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suggestion: Ultimate 486 mainboard Bench Comparison

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First post, by noshutdown

Posted on 2012-05-29, 05:07

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the purpose is to find how much impact the mainboards have on performance.
the bench should cover most chipsets: intel, umc, ali, via, sis, opti, winbond, and probably others, and see how their performance vary when using same cpu, ram and video configurations.
i suggest to use intel dx4-100wb on all boards, which shall be enough to see some difference between boards, while not having compatibility issues that amd5x86 and cyrix5x86 do.

Reply 1 of 3, by ratfink

Posted on 2012-05-29, 18:40

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Isn't a lot of that already in some of the benchmarking threads? You could pull out what there is there to help get things started?

Reply 2 of 3, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2012-05-29, 19:51

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Doing a review / roundup might be better for this. With mainboards a lot of differences are settings in the BIOS and with most 486 machines there are a TON of Bios settings.

I'd be surprised if you find significant performance differences between boards unless some boards have missing features or things like that.

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Reply 3 of 3, by noshutdown

Posted on 2012-05-30, 00:58

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:
Doing a review / roundup might be better for this. With mainboards a lot of differences are settings in the BIOS and with most 486 machines there are a TON of Bios settings.

I'd be surprised if you find significant performance differences between boards unless some boards have missing features or things like that.

i guess its mostly chipset difference. as we know there were huge difference between via691/693 and bx in the pentium2 days, sometimes up to 20% slower, mvp4 is a lot slower than mvp3 and ali5 aswell. i wonder if this applies to 486 boards too.

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