Is this DX4 sticker genuine? I've never seen pre-Pentium Intel stickers.

GL1zdA wrote:

Is this DX4 sticker genuine? I've never seen pre-Pentium Intel stickers.

🤣...far from. I made a bunch of these through Photoshop for fun.

very nice build again, add some Roland to level it up! 😁

Since you seem to have a stockpile, find me this Enlight mini tower. 😵 I still have those case stand bracket thingies which I suspect were also made by Enlight as the Amiga 4000 towers (Commodore and Escom used an Enlight full AT case) came with them.

Very nice. Had a DX4 myself in the 90s and it rocked for the first wave of VGA 640x480 games. Wing Commander III, Crusader, Red Alert etc.

Very nice!

bjt wrote:

Very nice. Had a DX4 myself in the 90s and it rocked for the first wave of VGA 640x480 games. Wing Commander III, Crusader, Red Alert etc.

Nice! Growing up I completely skipped the 486 generation, moving from a 386 SX 16Mhz with 2MB RAM to a Pentium 75Mhz with 16MB. I'm having a lot of fun tinkering with these systems and I'm finding that the DX4 was a very capable processor - definitely a jump from the 486 DX2-66.

I have at least 3 more builds on the horizon:

1) An Asus PVI-486SP3 Rev. 1.2 with an AMD DX4-120 WB (going into a tower case with 3-digit display)
2) An Asus PVI-486SP3 Rev. 1.2.2 with an Intel 486 DX2-66 Write-back (going into a desktop case with 2-digit display)
3) An Asus PCI-486SP3G with 83Mhz Intel Overdrive chip (going into a small tower case with no display)

Just trying to get all these parts of mine into some solid builds! These last three should have some more Roland gear too (for those watching)... 😎

Isn't it overkill with 5 486 systems and all of them being very similar?

I would go for low end 486, high end 486, early Pentium, late Pentium in that case.

Artex wrote:

bjt wrote:

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I have at least 3 more builds on the horizon:

1) An Asus PVI-486SP3 Rev. 1.2 with an AMD DX4-120 WB (going into a tower case with 3-digit display)
2) An Asus PVI-486SP3 Rev. 1.2.2 with an Intel 486 DX2-66 Write-back (going into a desktop case with 2-digit display)
3) An Asus PCI-486SP3G with 83Mhz Intel Overdrive chip (going into a small tower case with no display)

Why not a build with the cyrix 5x86 120mhz ?i know it's not a pure 486 but it is the most performance processor with a 486 core.

vetz wrote:

Isn't it overkill with 5 486 systems and all of them being very similar?

I would go for low end 486, high end 486, early Pentium, late Pentium in that case.

"Overkill" is my middle name man!! Come on now..

Seriously though, I have several low end systems including two 386-based Packard Bells, and a couple of 486 SX-25 systems too. I also have P5-60 and P5-75 based systems to play with already, as well as the later Pentium w/MMX chips.

I was more interested in the faster Socket 3 processors since I really don't play any of the super-old, late 80s/early 90s games, and because that was the generation of chips I skipped over growing up.

So to recap, the Socket 3 systems I've built so far:

1) Am5x86-P75 @ 160Mhz with VLB on Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4
2) Intel 486 DX4-100 WB with VLB on Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4
3) Cyrix 5x86 120 with PCI on Biostar Biostar MB-8433UUD-A (will document here soon)

In my opinion, although each system is considered a 'fast' Socket 3-based setup, each is unique in it's own way with the processor being used at their core.

Nahkri wrote:

Why not a build with the cyrix 5x86 120mhz ?i know it's not a pure 486 but it is the most performance processor with a 486 core.

I did.. 😀 I will be adding/documenting it soon as part of another iteration of my Weekly Builds. It's a beast of a machine! More info here.

Artex wrote:

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"Overkill" is my middle name man!! Come on now..

Seriously though, I have several low end systems including two 386-based Packard Bells, and a couple of 486 SX-25 systems too. I also have P5-60 and P5-75 based systems to play with already, as well as the later Pentium w/MMX chips.

I was more interested in the faster Socket 3 processors since I really don't play any of the super-old, late 80s/early 90s games, and because that was the generation of chips I skipped over growing up.

So to recap, the Socket 3 systems I've built so far:

1) Am5x86-P75 @ 160Mhz with VLB on Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4
2) Intel 486 DX4-100 WB with VLB on Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4
3) Cyrix 5x86 120 with PCI on Biostar Biostar MB-8433UUD-A (will document here soon)

In my opinion, although each system is considered a 'fast' Socket 3-based setup, each is unique in it's own way with the processor being used at their core.

Hehe, I see were you're coming from. I also like to build interesting unique systems (ie my Socket 4 with 3DFX and Overdrive, or my Socket 3 POD100 "rocket" with 3D Blaster VLB). I have a interesting 486 and Socket 5 system in my mind that I want to build (just waiting to get the last parts which will probably be expensive).

vetz wrote:

3D Blaster VLB

MmmmMMmm. Want!

Is that overdrive processor of yours an 83Mhz overclocked to 100Mhz using 40Mhz instead of a 33Mhz bus? I can't get mine stable enough to run Quake in the PVI-486Sp3, but man, what a score in SpeedSys - right around 74.x! Unfortunately the board has no PCI divider....

EDIT: Seems I'm not alone:
Help me decide Pentium Overdrive 83@100mhz vs Pentium 90

Artex wrote:

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vetz wrote:

3D Blaster VLB

MmmmMMmm. Want!

Is that overdrive processor of yours an 83Mhz overclocked to 100Mhz using 40Mhz instead of a 33Mhz bus? I can't get mine stable enough to run Quake in the PVI-486Sp3, but man, what a score in SpeedSys - right around 74.x! Unfortunately the board has no PCI divider....

EDIT: Seems I'm not alone:
Help me decide Pentium Overdrive 83@100mhz vs Pentium 90

Yes, it's overclocked with 40mhz bus. I have two POD's and only one of them lets me overclock to 100mhz. Feipoa later told me on PM that he got it working at 100mhz as well. Its just luck or not if you can overclock it.

Yep definitely a classic, those Asus MB are really good performer 😀
Nice and fast build 😎