LGR-viewing veterans will know my Steve1989MREInfo references go back a ways 😁 kzread.info/dash/bejne/moyfk6OjgreYgM4.html

@nehoymenoy3845

2 жыл бұрын

They always catch me off guard, but I'm glad to know you're into the same obscure KZread oddities I am.

@pgriggs2112

2 жыл бұрын

My channels are all colliding! Now do This Old Tony and LockPicking Lawyer!

@stridermt2k

2 жыл бұрын

INDEED! I love this channel!

@tuff_lover

2 жыл бұрын

No hiss, nice!

@SNLiszt

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that vid... 2018... oof, that hurts

The one thing i do NOT miss from those days is configuring jumpers

@rondee

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was kind of nice! 😬

@mortrek

2 жыл бұрын

It seemed annoying until the fancy PnP stuff failed you and you wished you still had jumpers. I don't mind explicitly configuring stuff. It was also generally better for DOS, since PnP usually required drivers or TSRs. I hated PnP until it got good enough to be totally transparent. Even then, early jumperless motherboards could be very finicky.

@Droogie128

2 жыл бұрын

I had an FIC motherboard back then. It was jumper hell. I believe it was the VA-503+ socket 7.

@mortrek

2 жыл бұрын

@@wazaagbreak-head6039 yeah things are going great now

@tomokokuroki2506

2 жыл бұрын

And cutting your fingers on stuff.

It’s like Clint read my mind. He said accessory packet and I immediately thought of Steve… nice.

@dmacpher

2 жыл бұрын

“Nice”

@mkelly0x20

2 жыл бұрын

"Nice hiss."

@horacegentleman3296

2 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@JenniferinIllinois

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

@fensoxx

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

"So many things to test all the time" - LGR unable to keep up with the tech avalanche of 30 years ago

@LGRBlerbs

2 жыл бұрын

Still catching up on the mid-90s, it’s true

@MattExzy

2 жыл бұрын

The 90s really were a time if you bought a computer, it'd truly be 'outdated' in six months, or at least partially outdated. My PC now is six *years* old, and there's honestly no reason to replace it.

@maxxdahl6062

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattExzy The C64 lasted for 12 years.

@coffeepot3123

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattExzy With windows 11 you got another 4 years. I'm going over to Linux as i don't want to upgrade my lovely hardware.

@anonUK

18 күн бұрын

​@maxxdahl6062 It was an extremely popular computer, so it was supported until the day Commodore collapsed- but by that time, there were "electronic organizers", calculators and updated Game Boy type devices with specs similar to/ better than the C64.

"Don't see any coffee instant type 2" .... nice.

@BenWillock

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't get it out on to a tray, either

@Breakfast_and_Bullets

2 жыл бұрын

Confirmed: Clint watches Steve!

@hayleyxyz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Breakfast_and_Bullets He did a funny imitation of Steve in part of one of his videos a while ago. I think it was it was on his main channel; can't remember. I actually found Steve's channel from that lol

@Breakfast_and_Bullets

2 жыл бұрын

@@hayleyxyz I must have missed that one

@merlyworm

2 жыл бұрын

Doesnt everyone watch Steve1989? ....Nice hiss.

I keep imaging duke nukeem saying "overdrive" whenever this boots up.

@xPandamon

2 жыл бұрын

There probably are ways to actually make this a reality I mean changing the boot sound was a possibility with other OS versions too

@expendableround6186

2 жыл бұрын

And I can't help think of Riviera's "Overdrive!" meter.

@plan7a

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps an S'Express - 'Theme From S'Express' ('Overdrive' reference or two when it boots instead?), and when turning off - 'Oh, that's bad!'?

If I remember correctly, the Pentium overdrive was the same basic performance as a 486 dx4 100 (as seen here) but it included the additional instruction set of the Pentium. So if for some reason, software really required a Pentium cpu to work, that was your solution. A lot of people bought the Pentium over drive thinking it was better than the 486 and it was not.

@brokeandtired

2 жыл бұрын

Well it was faster...but it was more for keeping an old office PC alive for a few more years..than a serious upgrade. PC's were hellishly expensive even for basic PC's back then...it was a cheapish upgrade.

@hugiee

2 жыл бұрын

@@brokeandtired Had to chuckle at this comment. Price is relative, and back in the day, early 90s, the price was WAY more reasonable than during the latter half of the 80s, we're talking 8088 through 80386 class. That 80386 was hellish indeed, the "Compaq 386" was a dream out of reach.

