Inside an Intel i486-DX CPU

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The intel i486--DX was initially released sometime in 1989. The 33MHz version, which is what this one is, was later released in 1990. Further improvements would be made, which resulted in this particular version of the silicon chip from 1992.
This CPU had approximately 1,200,000 transistors, and was made using the 0.8 micron process node.

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  • @JorisPauws
    @JorisPauws3 ай бұрын

    This already looks very complicated and its only 1,2mil transistors. Its insane how they can fit billions of transistors on something the same size nowadays.

  • @ld2048

    @ld2048

    3 ай бұрын

    In a other decade or two, we will be matching or passing the number of neurons in our brains

  • @furnacego2164

    @furnacego2164

    3 ай бұрын

    How big does that make the traces? 100 atoms wide maybe? I'm really curious, if you can answer that

  • @taktoa1

    @taktoa1

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@furnacego2164Minimum metal pitch at the 0.8 μm process node was around 2 μm, and about half that for trace width. The minimum distance between atoms in silicon is 0.2 nm, so a trace was ballpark 5000 atoms wide.

  • @taktoa1

    @taktoa1

    3 ай бұрын

    But nowadays traces are 20-30 nm wide at narrowest. So 100-150 atoms.

  • @furnacego2164

    @furnacego2164

    3 ай бұрын

    @@taktoa1 amazing

  • @BubblegumCrash332
    @BubblegumCrash3323 ай бұрын

    That CPU ran my childhood. Photoshop 2.0, 3D studio 2.0, WingCommader , Doom, DukeNukem 3D , Dark Forces etc etc

  • @orsonstarbuck

    @orsonstarbuck

    3 ай бұрын

    So many memories. This was around the time my dad bought a PC that replaced the Apple IIe

  • @neil1997

    @neil1997

    2 ай бұрын

    We had a DX2-66... And all the same games still needed serious config.sys and autoexec.bat fiddling to get enough memory 😂

  • @knivesron

    @knivesron

    2 ай бұрын

    Gaming stopped there too. We topped with doom and duke 3d 😢

  • @BubblegumCrash332

    @BubblegumCrash332

    2 ай бұрын

    @@knivesron I spent so much time making custom Doom WADs. I still have them on 3.5 discs. I have to dig them out one day

  • @knivesron

    @knivesron

    2 ай бұрын

    @@BubblegumCrash332 that would be awsome. I have a doom map myself its in the ramp 2023 pack check it out

  • @Brave2standalone
    @Brave2standalone3 ай бұрын

    That was my first CPU; 486DX-33 back in 1990 I believe! The machine cost $2,200 with 120mb HD and 4mb memory.

  • @maurodemello6078

    @maurodemello6078

    3 ай бұрын

    wow... I had the I286 in a Schneider Euro PC and my dream after that was to have a computer with that processor, but obviously my father couldn't buy it at that time because yes, was crazy expensive for him

  • @beverlychmelik5504

    @beverlychmelik5504

    3 ай бұрын

    Same

  • @huberthumphry280

    @huberthumphry280

    3 ай бұрын

    same, i486DX, 129mb hd, 4 mb ram but mine cost $1200 in 1991, that's what you got with Dell "quality"

  • @pamdemonia

    @pamdemonia

    3 ай бұрын

    My first was a 486 DX2-50 which ran at a blazing 50mHz .

  • @AutisticThinker

    @AutisticThinker

    3 ай бұрын

    Was my 2nd. I needed to wait several years for the prices to go down.

  • @Hopeless_and_Forlorn
    @Hopeless_and_Forlorn2 ай бұрын

    After a deadly mid-air collision over Cerritos, CA in 1986, the decision was made to equip commercial aircraft with an airborne collision avoidance system with the best technology available at the time. The TCAS system was activated in 1992 and has been protecting fliers ever since, even though its operations are rather primitive compared to the technology. available today. The first TCAS processor units installed in aircraft were based upon two 486 CPUs.

  • @EpicTyphlosionTV

    @EpicTyphlosionTV

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm a pretty big plane enthusiast, and not even I knew that!

  • @MajorCaliber

    @MajorCaliber

    2 ай бұрын

    Do you know which avionics vendor that was? Even back then there were SO many better chips for *embedded real-time* apps such as TCAS, than the klugey x86 family. :(

  • @2jpu524

    @2jpu524

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MajorCaliber which processors did you have in mind?

