Reply 10180 of 54413, by Skyscraper
Some time ago I won a boxed Digital Venturis 466 system but I have not had the time to open the box until now.
The DEC Venturis 466 is supposedly a 486 DX2-66, AMD or Intel, WB or WT with 128KB L2 cache on the motherboard or (most often) not.
Depending on the case size and riser version the system either supports 3 ISA slots on the riser and a low profile ISA slot directly on the motherboard or 6 ISA slots (5 on a riser and one directly on the board).
The onboard video chip should be a S3 Trio32 with 1MB memory soldered on the motherboard, sometimes with two sockets for upgrading to 2MB.
There are two versions of the motherboard but Im not sure if revison 2 ever was used in the Venturis 466, the only notable difference is that the 2.0 supports 256KB cache and has a 3.3V VRM.
In any case I opened up the box with the system today, when I opened up the case I diddnt find a DX2-66, I found a POD 83! 😀
Inside the Digital Venturis 466, A POD 83MHz and a Sound Blaster 16 SCSI CT1770 sitting on a "version 1.0" motherboard.
Under the SB16 we find a S3 Trio64 chip with 1MB memory and upgrade sockets and also sockets that can hold 128KB cache.
The system was sold as a "1991 386 system", almost correct labelling for a boxed Digital Venturis Socket-3 system with a POD 83 inside 😀
The price was ~33 euro on the Swedish Ebay clone Tradera.
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