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Can somebody identify this socket 3 motherboard?

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First post, by tankkillerCSM

Posted on 2017-02-04, 02:34

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I just got this old guy from a friend, and I have not been able to find any documentation on it whatsoever. It has two Fugu Tech FT160G70 chips on it, and an AMI BIOS, as well as 2x 16-bit ISA slots, 4x PCI slots (one is shared with an ISA slot), and 2x VLB slots. Some of the jumpers on the board are labeled, however there are quite a few that are not.

If someone could help me identify this board that would be great 😀

When in doubt, throw a couple Xeons at it.

Reply 1 of 7, by gerwin

Posted on 2017-02-04, 03:05

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You have real winner there! it is a FuGu Tech, short for F'ing Gud Technology. Which is a two part chipset: Chip 1 and Chip...1.

(Just ignore me, I don't know what I am talking about)

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Reply 2 of 7, by TheMobRules

Posted on 2017-02-04, 03:32

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Hmmm.... 486 board with white ISA slots, stickers on the chipset and "Secondray IDE" misspelling? Smells like PCChips or one of its rebrandings! 😁

This one, maybe?

http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/486pci/80486vip.html

It even has the SECONDRAY IDE misspelling! 😁

EDIT: looks like your board has socketed cache chips, so hopefully they are not fake.

Reply 3 of 7, by lazibayer

Posted on 2017-02-04, 03:39

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UM8881 chipset, up to 256MB ram, up to 1MB cache, the board is a keeper.

Reply 4 of 7, by Ampera

Posted on 2017-02-04, 03:46

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Amazing board. I am surprised with all that DMA and I/O, the 486 doesn't melt and coalesce into a ball of pure plutonium.

Reply 5 of 7, by Brickpad

Posted on 2017-02-04, 04:03

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I have the same board. It's a PCChips M915i a.k.a Amptron DX9200.

http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/486pci/80486vip.html

Reply 6 of 7, by tankkillerCSM

Posted on 2017-02-04, 04:40

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Thanks! I will have to test this board soon, as well as its cache once I get myself a DX4-100 (or equivalent). It seems like it could make quite a DOS rig.

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Reply 7 of 7, by Ampera

Posted on 2017-02-04, 04:42

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tankkillerCSM wrote:
Thanks! I will have to test this board soon, as well as its cache once I get myself a DX4-100 (or equivalent). It seems like it could make quite a DOS rig.

DX4-100 isn't good enough for it. That needs a well taken care of 5x86 OC'd to something amazing. See if you can get a really nice one and a great 486 cooler. With that you can have a 486 rig that runs like a Socket 5 Pentium machine.

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