Reply 60 of 62, by drosse1meyer
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Czeky wrote on 2022-08-14, 19:15:Unfortunately, I dont have that machine anymore, the board died from who knows what, and now it doesnt want to start up anymore, […]
drosse1meyer wrote on 2022-07-10, 01:27:Nice collection that you're growing there. Got any benchmarks on that Socket7/Voodoo1 build?
Unfortunately, I dont have that machine anymore, the board died from who knows what, and now it doesnt want to start up anymore, even tried an AT power supply, same thing, no power.
So I've decided to build an actual GOOD socket 7 machine. I don't have many parts yet, but I've got a motherboard recently that works perfectly, and has enough things for my needs.
It's a Zida Tomato TX98-3D, a pretty small Baby AT motherboard, and is pretty capable from what I've read and saw on Ultimate Retro.
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It came with a Cyrix MII 300GP, but I wont be using that given how weak the FPU is in Cyrix CPU's, and ordered an AMD k6-2 333mhz from ebay.The 486 PC is coming together nicely, got a pretty interesting board which has fake cache, its a little bummer, but I know someone who can replace it with legit cache chips, because it is soldered onto the board.
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I also got a controller card, but it seems like the card has an issue with reading the floppy disk, when it starts reading it, it hangs up the whole system, not even ctrl alt delete does anything, only the reset button and power switch has effect on it. And I know that the floppy drives are working fine, i've tested them before.
Thankfully at least it reads the HDD fine, so i was able to test DOOM on it, and it runs nicely, the turbo button also works really nicely! 😀
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I'm pretty glad that the 486 PC is already at a working state, albeit without a 100% working controller card, but nothing is perfect. Still, going to look out for an VLB controller card, might make a change for the better.Also i'm not really that heavy on benchmarks yet, but I'd like to change this in the future.
Also, big sorry for the late answer, I dont really look up to this site often, so apologies for that.
Cool. Thats a neat case
I'm also working on acquiring parts for a 486 - VLB build. Will post when its done. Hopefully with a few surprises that work out as planned.
P1: Packard Bell - 233 MMX, Voodoo1, 64 MB, ALS100+
P2-V2: Dell Dimension - 400 Mhz, Voodoo2, 256 MB
P!!! Custom: 1 Ghz, GeForce2 Pro/64MB, 384 MB