Have here a Asus PC built for Win98 in 2004 (2.8 MHz
CPU, 2 Gb RAM)
Nice CPU if gigahertz for efficiently structuring software, (I've
never run at 2.8Mhz, just around 4Mhz on old Intel 8088s or V20
NECs ... gotten yerself a Motorola in 64K segmented boundaries?),
though in the whirlwind of socket changes and compatability, comes a
point, least to me, I simply won't trust "newer" batches of MBs for
old CPUs (remaining stock that isn't yet shipped off by the boatload a
3rd-world market, South America, Egypt, or someplace). If a MB costs
$100 this year, in a year or two, if not better for mostly sooner,
it'll cost at least that to maintain profits at a cost-for-performance
perception [advertised] across comparable quality to run for an
incompatible "upgrade". Fair amount of leeway in all that, but, by
not trusting and going off the present distribution curves, buying at
oddball shops distributing older compatibility, is asking for
substandard equipment one gasp away from premature failure.
Everyone doesn't coddle old equipment, far from it, on a business
model for a two- or three-year, expectant landfill lifespan, and,
along with others, I've older gear "rated" for 3Ghz(@2);...shame to
admit, but if anything fundamentally goes wrong with, it's damned for
one slop-bucket of garbage. Don't know, but my socket 754, whatever
else it is to me, probably isn't in much better for a "sustainable
objective" than your 2.8Ghz. If it's gonna break, better you than my
7-year-old ASUS K8N-E+ using an AMD 754 3000.
