Amd 5x86? What would be one of the Pentium equivalent Amd K5's?
It's been such a long time since i messed around with this era of computers, that age and beer have made things a little foggy 🤣 Plus up till about 97'-98' I was still using my heavily expanded Amiga 1200, so when I finally DID migrate over to PC's. Pentium chips were already well established and 486 systems were on the way out.
Some of my fondest memories using a 486 are when I was studying for my first IT qualification, we had labs filled with Escom 486's running Novell Networks. A lot of Doom and Duke 3D was played 🤣
Regarding the Trident, I've checked the chips installed "hy51c4256s-10", should I just buy six of these and populate all the sockets? Is fleabay the best place to buy these?
p.s A massive thank you to everyone who responded to this, this was EXACTLY the sort of discussion I was hoping to have. Cards like the Orchid I'm more than familiar with, having owned one back in the day. But the earlier stuff, I wasn't so familiar with. I'm really glad I bought all the cards he was selling, I paid £20 in total for everything here. I suspected the Trident would be a solid card to have, likewise the S3 Trio64, I'm fairly certain I had one of these, except mine was a little longer if I recalled and had another board sandwiched on top, which was either ram or mpeg2 decoder. I had that paired with an Orchid if I recalled.
My plan is to make a couple of systems
-1x 486 modest gaming setup, fast enough to run games from around 1991-97, I bought myself an Escom 486, identical to the one I used a college, so I can relive some Duke3D Hellz Yeah! 😀
-1x Pentium II system (I have a mobo, P2-233) I just need a few cards and a case. I seem to recalled owning a Pentium 2 system around 2001, I also think it was short lived, as we moved on to Pentium 3's.
It's not until I'm sat here typing, that I begin to appreciate the rapid rate computers progressed in the 90s and how often my father would upgrade both our computers, he would have HIS system and I'd have mine in my room. As a rule, they would be upgraded with almost the same HW, though my father was massively in to SCSI and I was in to gaming and writing. I'll shut up now, as I'm gibbering on 🤣
There's an old android saying which I believe is peculiarly appropriate here. In binary language it goes something like this: 001100111011000111100, which roughly translated means: "Don't stand around jabbering when you're in mortal danger!"