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900 mhz Celeron versus 800 mhz Pentium III - which one should I choose?
pressthebutton:
Hi guys! Some help needed :dunno!
I'm considering to use my old PC to run Mame on a restored cabinet that I've bought from a local dealer. My questions are:
1- should I use a 900 MHz Celeron (900/128/100/1.75v) or a 800 MHz Pentium III (800Eb/256/133/1.65v). Which one will give best results?
2- I'm considering to use 3 ram modules (128 single sided + 128 single sided + 256 double sided). I that OK for Mame?
3- Will I be able to play games like, sunset riders, final fight, metal slug, cadillacs and dinos, fatal fury...with this setup?
I will be adding a arcadevga and a Ipac soon.
Really need some help on this one... Thanks :notworthy:!!!
KDOG:
I would use the Pentiom 3 as long as you use an older version of Mame around .55 it wont be a problem . What OS are you going to use? I suggest spystyle dos boot disc here.
WaRpEd:
I agree about the P3 being faster, the celerons are to slow IMHO.
I'd try an Xp boot setup for ease of setup and hardware compatibility. I believe it was called Tiny XP beast edition.
Dos drivers are difficult to obtain and a 7 or 8 year old sound card is at the end of it's life anyway. As far as RAM goes use your largest in DIMM 1 and smaller in DIMM 2 or 3.
Cheers and good luck on your project
pressthebutton:
Hi KDOG and WaRpEd!
Thanks for the input!
I was hoping to run a DOS Mame with a front-end. Will spystyle do the trick? I've read that many people are using win98 with a special command line config that allows Mame to run directly without loading windows.
Also I´ve got an old 8 gigas harddrive that I was hoping to use. Is that enough?
Any thoughts?
:cheers:
SpeedEng:
does your mb take 133fsb chips? because if not than the p3 800 will be 600mhz running @ 100fsb :banghead:
then you should deff just use the celeron if the 133fsb wont work
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