  • @MajorCaliber

    @MajorCaliber

    2 ай бұрын

    @@2jpu524 AMD 29k family, Motorola 68k line, MIPS, Hitachi/Zilog 64180, etc., basically standalone microCONTROLLERS vs. motherboard type microPROCESSORS such as the 486, the latter requiring all kinds of support chips, e.g. Northbridge, Southbridge, etc... not to mention the x86 CPUs have always been power-hungry, which means more HEAT to get rid of... things you might not want in a small expensive box, stacked like bricks amongst other avionics, all 8 inches from the pilot's knees.

  • @D0Samp

    @D0Samp

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MajorCaliber Convenience in programming is a big factor. Even though the timeframe likely misses the i486SL (first to run on 3.3V core voltage) as well as the i386EX (bundling all the support chips in a SoC package), this is still the era of single digit watt SBCs that you can shove into a box with a heatsink.

  • @agentdevil2096
    @agentdevil20963 ай бұрын

    This needs more recognition than those foolish podcasts.

  • @Floris_VI

    @Floris_VI

    3 ай бұрын

    I dont think its the same audience

  • @DrakeOola

    @DrakeOola

    2 ай бұрын

    ??

  • @jaredloveless

    @jaredloveless

    2 ай бұрын

    Which foolish podcasts?

  • @michaels8607

    @michaels8607

    2 ай бұрын

    yYou are right but then we have 2,343,567,499 people walking around confused..Most of them do not even know where their local library is located ,much less know about CPU chips...

  • @prestonfisher2632

    @prestonfisher2632

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@Floris_VII can affirm that it is. Though I don't think their content is mutually exclusive, I have been looking for this content for years.

  • @Flashjacks
    @Flashjacks2 ай бұрын

    I am privileged to have precisely one entire silicon wafer of this processor.

  • @raylopez99

    @raylopez99

    2 ай бұрын

    The entire wafer was defective? Unusual.

  • @Flashjacks

    @Flashjacks

    2 ай бұрын

    @@raylopez99 some chips are marked with a dot as defective but not all. There are a few healthy ones.

  • @raylopez99

    @raylopez99

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Flashjacks Don't they sell the healthy ones? Or was this a wafer they decided to keep as a memento despite it having chips you could sell? An expensive paperweight.

  • @Flashjacks

    @Flashjacks

    2 ай бұрын

    @@raylopez99 Well, it is a whole wafer, uncut. I bought it many years ago. It is designed to be framed together with the complete CPU, which I also have. I don't know how much this could cost now, honestly.

  • @raylopez99

    @raylopez99

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Flashjacks it's priceless ;)

  • @phillyphakename1255
    @phillyphakename12553 ай бұрын

    Fun fact, they stopped making the i386, the predecessor, in September 2007. The chip came out in 1985.

  • @Dhalin

    @Dhalin

    3 ай бұрын

    A lot of tech is used in places that aren't PCs; there were probably some Point-of-Sale, ATMs, etc running those kinds of processors. I just recently got a new job back in September and the previous place I worked at was still using machines from the early-to-mid 00's for the two PoS units, and also the server in the back was almost as old.

  • @phillyphakename1255

    @phillyphakename1255

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Dhalin yeah, it's all the weird industrial stuff that used 'em for that long. I saw it when I was repairing an MRI magnetic field trim controller. Had an '06 date code, and I was absolutely shocked, had to look at the Wikipedia. I guess if you used a 20 year old part on a 20 year old piece of equipment, it'll be 40 years old high technology still in use. Kinda cool to see computing history still chugging along. Still though, I would have thought an FPGA would have been cheaper.

  • @derekddanderson1

    @derekddanderson1

    3 ай бұрын

    I had a pc with that as the processor

  • @JoaoPedro-ki7ct

    @JoaoPedro-ki7ct

    3 ай бұрын

    How much were they costing in the 2000s? What was their availability like in comparison to microcontrollers and other microprocessors of the time?

  • @smoguli

    @smoguli

    3 ай бұрын

    Fun fact: the MOS 6502 processor was created in the mid 70’s and is still produced commercially to this day

  • @roycun5013
    @roycun50133 ай бұрын

    my first pc runs on that CPU.. still keping the CPU for old days memory.

