First post, by tskroz110
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Hi everybody,
Recently I got a 486 system and I've been setting it up to run some games. It origially came with an Intel DX2 66 but I thought I might as well upgrade it since I'm going to be playing games like Doom and Duke3D. So I bought an Evergreen Technologies 586 upgrade chip and replaced the DX2 with it. The first oddity I saw was that the system reported it as 40 mhz in the BIOS. I checked speedsys and it reported the proper 133 mhz.
Despite that, the improvement in performance wasn't as much as I had anticipated and it was even worse with SB16 support enabled. 😢 I decided to some benchmarks in Doom and compared them to the results on this site here: https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/misc/doombench.html
I ended up getting a score of 2573, comparable to around a DX2, but nowhere near an Am5x86.
Honestly, I have no idea what to do or what could be causing it since I'm still not fully familiar with 486 systems. Does anybody know how I can fix this or at least tell me whats causing this? 😕
These are my specs:
CPU: Evergreen Technologies Am5x86 133mhz
Cache: 256k WT
RAM: 16 mb
Video: S3 86C805-Q 1 mb
Chipset: VIA VT82C481 & VIA VT82C495
OS: MS-DOS 7.10
Speedsys: 41.70