@Walczyk

2 жыл бұрын

@@brokeandtired faster how??

@MrKillswitch88

2 жыл бұрын

@lungshadow The FSB and the external cache was always the weak link that only really improved when the L2 cache was integrated onto the cpu. The memory controller was more often than not the main culprit where there was only about a third of the expected bandwidth vs what the ram of the period was often rated for.

@HardRockCamaro

2 жыл бұрын

@@hugiee The move to a 32-bit bus meant the 386 needed a much more expensive motherboard and RAM setup too, same situation as going from 486 to Pentium (which externally moved to 64-bit which means a more expensive chipset, ram and board design).

lets get this out onto a motherboard..nice.

@1nsanejochem

2 жыл бұрын

This is Blerbs1989

@scopeshadow4432

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that, he posts Field Ration videos monthly.

@AdamIsUrqed

2 жыл бұрын

*cuts plastic* "No hiss" "This spray dried chip has nice, robust, earthy overtones with a slightly plastic aftertaste."

@netsurferx1

2 жыл бұрын

...Mmmkay.

@neonaffliction

2 жыл бұрын

*Nice click*

I remember getting a Pentium 63Mhz Overdrive Processor for my IBM PS/2, upgrading from a 486/66. It actually didn't work initially, we fortunately lived near a Microcenter and one of the associates informed us that we needed a new bios for the new cpu to work. $10 and 1 new eprom later and I was rocking Command And Conquer Red Alert like it was my job. How I miss the good old days.

@TheVanillatech

Жыл бұрын

Rapporting?!?! Acknowledged!!!

Shame no coffee instant type 2. Steve would be disappointed 😔

@TastingKitty

2 жыл бұрын

I died laughing when I heard that reference 🤣

@amadeusagripino6862

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@braydenh190

2 жыл бұрын

No smokes either

@Sammmeow

2 жыл бұрын

Let's get the processor out on a reclosable chip tray. Nice.

@kaczan3

2 жыл бұрын

OK, femcel.

I bought one of these as a 13-year old, over optimistic kid and then proceeded to try to install it in the wrong socket, bending the outside pins. Lucky for me the store owner was good sports about it and was able to bend them back and gave me a full refund.

@scoobyrex247

2 жыл бұрын

What year was it and how much?

@squirlmy

2 жыл бұрын

@@scoobyrex247 any 13 year old being able to buy these must have been pretty rich. Certainly he could afford a better KZread name than you!!! lol

'Coffee instant type 2' Inhales from cigarette 'I haven't heard that name in a long time'

@psychorabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

Nice dry pull on that 75 year old cigarette

@flaturiah

2 жыл бұрын

@@psychorabbitt *coughing profusely*

@jon-paulfilkins7820

2 жыл бұрын

Lets get this out on the Tray ;)

@colearmoryllc

2 жыл бұрын

Nice hiss ?

@fensoxx

2 жыл бұрын

Nice

A LOOOONG time ago, I had a 486-DX50 that I could overclock to 66MHz on an older VL-BUS mobo. I had to physically replace the oscillator to do so. So front side, processor bus AND cache ran AT 66MHz. It smoked my DX4-120 in most CAD and math operations. It's amazing how, back in the day, FSB was KING! I had CAD customers who insisted on using PentiumPro 233MHz even after the PII-400's came out. The PII's used 66MHz cache bus, whereas the PPro's used native FSB for the cache clock. They really slayed!

Clint! teach me things from my past that we couldn't afford as geek kids!

I will always fondly remember the very first time I fired up Quake and watched in awe the dark goodness of the Necropolis demo in all its glory on my 166MHz Cyrix system back in 1998 after unpacking 17 pirated ARJ-compressed diskettes. Aaah, good times!

@TheVanillatech

Жыл бұрын

I remember buying 22 disks from PC WORLD thinking that I had to put the RAR files on discs, when I downloaded Terminator : Skynet from an FTP site. It was later that day I found the .nfo file and felt like a complete twat... What a game though! Played surprisingly well on the AMD PR-133 I was using at the time. Actually ended up buying the game. Like any honest Pirate should! ARRRR!

4:11 that MRE reference was pretty... nice.

It feels so weird to see a new and sealed 486 box, my brain has started to see the processors of that era as archeological artefacts for some reason

Blessed with a 20 minute video on the second channel! How do you sound so nonchalant about changing the jumpers? "Only a few" What? SO MANY

@LGRBlerbs

2 жыл бұрын

After years of screwing with the same set of them, it becomes pretty mundane :)

I love that LGR’s MRE is an Intel Overdrive!

