First post, by candle_86
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So currently my 486 Rick's a SOYO 025d2 motherboard, it works well but it doesn't support 16mb Simms so right now I'm using 4x4 as I had 2 4mb sticks give out. On the other hand I've got a gigabyte GA486VS. I've gotta sell one and I figure they'd sell for similar on eBay. The gigabyte has the advantage of actually supporting my Its ST486 DX2-80 and I can use my 2x4mb 72pin simm and my 2x16mb 72pin Simms, both are fp 70ns. It also has support for 3.3, 3.45, 4, and 5v CPUs and a zif socket. Both are barrel battery so I'd have to use my as battery box either way. The gigabyte also has a newer bios that supports up to 8.4gb available that I could burn onto a cheap blank eprom.
The soyo has going for it the 5 days I spent getting it to work and it's already installed in my case. What would y'all choose to do.