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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.

Reply 1 of 3, by brian105

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Gigabyte hands down if it's better hardware-wise and BIOS-wise. Although getting stuff to work makes it have a place in your heart, at the end of the day it's just a motherboard.

Presario 5284: K6-2+ 550 ACZ @ 600 2v, 256MB PC133, GeForce4 MX 440SE 64MB, MVP3, Maxtor SATA/150 PCI card, 16GB Sandisk U100 SATA SSD
2007 Desktop: Athlon 64 X2 6000+, Asus M2v-MX SE, Foxconn 7950GT 512mb, 4GB DDR2 800, Audigy 2 ZS, WinME/XP

Reply 3 of 3, by candle_86

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Even the gigabyte has issues with 40 mhz bus, taking a quick break then going to set the fsb down to 33 and see if it can get past parelle port detection