@ericmdk

2 жыл бұрын

yum!

@NonsensicalSpudz

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickglaser1560 lets get this out onto a motherboard.. nice

After Clint mentioned that the accessory pack didn't include Instant Coffee Type 2, I was waiting for him to say "now let's get this onto a tray...NICE!"

I think the fault lies with the ISA bus speed or the Chipset used, Shelby from Tech Tangents ran into a similar issue with the same 486 chip.

I love how that SCSISelect™ line just straight-up lifts the curtain on how they did the graphical logos.

I know this is Blerbs but your skill of filming CRTs never ceases to amaze me. It's beautiful and truly appreciated.

Your enthusiasm is absolutely infectious. That's what I think.

Man wish i could be as happy with my job as Clint

I worked in a PC store when those CPUs were hot... We used to call the DX4-100 and DX4-120 processors "Pentium killers". Significantly cheaper, and worked just as well on CURRENT FOR THE TIME software.

@TheT0nedude

2 жыл бұрын

Not for floating point software, Quake also runs MUCH smoother on a P60 than even the dx4-120 because of this.

@soylentgreenb

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheT0nedude Floating point games didn't really exist at the time. If you bought a pentium for FPU performance that would only have been justified with CAD or something that actually used floating point.

20MHz faster than a supercomputer from 20 years before. Stuff moves quick!

Clint, Adrian, Phil... Perfect video!

Your videos are always awesome!

4:10 I knew he watches Steve 😂😂

I bought one of these new in 95 or 96. Made a huge difference over what I had before (33?). This was the best era for the PC.. when you could just plunk in a different CPU and see a major change. PCs are plenty powerful today but they're not as fun as they used to be.

@KL1FF

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. _That_ era of massive performance gains with just a CPU swap. Systems back then were more CPU-bound, too. Todays are more diversified, thus less "spectacular" when upgrading single parts (unless you know what kind of performance you're looking after). _sigh_ I miss those times.

@travis1240

2 жыл бұрын

CPU upgrades aren't dead... at least on AMD if you buy into a new socket architecture there's a good chance you'll be able to pop in a chip 2 generations later. I went from a Athlon 64x2 to an AthlonIIx4 on AM2+ and recently from a Ryzen 1600 to a Ryzen 3700X on AM4. But yeah it's still not quite like popping in a 486 that's literally 3x faster. sigh.

@marcusborderlands6177

2 жыл бұрын

You can totally have a massive jump like that today. Upgrading from a Celeron or pentium to an i5 is a massive jump. Same with an athlon to an r5

@TechTimeTraveller

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusborderlands6177 I've noticed big gains going from an ancient i7-920 to a Ryzen 5.. but it still doesn't feel quite as across the board dramatic as it did back when I was upgrading in the late 80s and early 90s.

@marcusborderlands6177

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechTimeTraveller in terms of general OS "feel" (i guess thats the term?) its not that big of a difference, but games and programs run WAYYYYY faster on modern cpus, although a 920 was a decent cpu to begin with. If you just want that feeling of everything being wayyyy faster, try slapping in an ssd, felt like when i went from a single core pentium to a 3 core phenom back in the day lol

crazy how those ol sounds of games starting up like give ya that blink of absolute joy you felt back in the day

I just turned 40 years old on July 17th, and nothing gets my attention more than seeing "new old stock" for old electronics, ESPECIALLY audio gear.

if I remember correctly there were a rash of 'Fake write back cache" motherboards by dubious manufactures back in the day that were poor performers. One of the caveats was the bus speed as well. You could get better performance from a native 486 @ 33Mhz than a Pentium Overdrive @ 25Mhz. Thanks for the great video, I had forgotten much about my early years as a system builder back then, a lot of forgotten knowledge that was completely useless until now.

@sierraboney1394

2 жыл бұрын

Yep there was indeed, I was one of the people that ended up buying one and not knowing till later! I don't remember the make of it but I later on found out that the cache ram was fake despite it saying it had 256 kb Write -back at bootup (rigged bios I assume) as a test program or two that I used said it was 0 kb! Couple that with the 'It's ST' DX2-50 Cyrix clone I had on it and it was probably quite a bit slower than it should've been!

You down with ODP? Yeah, you know me!

I love the nod to Steve in this video! I was thinking the same thing when you said accessory packet and put back on a shelf as a display piece… nice!

