Greetings & Happy Holidays folks! It's been a rather hectic end to the year and I haven't had a whole lot of time to post lately, but here's this week's build summary for your viewing pleasure!

I thought I'd dive into some of my Socket 3-based systems for these next few "Artex's Build of the Week" iterations. A few of these have been documented in what turned out to be a massive thread, but I know everyone loves pix so here goes!

More info here:
Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Specs:

Case: AT Tower Case
Power Supply: 200W Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev. 2.1 running latest available BIOS (0402.001 BETA BIOS from 1999)
Cache Info:
16KB L1 Cache (In Write-back mode)
256KB L2 Cache
Processor: AMD-X5-133ADZ (Am5x86-P75) - 133Mhz running at 160Mhz (40mhz fsb x 4)
Cooling: Socket 3 Cooler

Network: 3Com Etherlink III 3C509B-TPO 10MBit/s ISA

Storage:
4GB CF Card (CF->IDE Adapter) on VLB Promise Controller
GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator
Generic CD-ROM

Memory:
32MB RAM (2 x 16MB FPM 60ns SIMMS)

Audio:
Creative CT1600 (Sound Blaster Pro 2.0) ISA

Video:
TSENG ET4000/W32P - Diamond Stealth 32 2MB VLB (1993)

Benchmark Results:
SpeedSys Overall Score: 60.00
DOOM: 2134 gametics in 1262 realtics
Superscape: 92.1 fps
PC Player Bench: 24.2
Quake: 969 Frames 63.9 seconds 15.2 FPS

Cache Performance:

CacheChk -d -t6
L1 (16KB) - 164.9 MB/s
L2 (256KB) - 74.5 MB/s
Main Memory Speed - 51.0 MB/s
Effective RAM Access Time (read) - 82ns
Effective RAM Access Time (write) - 50ns

CacheChk -d -w -t6
Main Memory Speed - 82.8 MB/s (12.7ns)
Effective RAM Access Time (write) - 50ns

Onto the hardware Pr0n!