Slot1 box would be smaller and more energy efficient

*chuckles*

It can be much faster.

Energy efficient though? Nah... The MMX 233 has a TDP of 17W, where as the Klamath PII 233 has a TDP of 35W, although they are both pretty low power. Depending on your motherboard, you could always opt for a faster Pentium II (or even III) with power consumption similar to the MMX 233, but far improved performance. Celeron 300A would be nice too 😀.

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Just a general question to see what peoples think about a socket 7 233mmx vs slot 1 233mhz (with/without/mmx) […]
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Just a general question to see what peoples think about a socket 7 233mmx vs slot 1 233mhz (with/without/mmx)

I have a socket 7 today ( which is suppose to be main retro gaming pc ) but i also have a slot1 matx board.

There reason for the question is that i have been wondering about creating a "smaller" retro gaming machine but still use old hardware.

Slot1 box would be smaller and more energy efficient, but speed wise i dont know if it would really be a wow factor but i could be wrong.

And ye, inside counts but so do space 😉

What generation of games to you want to play?
All DOS or some Windows games?

I would play some dos games and windows games.

Doh i already have a compaq presario 433 which handles dos games, this would be for the dos games that requires faster cpu like duke nukem 3d.

F2bnp wrote:

It can be much faster.

Energy efficient though? Nah... The MMX 233 has a TDP of 17W, where as the Klamath PII 233 has a TDP of 35W, although they are both pretty low power. Depending on your motherboard, you could always opt for a faster Pentium II (or even III) with power consumption similar to the MMX 233, but far improved performance. Celeron 300A would be nice too 😀.

Thanks F2bnp 😀 your cpu vs post was good 😀