First post, by cyclone3d
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Here is the original thread which has since been closed:
Fake 486 Processor?
I won the auction on the one I bid on... thanks to all for not bidding.
I received it a couple days ago and just tested it in my PC-Chips M912 v1.4 motherboard and it works just fine. This is the motherboard that is in use in one of my builds. First and only board I have tried it on.
I had an Intel Overdrive DX4-75 running at 100Mhz before this.
All I did was change the voltage settings from 5v to 3.3v before testing for boot.... well, besides also putting a heatsink/fan on the new CPU.
It booted up but locked at the Windows 98SE boot screen.
I then rebooted and hit F8 to bring up the boot menu and booted to a DOS command prompt.
After looking at the jumper chart again, I saw that there were jumpers that needed to be set for the SL Enhanced CPUs so I set those.
After that it booted up into Windows 98SE fine.
So, I can confirm that these CPUs are not fake. Guessing the OP of the original thread just doesn't have a motherboard that is compatible with them.
Pics of the CPU that was sent to me:
Yes, that is a 3D-printed enclosure around the foam. Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to to protect a "fake" less than $9 CPU.