  • @NotMe-ej9yz

    @NotMe-ej9yz

    3 ай бұрын

    I sold my first gaming computer to a guy I knew in highschool and we lost touch shortly after. A couple months ago I got back in touch with him because my best friend died (who he also knew) AND HE STILL HAD THE COMPUTER YEARS LATER! And it all still works! I bought it back from him just for the sentimental value. Thing is though the motherboard and the GPU were both parts I bought from my best friend that had died so they really mean a lot to me now that he's gone. I spent countless hours with him playing videogames on that computer so it's really nice to have it back again. I'm thinking about turning it into some sort of art piece for my wall (non-destructively of course since I might want to use it again later). Might put it in a big shadow box or something but I'm not sure yet. If anyone has any ideas lmk!

  • @JoaoPedro-ki7ct

    @JoaoPedro-ki7ct

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@NotMe-ej9yzI am sorta against the idea of letting any functional hardware being kept powered off for years and years in a row. I am unaware how much electricity that particular machine of yours consumes, but whatever you do I think it would be more interesting if you let it running at least for some amount of time with some frequency, especially if it can be used by trustworthy people who never touched a computer from that period, or who wants to relive their experience. In a nutshell, let the machine happily live throughout the coming years for as long as it can.

  • @microdesigns2000

    @microdesigns2000

    12 сағат бұрын

    ​@@NotMe-ej9yzyou can construct a picture frame with an LCD on it so your artwork can be played. If you have a photo of you two playing a game, that would be a nice addition to the frame. I would lay out all necessary pieces flat on a board. Everything doesn't need to be original. For example you can find a much smaller modern power supply and hard drive if you can get into work. Compatibility will be a problem. I would focus on keeping the motherboard and video card. If none of that will work, then I would power the motherboard and fan but hide an entirely new (and very small) computer that can run the project with modern hardware. You can run your old games in a virtual machine. When you construct this exhibit, be careful it doesn't turn into idolatry. Your friend is very important, but don't let your mind get caught in a trap because the people you still have are also important. That sounds religious because it is, but I mean it as a warning for your own mental health. Sorry you lost your best friend. :(

  • @ctbsancho2516
    @ctbsancho25163 ай бұрын

    Mind boggling. I want to see the machines that build these things.

  • @TheMrTape

    @TheMrTape

    2 ай бұрын

    Look up "microchip lithography" and there's many videos that will show you.

  • @robbdudeson346

    @robbdudeson346

    21 күн бұрын

    There are videos about it, look for silicon Photolithography

  • @robertherman58

    @robertherman58

    11 күн бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/loxtpamLitqqXdo.htmlsi=lsXHDfL-3Gv_t6-e

  • @ratnadas7659
    @ratnadas76593 ай бұрын

    I still get fascinated by how humans even made these beautiful objects, such tiny details and how far we have came from this.

  • @saito125

    @saito125

    2 ай бұрын

    And yet we still can't stop killing each other for the most mundane reasons.

  • @agnisinatria3520

    @agnisinatria3520

    4 күн бұрын

    It is from terestrial being, taught us to make a silicon chip.

  • @TheBlaert
    @TheBlaert3 ай бұрын

    We had 286, 386 and 486's in our computer lab at school. Everyone rushed in to get to the 486's first. Long time ago but we learned so much on those machines

  • @jordansean18
    @jordansean183 ай бұрын

    Over 30 years later I still have to support x86 architecture in all my apps 😅

  • @owenkegg5608
    @owenkegg56083 ай бұрын

    Beautiful chip layout

  • @lGuileWilliamsl
    @lGuileWilliamsl2 ай бұрын

    I still have my i486 DX-4 100 MHz CPU. still works

  • @youuuuuuuuuuutube
    @youuuuuuuuuuutube2 ай бұрын

    This CPU was a monster and a game changer at the time.

  • @Sphyxx
    @Sphyxx3 ай бұрын

    Intel = illuminati confirmed

  • @usern90210

    @usern90210

    3 ай бұрын

    Illuminintel?

