No, no. P-II's lack the power too. Go for an AMD Athlon 850-1Ghz box with
about 256MB RAM or more. Like some of the original socket a's. Those would
be the cheapest best bang for the buck solution. I've run across too many
P-III's that just don't stand up after the customer unloads their wallet
into it where they could have saved a wad going older athlon.
-John
At 02:14 PM 11/29/2003, you wrote:
> >if someone has a spare Socket 7 (Pentium 233) motherboard *with* an AGP slot
> >that I can use for a MAME project (allowing maximum reuse of my CPU/memory
>
>Depending on what you're trying to run, a Pentium 233 might not have
>enough speed. I'd built a Pentium II box with this in mind prior to
>buying a real Neo Geo arcade machine, and it just didn't have the speed
>needed. I'd recommend a mid-range Pentium III.
>
> Zane
>
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