@iKilledAppl3

2 жыл бұрын

Also amazing video as always Clint!

Unboxing old tech will always be interesting to me, its the coziest content

When I was working on those systems when they were new, I always found the SIS chipset boards to be a bit slower. Also, found that not all cache chip configurations and cache vendors the same. Max cache memory on some of those boards also slowed them down slightly in some configurations.

"No Coffee-Instant Type II." I'm just waiting for you to next say "Now let's get this out on the tray...NICE!" Shout out to @Steve1989MREInfo

My first computer has this processor in it, still have the system after all these years and planning to restore it to its full retro glory

Nice overclocking. Great content as well. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

I would love for you to send one of those registration cards in one day, just to see what happens!

@GTFour

2 жыл бұрын

I think should photocopy and send in every single one every time and see if anything ever comes back lol

Had this processor as a kid - was such a massive upgrade from the 386 we had

uhhh this is gooood! Cant wait too see...Long time fan of you!

This brings me back memories of my first computer.

4:09 "lets get this Steve1989MREInfo reference onto a video, NICE."

Nice SteveMRE reference LOL!

You brought back memories with that Quake time demo. I remember downloading it on MY AMD486 DX4 100 and it ran so bad (same as what your getting here) I literally drove to Fry's Electronics, and bought the parts to build a Pentium system, just so I could run it. Good times!

Woo, that's the CPU i upgraded my first i486 DX-33 machine with! Thinking back, with the little knowledge I've had about computers in general back then, I'm lucky I didn't explode anything and the upgrade went super smoothly :)

You know you’re in for a treat when Clint breaks out the pocketknife.

LGR + Action Retro are some great nostalgia.

I had a 486DX2/66 I sold to a guy on eBay years ago. In my ad I state some motherboards could be jumped to change the base speed to 33MHZ, and thus make the PC even faster. The buyer had one such pc, a 486SX/16. He jumpers the MB and reports back to me how blazing fast his "old" PC has become. He was happy, I was happy to hear it, and got a nice feedback for my trouble. 😁

@TheVanillatech

Жыл бұрын

I bet he thought it was christmas, the difference must have been huge!

@tron3entertainment

Жыл бұрын

@@TheVanillatech - When I went from 33 MHz to 66 MHz it was a 50% increase in performance. Which doubled when I put in my DX/100. DX/133 saw no additional improvement. Turned out to be a "status" upgrade.

Back in Dec. 1993 I had a 486 PC, had a 486SX-25 (surface mount), also had onboard 1 MB Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 Vesa Local Bus video. Around May of 1995 I upgraded the RAM from 8 MB to16 MB (70ns), and installed an AMD 5x86-133 CPU (raised the system bus speed from 25MHz to 33 MHz using the system board jumper switches), worked perfectly. Full-on beast mode. I remember I was always able to get DukeNuke 'Em 3D to run at 60 FPS at 1024x768x8 on rails, throughout the entire game. My monitor was a 15" ViewSonic multisync glass CRT - loved it. I also ran Windows 98, RedHat Linux 5.1 and Sun Solaris x86 on it, all perfectly. 500 MB Quantum Fireball IDE drive, and a Teac 52x speed CD-ROM drive. Thing was a beast, but a lighting strike zapped it back in 2001.

"Greetings and blerbs" is going on my christmas cards this year

Can't beat a fast 486, I remember a friend of mine having a DX4-120 when we'd all moved to pentiums. It was still hanging in there and cool even back then :D Love the little steve1984 nod there too ;)

@deadaccount6135

2 жыл бұрын

@Mat Speedle Heck yeah, I had one too, a cyrix chip, and as long as the games or programs didn't look at processor type, only speed, I could run stuff meant for pentium 90/100. Good time for building PC's back then for sure. 👍

@travis1240

2 жыл бұрын

A fast 486 still sucked at Quake though... Couldn't compete with Pentium-optimized assembly code.

Love the woodgrain videos thank you

I love how much you use your iPad now. Always looks neat! Always makes me want one - then I notice I HAVE the current pro and just don't use it much. :D

I liked that Steve MRE reference 🤌

If you can set the cache to Write-Back instead of Write-Through you will improve performance considerably!

The higher the tower case, the bolder the owner's pride 😄 thanks for bringing up these good old memories

Love these cpu upgrades just show stuff that I like but I don’t have to pay money to do it my self I can watch a vid and get the same satisfaction and enjoyment out of it

Has to be one of the most bizarre 90s upgrades ever. I was selling Socket 7 white box systems at the time and I would have people bring these in wanting a K5 upgrade. Like they thought they could put a K5 on top of their overdrive.

