on 2015-05-22, 09:57

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A witch a witch!

Only witchcraft can explain why we all agree on something...

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Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 10 of 11, by idspispopd

Posted on 2015-05-26, 12:33

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To offer a different opinion: GA-6BXD has two ISA slots, TUSL2-C has none. If you want to play DOS games (especially older ones) ISA is useful. Of course dual CPUs are totally useless for DOS (and Win9x), you'd have to use w2k/XP/Linux to use those.
The Tualatin is great for Win9x gaming, and you should also be able to slow it down through FSB (100 or 66 MHz) if the board supports that.

Reply 11 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2015-05-29, 13:48

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idspispopd wrote:
To offer a different opinion: GA-6BXD has two ISA slots, TUSL2-C has none. If you want to play DOS games (especially older ones) ISA is useful. Of course dual CPUs are totally useless for DOS (and Win9x), you'd have to use w2k/XP/Linux to use those.
The Tualatin is great for Win9x gaming, and you should also be able to slow it down through FSB (100 or 66 MHz) if the board supports that.

...or Windows NT!.. 😈

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
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Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

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