> It seems like a worthwhile study if you want to know what CPU to buy to play specific old games that use bus locks. Games that will never be fixed. Fair. >

> It seems like a worthwhile study if you want to know what CPU to buy to play specific old games that use bus locks. Games that will never be fixed. Fair. > old games that use bus locks Yes the bus locks here are unintentional since LOCK on cache line is not sufficient, the CPU falls back to locking the bus.