  • @usern90210

    @usern90210

    3 ай бұрын

    Wait 486 is (6-2)(6+2)(6-0) 😮 666 😈 Why -2 +2 -0? It's because the 'minatii love chaos 🤔

  • @mrflamewars

    @mrflamewars

    3 ай бұрын

    That's 🎈🤡💩

  • @Justin-bn2ob

    @Justin-bn2ob

    2 ай бұрын

    came here for the illuminati comment

  • @ugraltnbilek

    @ugraltnbilek

    2 ай бұрын

    Intelluminati

  • @philippelhaus
    @philippelhaus2 ай бұрын

    Had this in 25Mhz with 4MB of RAM, loved the machine.

  • @JulianSortland

    @JulianSortland

    2 ай бұрын

    Same here! Did have a few people say that they did not realise that they existed.

  • @adammoss5284

    @adammoss5284

    13 күн бұрын

    Daily driver back in the 90’s then went dx2 and dx4 after

  • @peanutheadrules
    @peanutheadrules3 ай бұрын

    who else finds it absolutely beautiful we, humans, can build things on such a small yet technical scale??

  • @tubegor
    @tubegor2 ай бұрын

    That was my first PC, pure nostalgia with 4 MB RAM later retrofitted with a sound card and CD (with a proud 4X:) drive. Operating system with DOS 6.22 and Norton Commander. HDD 160MB and a hundred 3.5" flopies (drilled through to double capacity). My first and last game was Wolfenstein (wolf3d) and can even be played today with Raspberry PI 5 and DOSbox.

  • @markissboi3583
    @markissboi35832 ай бұрын

    Always good to see inside chips its a city so small you cant see the atom people working 24/7

  • @Xingularity
    @Xingularity2 ай бұрын

    Many, Many of these early CPUs have amazing details that can only be seen under a microscope..

  • @qwertytheone
    @qwertytheone3 ай бұрын

    Had a Compaq with a 486 DX2/66. Great computer for tweaking and adding components for performance.

  • @ReadieFur
    @ReadieFur3 ай бұрын

    I find it crazy how much detail of things there are in something that small, as in all the x y and z planes

  • @rickmccl71
    @rickmccl712 ай бұрын

    I remember when the 486 DX2/66 came out they sent me a sample, the HEATSINK WAS AS TALL AS IT WAS WIDE WOW MAN LOOK AT THAT HOLY COW

  • @Fighter4Street

    @Fighter4Street

    2 ай бұрын

    yeah, I believe I replaced my original 486 33, to a 486 66.

  • @paulvild
    @paulvild3 ай бұрын

    I worked at the plant that made the PGA that you popped that out of. Alcoa Electronic Packaging. This is pre-Pentium.

  • @kenloughman6384
    @kenloughman63842 ай бұрын

    It’s now 30 years since I bought my first PC which had this as the CPU!

  • @Dhalin
    @Dhalin3 ай бұрын

    I used to own one of those, it was actually my very first PC. A DX 486/33 running Win95. Couldn't tell you anything about the rest of the PC though as I don't remember what else it had in it. I eventually got that upgraded to a 66 and then eventually a 100Mhz, and I remember the day I had the 100Mhz put in it, the difference while running Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, how suddenly the whole game ran at nearly twice the speed. Night and day difference!

  • @HongVanKhangTruong

    @HongVanKhangTruong

    3 ай бұрын

    ⁰⁰

  • @Brave2standalone

    @Brave2standalone

    3 ай бұрын

    Maybe Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and DOS 6.0? Win 95 came 5 yrs after CPU 486dx-33 was released.

  • @Dhalin

    @Dhalin

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Brave2standalone It was definitely Win95. I was on a budget at the time as I didn't have a lot of money and wanted a PC, and at the time, Pentiums were out, but I was buying a used 486 because it was like half the price of a new Pentium-based system.

  • @orsonstarbuck

    @orsonstarbuck

    3 ай бұрын

    Omg. I loved that game!! Thanks for reminding me of that!

  • @SeersantLoom

    @SeersantLoom

    2 ай бұрын

    I still own a 486DX4 100 computer, simply because it is a bit different (not a normal MB but has CPU on a card), MB is just a backplane with ISA slots. Has GUS audio, internal UPS card, HD controller card, ethernet and, I vaguely recall, Trident video. Runs Win95, had some games on it (XCom, HMM, Doom...) I also have 286 laptop somewhere, 10MB HDD. Don't recall make and model ATM. Not much on it, just DOS and some serial terminal emulator.

