I am pretty sure that my Aires board is one of the buggy ones. It was relatively stable, but it just felt really slow overall. My Saturn board (I think Saturn II) may be one of the better ones. Actually, I never got around to testing it, butit looks nice though since it has on-board SCSI. I believe …

After doing some extensive reading, I have come to the conclusion there is no such thing as PCI 2.1 support on 486 system boards. There are four main late generation PCI chipsets for 486 systems: -Intel Aries & Saturn -SIS497 -ALi M1487 -UMC UM8881 I have read some documentation on all of them, and …

I'm not familiar with DTC SCSI controller. Does it use a common chipset? I know of Future Domain (seagate also), NCR and Rancho. I like Future Domains. They have really good device support. Did you say you have magneto optical drives? By any chance would you happen to have a copy of Corel SCSI? …

I think it's pretty interesting. I found a post you made in 2004 or 2005 in which you were really complaining about POD83, and how it is the worst upgrade chip ever. I really wonder what happened to make you fall in love with such a terrible device. 😎

You really brought this post back from the dead, eh? Your proposed XT looks pretty nice, but I really have to say "good luck" writing DVDs on an XT. Is it possible to get FAT32 partitions going on an 808x type machine? I haven't tried it yet. All I know is with FAT16 partition sizes are limited to …

I have to agree that in Pentium systems installing SIMMs in pairs is generally the rule of thumb, although not always true. For example, I had a K6 system based on an SIS 4471 chipset that allowed me to run the system with only one SIMM installed. Though, naturally there is a performance penalty for …

I think you must be the only person who ever liked POD83. From what I hear even when it is overclocked to 100MHz the am5x86 and cx5x86 have no problem knocking its ass around the block for integer performance. Though, POD83 supposedly has the best FPU of them all it would seem that not too many 486 …

I generally consider mixing 486s and PCI to be somewhat blasphamous, but I just stumbled across an interesting little board based on the UMC UM8881F chipset. I guess it's generic, and it's footprint is only half Baby AT. Before I waste some money on hardware, I want to confirm a few things about …