Played _so_ much Quake on my DX4 100MHz, tweaked & reduced window size 👌

@iantellam9970

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it could run pretty playably tbh.

486 DX4 100 ... such a awesome cpu. Had one for a couple years. Let's get this cpu out into the socket! Nice!

I used to run Quake on my desktop pc using that processor, so much good memories :D

If you want the fastest Intel 486, you should get a DX4 with the &EW print on it. It has a slightly improved core and faster cache. And it should run in Write Back.

Woot Woodgrain 486, er Pentium upgrade video. Time to update my play list Maybe I'll binge watch the whole play list tonight... Edit Yup I ended up rewatching the while Woodgrain saga

Great video, sir!

I remember being so excited to get my Cyrix 486/100! Never thought computers would get any faster than that ...until about 6 months and $500 later!

Just as I ran out of things to watch!

@AdamChristensen

2 жыл бұрын

Same. But, is there ever really a shortage of content on KZread? 😅

@mazarinee

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamChristensen yes.

I still remember when a 486 was the best CPU available. I feel so old.

@nednettapp

2 жыл бұрын

Same, but feel blessed that I lived to witness some of the most exciting advances in computer technology. The pace of change seems to have slowed in recent years.

@SolidSonicTH

2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I didn't understand what MMX was other than it sounded cutting-edge. I didn't even know it was meant to help gaming.

Sweet. i have a DX2-66 and a DX4-100 non-Overdrive that my 486s' motherboard can switch between. Haven't given it a whorl yet though as I'm still working on building the darn thing and getting it to work. One of these years. Cheers man.

This brings some memories , got my first PC at age of 9 in 1999 it had a celeron 500Mhz with 64mb of ddr sdram and 4gb HDD

I think your Pentium OverDrive had a buggy Protected Mode implementation, and thus crashed UNIX-y software?

GREEEETINGS KING BLEEERB! Making my shitty monday just that much less crap.

Yes, this is cool. Love this era in PCs.

so cool that you keep putting Adrian Black over. his channel is great.

I remember opening that same package and dropping this chip in my rig. I thought the heatsink looked killer at the time =)

Every time Clint breaks a seal on one of these vintage products i get a small heart attack

We had this in our Packard Bell! It was fantastic!

Love the Steve1989 reference, (again!) Coffee type II is the best part of the accessories kit.

About this "iCOMP® Index" - I guess that those benchmarks also doing some floating point tests. Pentium was slightly faster "clock per clock" than 486'es in integer operations (that's why 83Mhz Pentium Overdrive is more or less the same as 100Mhz 486), but it was WAY faster in floating point operations (famously: that's why Quake was running so much better on Pentiums). Thing is, that back in the 90s, floating point calculations were used rather sparsly, even in benchmarks - so I guess all those benchmarks that gave comparable performance were mostly integer based. I bet Pentium would be much faster in some floating point benchmarks. Quake would probably show a difference - but it didn't work sadly... Also: Pentium Overdrive would be slower than "real" Pentiums with PCI bus, newer motherboards - so that has to be counted as well.

@emmanueloverrated

2 жыл бұрын

You are right. Only Quake in the games he tested used FPA. Most game of that era were doing their "floating" calculus on fixed arithmetic... which is Integer based... Doom did so, Build based games too, so a pentium didn't made the cut for those.

@vladimirrodionov5391

2 жыл бұрын

Pentium has two pipelines, optimized microcode, better cache architecture, some instructions hardwired so much faster. Pentium optimized code is at least 2x faster than 486 clock-for-clock for integer.

@MrDuncl

2 жыл бұрын

The Floating Point checks were interesting. I guess they were put in to reassure people that Intal could make a fully working FPU, unlike the ones they put in the original Pentiums. At the time I saw a funny spoof story along the lines of 2000.8977889 An Intel Space Odyssey. "Open the cargo bay doors HAL. :- No I will kill you like I killed the other 2.83 crew" :-)

@soylentgreenb

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmanueloverrated Build used a little bit of floating point for some setup for slopes. It really hurts you on an 486SX system (with no FPU), but isn't enough to really benefit pentium greatly over a DX system. You can search the source code for Doom though and you'll only find a single float instruction in there and it is not used when compiling for X86.