  • @controlfreak1963
    @controlfreak19633 ай бұрын

    My first really stable computer was running Windows NT on a Dell i486-DX2 66Mhz with whatever maxed out memory was back in the day. I was astounded at having such a stable platform for engineering work.

  • @christ2290
    @christ22902 ай бұрын

    My first new-bought PC from my parents when I was a kid was a 486DX2/66. So, so many memories made with that machine. Lots of games, BBSes, learning the nuts and bolts of what make computers tick at the hardware and software level. Back when computers required knowledge to operate and repair.

  • @wallpaperroll3904
    @wallpaperroll390424 күн бұрын

    this is what people spent their time on before Factorio came out

  • @user-xi4zn4ly3o
    @user-xi4zn4ly3o2 ай бұрын

    Congratulate for engineer and architect all around this world your works has been one place completely, amazing…

  • @karlm9584
    @karlm95842 ай бұрын

    My first real CPU... 8088 before that one. So sweet. Soundblaster with MKEP optical drive. Doom. Good times.

  • @michaelrivard4879
    @michaelrivard48793 ай бұрын

    I find what you do is fascinating, please keep up the excellent work

  • @RusparD
    @RusparD3 ай бұрын

    My first "IBM Compatible" computer had one of those in it. Before that our family computer was a Commodore 64. I miss both, honestly.

  • @TheDiosdebaca
    @TheDiosdebaca3 ай бұрын

    It definitely wasn't my first processor (MOS 6502, Commodore 128 y'all!), but I have fond memories of building PC's with the 486DX 33/66 and 368 w/math coprocessor. I miss when computing was simple, games were made for fun not flash, and the world was simpler.

  • @IT10T
    @IT10T3 ай бұрын

    Appreciate the focal length changing, that really helps me understand the depth since I never seen once IRL that magnified.

  • @RobEspinoRealEstate
    @RobEspinoRealEstate3 ай бұрын

    This is simply amazing.

  • @Scapularbore
    @Scapularbore3 ай бұрын

    33 and a pyramid now that is not a coincidence.

  • @tbas8741

    @tbas8741

    2 ай бұрын

    But it has no meaning or reference to actual pyramids or any conspiracy like the illuminate as the latter is not even a real thing.

  • @rundmk00

    @rundmk00

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tbas8741 he says, guessing

  • @antigravity2206
    @antigravity22063 ай бұрын

    I have one of these. kept it for the memories of those days .

  • @Premier-Media-Group
    @Premier-Media-Group3 ай бұрын

    Man, that was top of the line with the built-in math coprocessor...

  • @JasonKaler

    @JasonKaler

    3 ай бұрын

    ahh yes, the coprocessor. That chip was great. I had the 486DX2 and it was faster than the first gen pentiums.

  • @DuchalvanWyngaard
    @DuchalvanWyngaardАй бұрын

    I'm from South Africa, I remember when this CPU was launched in 1992, I camped out at our computer shop for two days in order to be 1st in line to get my hands on it. What leap of technology it was back then.

  • @hammabuckshot5062
    @hammabuckshot50627 күн бұрын

    I still have the same one among others from 90's .looking back feels weird given how far this technology has evolved

  • @N4CR5
    @N4CR5Ай бұрын

    I have the DX2 in my collection. Beautiful to know it can look so amazing.

  • @wendy12354
    @wendy123542 ай бұрын

    It still amazes me how complex and intricate these things are, and this is a 35 y o chip

  • @isaacjjones
    @isaacjjones3 күн бұрын

    The CPU in the first PC I built was the slightly newer i486DX2-66. That chip was amazing. Surprisingly, I think I still have it.

  • @TurboTronics11
    @TurboTronics11Ай бұрын

    I always wonder how something so complicated yet so small in size works that good! This is not but seems like a magic!

  • @wipeout97
    @wipeout972 ай бұрын

    Damn I had one of those back in the day, cool video bro and RIP Packard Bell.

  • @fefnireindraer144
    @fefnireindraer1443 ай бұрын

    It is so cool to look at chips so up close.

