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| Carsten Carlos:
--- Quote ---450 mhz was the fastest pII ever made --- End quote --- Most P2-motherboards can also take a P3 - have a look at your motherboards-website. However, you can't use a coppermine in most cases as they need different voltages. If your board is slot1 and you can set the multiplicator to e.g. 8 for 800MHz, you might get a cheap adapter to fit Coppermine-P3's like a P3-800 in this small housing (have forgotten the name). On my P2-Board I drive a P3-800 for years now and it works perfectly this way - and it's a) very much faster then the P2 b) needs low current and produces less heat |
| raist0069:
--- Quote from: Apollo on June 10, 2003, 04:45:08 pm ---An 800GHz CPU with only 128MB RAM will rip through most game --- End quote --- Wow, thats one fast cpu ;D |
| skirge66:
I would go for the later model pIII's from the wilamatte line 7-800mhz( replaced coppermine in the mainstream)...they should be very cheap, still plenty available, it's what's being loaded into x-boxes should be more than powerful enough |
| Justin:
--- Quote from: jakejake28 on June 11, 2003, 01:03:24 am ---hey justin, where'd you find that? i can find similiar deals in town, all these small-town cp bussinesses run by resident geeks. sounds like a deal. maybe i could upgrade to a 3 ghz for cheaper... --- End quote --- I bought all components at dealsonic.com they had the best prices when I checked through pricewatch.com Allways go to pricewatch before purchasing any computer parts... |
| Lilwolf:
btw, there is a few mame games that 256mg isn't enough isnt there? I thought one required 300mg of memory. memory is SUPER cheap... just don't buy any on such an old computer (because you can't use it later). Also, when looking for a motherboard. Stry to stay away from onboard video. Really sucks... but this will add about 50 bucks to the system. The super cheap boards usually have a super crap video card on them, but you cant disable them. But processor speed is king for emulation..... As long as you have enought memory... extra memory doesn't do anything but allow a game to be loaded... |
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