@emmanueloverrated

2 жыл бұрын

@@soylentgreenb Of course when talking about a subject like that, we infer the critical parts, not the routines that are nearly never called nor those impacting the frame rate. You're right about Doom. I messed with its source code back them, the arithmetic is very well done.

Question. If you sent in the registration now, would it be homoured? It was sealed in box, so is new. Technically.

@SamFirthDesigner

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking it would be so cool if Clint was to send a bunch of them in and make a video about the responses :)

@plan7a

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, many questions would need to be answered for this: How long is it guaranteed for, what happens if it fails? Is there a like for like replacement or does it have to be something of equal or better value. At today's prices, of course. LOL. Methinks someone would need to be a time-traveller to get the exact same product in some cases as the item being registered could be almost impossible to source? What information does one put onto the card - information when one purchased it or information relevant to today. I think the funniest answer would be what store did you get this from? Can that store get some props for selling it to you? Where do you send/take it if the store is no more? And finally, how long IS a lifetime guarantee? LOL. So long as they didn't want a receipt... LOL. (Sorry comment is a bit long).

@lauram5905

2 жыл бұрын

It depends if the box/address is still open and if USPS honors the business reply agreement they had back then (if you didn't need a stamp). Sorry to be the fun police, I work for the mail 😂

I think I caught a Steve1989mre reference as well as an AvE reference. I see you are a man of taste!

honestly i was just kinda amazed to see quake running on these specs at all! and probably at the same speed i played it at as a kid...

"PGA 169...Nice."

@Bantam80

2 жыл бұрын

"Let's get this out onto a tray."

coffee instant type 2 been watching SteveMREInfo again?

The Steve1989MREInfo reference at 4:11 is CLASSIC! Nice one LGR :)

I like it when Cliff talks about benchmarks 😃

Wish I could find my original Packard Bell that had a similar processor. My first computer was a 25mhz 486 sx which later got upgraded to 100mhz dx4. We probably got a cheaper off-brand version though.

@sierraboney1394

2 жыл бұрын

I had a self built 486 DX2-50 back in the 90's (first PC that I built myself), it ran a Cyrix clone "It's ST" cpu. I eventually put it in to a computer place I used to get it upgraded to a DX4-120 but they were broken into on the weekend my PC was there and a bunch were stolen including mine! I got the option of the DX4-120 (I assume it was the AMD cpu) or a Pentium 75 on their insurance so I went with the Pentium 75, I sometimes wonder what sort of speed the DX4-120 would've been though in comparison.

@Miasmark

2 жыл бұрын

@@sierraboney1394 my second computer was a Packard Bell Pentium 75mhz and it felt a bit faster. I did not have a benchmark at the time but just in use it certainly felt faster than the 100mhz. Probably on par with a 120mhz 486 provided the rest of the computer matches the socket 7 variety for the Pentium. That is to say it may come down to the motherboard.

132 points in SysInfo sounds quite slow. As far as I remember I'm getting 144 points on dx2-66 without any tweaking. Strange.

@logansorenssen

2 жыл бұрын

PCI motherboard?

I had a 486dx PC back in the day. A year or two later I upgraded the CPU to a 586 133 mhz. I remember the game Descent running so much faster. It went from like 4 FPS to very playable. Great upgrade.- Would do again.

These chips kicked butt. I had a Dell 486 with a DX2 50 when I was 8/9 years old (this was the early 00's when you could literally get one of these for free from the local dump and my brother had the bug for fixing PCs... I got the bug from him, and the hand-me-down PCs and components) and installed one of these into it - it made Windows 95 SO much faster!

I remember staring at a wall in duke 3d and minimising the screen to see how high fps i could get. 300 fps yeah!

@plan7a

2 жыл бұрын

I can imagine reading the comments now: 'Who else is playing Duke 3D on a postage stamp sized screen in 2021!' LOL.

Ah, the days when you didn't need a cooler for your processor that was 100 times the size of the processor. Lol

I haven't even watched this video and I'm giddy! I remember making a similar upgrade with a Cyrix chip, opening up the world of classic gaming emulators!

This channel is just as good as the main one :)

Better stock cooler than the current lot of Intel chips come with 😋

That's how I played Quake with my DX4100 in the mid-90s - it was slow, but I loved it. And playing GP2 was like watching a slide show. Eventually upgraded to a Pentium 150 and a year or so afterwards a Diamond Stealth Voodoo II - awesome times

That BIOS setup UI seems simple and nice to use.