  • @defaultHandle1110
    @defaultHandle11102 ай бұрын

    I needed one of these for such a long time. Those laggy graphics in MK2/3.

  • @MisterHolaMan
    @MisterHolaMan2 ай бұрын

    the level of complexity here is beyond what my mind can fathom

  • @coopbossman
    @coopbossman3 ай бұрын

    Yippeeeeeee this is so cool there's so much there and it's silly that there's lil Easter eggs in these too.

  • @Viki-zo1bc
    @Viki-zo1bc2 ай бұрын

    That thing is like a metropolitan city when you zoom in.

  • @En1337Rich
    @En1337Rich2 ай бұрын

    its so beautiful looking, my first computer was a 486DX2 66Mhz

  • @banksuvladimir
    @banksuvladimir2 ай бұрын

    Damn man, 33 mhz and features you could just about almost make out with the naked eye. Now look where we are. Still a thing of beauty.

  • @changedpepe7745
    @changedpepe77452 ай бұрын

    Damn, there is so much going on inside these small chips. Also this microscope shows some sick details. I'm just amazed how people came to this point and come up with all these amazing things. Texting from a phone while watching youtube. Astonishing if you ask me

  • @EvilmonkeyzDesignz

    @EvilmonkeyzDesignz

    2 ай бұрын

    I agree! It's amazing how far we've come, and just how much is abstracted away that you don't need to think about when using a modern electronic device.

  • @ericneering6357
    @ericneering63572 ай бұрын

    Every time you show a picture like this, it’s all I can think of it. Look at the gold look at the gold.

  • @alantripp6175
    @alantripp61753 ай бұрын

    The laminated ceramic package was an amazing component itself.

  • @TooMushRoom
    @TooMushRoomАй бұрын

    HOW ?!! HOW THIS CAN FIT INTO THIS LITTLE CHIP 😱

  • @reecep4016
    @reecep4016Ай бұрын

    I’d love a documentary on the invention of the micro chip, how they work how they’re made. Etc.

  • @spacepolice3227
    @spacepolice32273 ай бұрын

    Just bought every single one of the coins and 5' 003 from your website because they're just fucking cool and so is this content keep going man!

  • @shix13
    @shix132 ай бұрын

    I love all the little icons that mask designers included on the old chips. One of them has a cactus too :)

  • @bigjack470
    @bigjack47014 күн бұрын

    Such a workhorse cpu, that and the dx2 at 66mhz were phenomenal!

  • @HepauDK
    @HepauDK2 ай бұрын

    My first "IBM compatible" PC had the i486 DX2-66. :) I bought it back in November '94.

  • @channelfunnygoose163
    @channelfunnygoose1633 ай бұрын

    Chips are so beautiful. I wish I could open different ones up all day long. Amazing things at such a tiny scale.

  • @pbettselectric134
    @pbettselectric1342 ай бұрын

    Photo etching circuits and before that bread brooding . We have come a long, long way!

  • @donniev8181
    @donniev81813 ай бұрын

    Absolutely amazing!

  • @deanlawson6880
    @deanlawson68802 ай бұрын

    I totally had my first self-built tower PC running a 486dx50 processor! That thing was a screamer at the time! I still have that box in my old systems closet!!

  • @eTraxx
    @eTraxx2 ай бұрын

    I bought a 486DX2 at the PX at Ferris Barracks, Gr -- my friend took one look at my new machine and he ditched his 386SX .. and traded up in a couple day. Ahh the memories ...

  • @mustaa34
    @mustaa343 ай бұрын

    Even the fonts reflects 80's era.

  • @Ceagon
    @Ceagon2 ай бұрын

    had this chip, growing up. was really solid for the time!

  • @azharcassim2795
    @azharcassim27953 ай бұрын

    This stuff amazes me.

  • @swinde
    @swinde2 ай бұрын

    One of my older computers that I no longer have was a 486-DX2-66 at the time I thought it was so fast!. After a couple of heathkit IBM style computers, ALL of my computers , I have built from scratch, that is, case , motherboard and supporting boards bought and then assembled by me, and I bought Windows and other programs to use with them. It cost a little more, but I got the hardware I wanted. Ready built PCs usually have a few cards that are substandard to lower their selling price.

