First post, by 2Mourty
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I just a motherboard a ebay. Here is the link if you want to take a look:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem … :MEWN:IT&ih=006
A few questions. I am not an expert on 486 motherboards. I know a lot about socket 7 on up, but here I am in unknown territory. I tried to look up on the internet the model of this board and the only thing I could find that matched was the Shuttle HOT-433. The chipset is the UMC 8881. The board comes with 4PCI slots and 4 ISA slots. I didn't know that 486 boards came with PCI. I thought it was all isa and vlb slots. Does anybody know if the pci implementation on this board is any good? I was going to stick a Mach64 pci card in one slot. Will this board be able to handle it?
The processor is an AMD 5x86 133. This makes me smile, my Dad had a monster 486 tower back in the day with this processor and I expirimented with that old box as a Junior High School kid quite a bit. I am using this to be my low end dos gaming rig. I have a k6 3+ rig for glide games, and a Asus CUBX 440bx board with a tualatin 1.4 GHZ processor in it for more modern, windows fare. I am going to use this machine in combination with a scc-1a, AWE 64 gold, and cm-32, and the previously mentioned mach64 and have it play all of my old vga and ega dos games, and WC3 =).
Has anybody heard of this motherboard? Is it any good? Is this a good board to use for what I want it for? Thank you for any comments and thank you for reading my rambling!