Fastest CPU ????

Thinking of getting a new PC, and I'd like to know if anybody knows which of the three is fastest for a game like GP2 which doesn't support any 3D cards, Pentium pro [ it's supposedly much faster than anything when running games from DOS ] , Pentium 200mmx or AMD K6 200 . Then there's Pentium II coming out next week,but supposedly is not really good for the price [ P Pro outruns it from dos mode,easily ]. One note, P.Pro I'm talking about is 200 [ obviously ] with 256k ,not 512 which is too expensive [ $1000+ for the chip ,alone ]

I can't compare my PC with others, 'cos I can't afford three top notch PC's. But my PPro200 runs GP2 very well, it's doesn't do full detail, but I hear that there isn't a PC that does full detail and smooth graphics.... so either wait longer for quicker PCs or just go for it. My spec is Pro200 32meg RAM 4 meg Millenium graphics 12x CDROM This plays most games very well and the majority run well in a DOS session of Win95, but I do an F8 boot of DOS for GP2 to give it a bit more memory. James Long

Everything seems to point to P.Pro 200 as the fastest one in dos ,but Directwave's K6 with 32 mb SDRAM, 512k, new TX chipset and so on for only $1560 [ no monitor,modem ] looks very good right now, with the money I save I could get a 3dfx board and a modem. Anybody tried GP2 with one of these????

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> I can't compare my PC with others, 'cos I can't afford three top notch > PC's. But my PPro200 runs GP2 very well, it's doesn't do full detail, but > I hear that there isn't a PC that does full detail and smooth graphics.... > so either wait longer for quicker PCs or just go for it. > My spec is > Pro200 > 32meg RAM > 4 meg Millenium graphics > 12x CDROM

I agree with James. I've had my P6200/256 for over a year and I think it's great. I choose to have my details maxed, with nothing in the mirrors but the cars floating on a field of blue. And no sky. I run my FPS at about 21 or 22 for most tracks. To me, this looks like "The movies" as far as smooth goes. For Monaco I need to turn it down to 18 or 19, which does show, but I find it very playable. When I spin and smoke covers the screen, the P6 goes to it's knees, perhaps 2 frames a second, but when I'm driving right, I'm very happy. With the frame rates mentioned, the Processor Occupancy does sometimes spike over 150%, but it's in the 60-100% range most of the time. I am talking SVGA, of course. I'm using fastvid to optimize my P6 and support chips. Someday I expect that it's magic will be part of every P6 BIOS. It's free, so if you get a P6, check it out. It's NOT a TSR, it runs at boot time and turns on some performance features that I don't understand. Remember, the P6 is optimized for 32 bit code, rather than DOS with it's small segments that require the segment registers be changed all the time. The racing sims and the flight sims we talk about here are DOS4GW programs. DOS is 16 bit code, but DOS4GW presents our sims with a nice "flat memory model" 32 bit environment in which to run. So the P6 should have an advantage. Like James, I can't afford a top end Pentium just to compare GP2 on. I keep hearing people settling for lower frame rates on their Pentiums, but it's hard to know what detail level they demand, or what Processor Occupancy rates they will tolerate. Larry