  • @paulstubbs7678
    @paulstubbs76782 ай бұрын

    I have one here, been running 24/7 for 30 odd years running 'stuff' around my house, nice and reliable.

  • @EvilmonkeyzDesignz

    @EvilmonkeyzDesignz

    2 ай бұрын

    That's impressive its lasted that long!

  • @joshstucki4349
    @joshstucki43492 ай бұрын

    Great memories. My dad got a 486DX2/66 CPU with 8MB of memory and a hard drive controller that actually had a tiny bit of solid state memory that gave him down to 0.9ms access time in certain scenarios. Combined with a Tseng Labs ET6000 graphics card, it was an incredible computer that could do anything. I inherited his Northgate 386DX/20 at the time. I had a Tseng Labs ET4000 card and I believe 5MB of memory. I could play Doom but only at the smallest graphics window. :)

  • @Littlestrawberryfox
    @LittlestrawberryfoxАй бұрын

    Ahhh what a flashback, this was my first chip I ever had, that with a companion Math-coprocessor what a power house it was back in the day love it. I think I still have the chip somewhere.

  • @datathunderstorm
    @datathunderstorm2 ай бұрын

    This was the exact same CPU in my first ever computer. That machine was a hand built computer that cost me £1,200 including a 14 inch colour monitor. The PC had the 486 DX-33 CPU, a 252 Megabyte HDD, CD-ROM drive, a humongous 4MB RAM and a 1MB VESA Local Bus Graphics Card - the latter which was the icing on that digital cake. It came with Windows 3.1 pre-installed, and was the machine that catapulted me into my life long IT career. It was not a brand name machine. It was expertly cobbled together by an experienced Computer builder who knew exactly what he was doing; the machine never failed on me once, and kept running faithfully even after I upgraded and gave it away. The 486 DX-33 chip had a maths coprocessor which made it a great CPU back in the day. It handled all the games of the day that I threw at it and was also excellent for desktop publishing apps of the era. That CPU opened a whole new world for me! I remember it most fondly.

  • @jaxnaturals
    @jaxnaturals2 ай бұрын

    The first computer I built was a 486 dx4 with 428mb hard drive and Windows 3.1. This was the last chip made before Pentium

  • @jagmarc
    @jagmarc2 ай бұрын

    One of the great things about being a Designer, is can put little Easter Eggs in.

  • @ShreddedWheat305
    @ShreddedWheat3052 ай бұрын

    Brings back memories...had a 486SX-33, bought a cache module for another $200 and later upgraded to a 486DX4-133mhz...was still slower than my friends Intel Pentium 60mhz.

  • @YoungBars26
    @YoungBars263 ай бұрын

    Crazy i never knew this existed. Cool videos i learned something new!!

  • @imambargahhaidria8607
    @imambargahhaidria86072 ай бұрын

    This was my 1st cpu in 1992. Everyone was amazed by its performance. It had 4 Mb of ram with 260Mb of hard drive. With dos 6 and windows 3.1.

  • @kiranm6749
    @kiranm67492 ай бұрын

    Great work bro I always wonder what's inside this chip

  • @peterhayden7136
    @peterhayden71363 ай бұрын

    Its the machines that make the machines that amazes me

  • @evextechreviews
    @evextechreviewsАй бұрын

    Whoooa… I‘ve never seen into a CPU like this before…

  • @henningokholm7912
    @henningokholm79122 ай бұрын

    With my background of mechanics in radio this is fun.

  • @jasonhamilton5756
    @jasonhamilton57562 ай бұрын

    I had one of those. Amazing tech back in the day. So much faster than the 286 and 386. It was a game changer. Now days we upgrade a PC to be able to have Windows support, but back then you did it to reduce boot times and be able to not have to wait for Word Perfect to catch up to your typematic rate. Doom and Duke Nukem played better on the Pentium when they came out but it was do able on 486 with some creative batch file manipulation to only load the drivers you had to have. Quake was not really playable on 486. Thanks for the delid.

