First post, by rgart
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- 486 PCI Benchmarks -
I recently got a deal on a bulk lot of 486 PCI/VLB motherboards. I would like to benchmark them, test stability and post the results here so I am after some suggestions on which CPU/GPU/RAM/CACHE/HDD combinations I should use for the testing process and which benchmarks you would like to see done. I have read that 486 motherboards with both PCI and VLB slots have had them poorly implemented and there is reduced bandwidth for the PCI slot but I have never actually tested it. I'm currently building a workbench so I am a couple of weeks away from having these boards up and running and fully tested.
Ultimately at the end of the testing I will pick one board and build a complete system that will remain as is.
Proposed Benchmarks: Quake, Doom, Duke Nukem, Pcpbench, 3dbench2, Speedsys
Now I am considering using the following hardware for the first run of tests across all boards, opinions?
CPU: Intel Overdrive DX40DPR100
GPU: Matrox Millenium II MGA-2164wP-C
RAM: 16MB Hyundai HYM536410 FPM
CACHE: 256K
Here are the motherboards:
1) Elite Group UM8810PAIO Revision 2.1 (UMC Chipset)
2) FIC 486-VIP-IO (VIA Chipset)
3) Intel Classic/PCI Expandable Desktop - Ninja (Intel EX Chipset)
4) Gigabyte GA486IM Revision 2 (UMC Chipset)
5) Biostar MB8433UUD-A Version 2 (UMC Chipset)
Thanks!