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First post, by Amigaz

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Looks like PC Chips might have been forced to put real cache on later versions of this board
If you look at the pic you'll see that they are socketed so it might be real cache?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-AMD-486-DX4-100MH … 1QQcmdZViewItem

Here's the story behind this board

http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html

Had one of these boards in my posession for about 5 minytes then it went into the bin
Bought a pile of the motherboards and this was in the lot.
I can confirm the cache chips are fake since I broke one just to check...it's just pure plastic righnt thru.
The boards is also paper thin

The board I had:

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Reply 2 of 8, by Anonymous Coward

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I'm pretty sure that PCchips did make some boards that had real cache on them, but I wouldn't bet that just because the chip is socketted that it's real. There were also fake socketted SRAM chips out there. If the traces just go around in circles like on your PCI 486 boards it wouldn't even matter if the chips were real or not.

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Reply 6 of 8, by Amigaz

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Moogle! wrote:

Someone sold on on Ebay a few weeks back that actually had the cache module.

If that was approx 5 weeks back and a US seller I was the errr..."lucky buyer" 😵

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Reply 8 of 8, by Amigaz

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Moogle! wrote:

I asked a question about it, and I believe it was shown. Can you post the link for the auction?

The auction is too old now so it's removed from Ebay's history 🙁

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