  • @plateshutoverlock

    @plateshutoverlock

    2 ай бұрын

    Doom ran fine on this cpu (mine was a 486 dx2/66) Duke Nukem 3D could run, but there was a flaw in the engine where the game woukd drastically

  • @plateshutoverlock

    @plateshutoverlock

    2 ай бұрын

    Mine was a 486 DX2/66 Wolfenstein 3D ran fine. Doom/Doom II ran fine. So did Hexen and Heretic, both based on Doom's engine. Duke Nukem 3D sorta worked, but there was a flaw in the engine where the game would suddenly get very choppy if there were too many sprite objects in view. Other Build engine games also exhibited this problem. Upgrading to a Pentium 166 fixed this. Quake could run on it, but the experience was laggy even with the lowest screen rez and reducing the player view size and not very enjoyable. Again, much better on the Pentium. Every 2D platformer including those from ID, Apogee, and Epic ran fine with it. Older games that were written for an 8088/XT class machine often would run way to fast because they lacked CPU speed detection and expected 4.77MHZ. Mo'Slo sometimes fixed the issue, but could cause some very weird effects due to timing/sync issues, depending on how the game was coded. Mo'Slo and other "slowdown" software didn't actually slow down the CPU but rather it acted as a "middleman" passing the game's CPU instructions to the processor, and added something like (psudocode) i = 0 while i i = i + 1 next i between those instructions, in an attempt to slow down the game, but this was a primitive, brute force solution.

  • @chriss2283
    @chriss22832 ай бұрын

    When I was a kid, I upgraded a machine with this CPU to. DX-2 version that could clock at 66Mhz added 128 Kbs😅s of ram to the 64kbs and added a massive 2 MB Seagate hard drive(replacing it's tiny, sub megabyte HD as the primary drive). Neat thing you just showed me . Thanks.

  • @rohitlkv
    @rohitlkv2 ай бұрын

    I still have this processor ❤

  • @awesomegmg956
    @awesomegmg9562 ай бұрын

    I used this CPU to play my first (pirated) MP3. It struggled so much but when I can finally did it, I was so happy so does all of my friends. Ah good old days!

  • @andyscott5978
    @andyscott5978Ай бұрын

    And we had some great fun with them! Windows 3.11, Win 95. Lotus Notes!

  • @KyleRuggles
    @KyleRuggles2 ай бұрын

    My first CPU! Got it with my first PC, a Dell 486 DX 33mhz with 8 mb of ram a 512k cirrus logic video card and a 14 inch monitor that is at 640x480 but if I lowered the color to 16 bit I could go up to 800x600! I miss those days.

  • @sypoth
    @sypoth12 сағат бұрын

    I used to have one of these back in the day, it was my second personal computer I could call my own right after a 386 I bought used. I eventually upgraded to the 66mhz version through allot of work. Both was honestly nice considering that at the time the only other computers in the house were my sisters 8088, a TI 99 that no longer worked, and the family computer which was built in an era before hard drives were common meaning you had to boot from a 5 1/4" floppy and the only software we had for it were for Taxes, a Word processor, and a couple of primitive games that are nearly impossible to play today without emulating the slower speeds of the 386. Alley Cat was very much a favorite, there was also a helicopter one where you had to take out certain targets then evacuate people from a building.

  • @pjmorgan
    @pjmorgan2 ай бұрын

    I had a DX4. I forget the clock speed but 100MHz rings a bell.

  • @ROSS4422
    @ROSS44223 ай бұрын

    I've got one of these in an old tower, it still runs.

  • @steffenlze0178
    @steffenlze017823 сағат бұрын

    the Pyramide Symbol ist still there but since many generations on the outside, showing the "right" direction

  • @DPoner
    @DPoner3 ай бұрын

    I remember when the 4086 DX came out it was such an improvement. So much faster. I didn’t think I needed anything more than that.😂

  • @tron3entertainment
    @tron3entertainment2 ай бұрын

    What a killer chip back in the day. Miss those times.

  • @mtnmosin2740
    @mtnmosin27402 ай бұрын

    I cried when I learned that this wasn't fast enough to play games on my computer any more. So many good years playing Doom/2, Rise of the triad, Shareware demos Of Call of the raptor. So many games lost to time

  • @GalbadrakhDuna
    @GalbadrakhDuna2 ай бұрын

    still wonderful this old cpu ❤

  • @DaddyBeanDaddyBean
    @DaddyBeanDaddyBean2 ай бұрын

    I have a 486 SX right here in my desk drawer, from a PC I bought in roughly 1992. I paid extra to get the upsized 80gb hard drive.

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