HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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Siggy12
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HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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Hello!!!
Just want to know which CPU is needed
for emulate perfectly the K6-2 300 afr66 with 2 voodoo 2 SLI on PCem.
is a intel 9900k @ stock enough ?
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Re: HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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Whoa! I believe is enough!
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Re: HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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Not at stock. If you can get it to 5 GHz or so then _maybe_.
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Well, stock is 3.60 ghz of course it won't work, but the 9900k reaches 5.00 ghz without overclocking, so I took that 5.00 ghz as stock
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That will most likely be with only one or two cores active though. For V2 SLI running flat out you're going to end up with 7 active threads, at which point you _will_ need to overclock!
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Re: HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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Thank You for the reply!!
or maybe the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X could perform better ?
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I don't know. I have neither CPU, and there's no magic formula for what host CPU you need to emulate a certain configuration.
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SarahWalker wrote: Fri 24 Apr, 2020 8:59 am I don't know. I have neither CPU, and there's no magic formula for what host CPU you need to emulate a certain configuration.
of corse!!!
maybe hoping in a reply who someone that have it.
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Here someone posted he has the 9900k
http://pcem-emulator.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=13164#p13164
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SarahWalker wrote: Fri 24 Apr, 2020 7:13 am That will most likely be with only one or two cores active though. For V2 SLI running flat out you're going to end up with 7 active threads, at which point you _will_ need to overclock!
How do you end with 7 cores?
1 for the CPU, 1 for each Voodoo2, so far I count 3 threads
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Re: HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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Each Voodoo2 has 1 FIFO thread and 2 render threads. So Voodoo2 SLI will use 6 threads.
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Great info, thanks for clarifying
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Re: HOST CPU needed for emulate K6-2 300 afr 66 With Voodoo 2 SLI

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I have a 3700X host running a K6-2 300, 128MB RAM, V2 SLI, S3 VIRGE, SB AWE32 guest. I use Win95 with Rain installed. Perfectly? Na, there are a few apps that can cause it to slow down. However, it does work for most games without an issue. I would say it more depends on what you're trying to do with it. A few examples:

Quake III Arena runs at 100% speed with a few tiny minor dips. Not overly noticeable though. Mostly 40-60fps with a few dips to the 20s on intense screens.

Daytona USA runs at 100% locked with 80% real CPU usage. Zero dips for me.

Diablo 1 however shreds the poor machine. Sits at about 84-85%. Dropping the CPU to a 233mhz allows it to run at 'full speed'.
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