zuldan wrote on 2024-04-26, 05:27:
Trashbytes wrote on 2024-04-26, 03:55:Decided to add another 486 board that fills a gap, I have both ISA and PCI 486 boards but dont have a board that has VLB, so I p […]
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Decided to add another 486 board that fills a gap, I have both ISA and PCI 486 boards but dont have a board that has VLB, so I picked up a dataexpert-exp8046 that has all three slot types along with supporting 3.3 and 5 volt CPUs. Its been modded with the Dallas RTC battery mod which is good.
I think I may end up using this one as my daily 486 board, seems it'll handle pretty much any socket 3 CPU I have here along with being able to take a wider range of cards so it will make for a good PC to test cards in.
Comes with a nice AMD DX4-100 and 8Mb of ram too. Has anyone here got any experience with this board, if so how does it fair against the competition for tinkering with bus speeds and such?
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Very nice! Have you got a VLB ET4000 and a VLB multi IO cards to put in?
board has on board IO, no VLB VGA yet, but I have a few PCI cards that will work good, got an ARK 2000 and 1000 and a ET4000AX, wont worry about VLB yet till I can get a good deal on a GD5434 based VLB card with 2MB ram. May also hunt down one of them super fast VLB super IO cards with on board cache, or go silly and grab a VLB SCSI raid card ...that might be fun.
Seller even sent me a few pics confirming the board supports both EDO and FPM which makes throwing more ram into it easier, I have 64Mb of 60ns EDO memory I may put in it yet, might even look at seeing if there are faster cache chips for it too.
Just having VLB with ISA and PCI opens up a lot of opportunities to play with VLB stuff that I had no chance to even touch back in the day.
Edit - That ET4000 VLB card is one expensive little number about 300 AUD for the cheapest I see, no doubt the 5434 will be too. The WD Paradise VGA VLB is not a terrible price so might look at that if no good deals show for the other two.
Missed the fact that this board doesn't actually have on-board IDE ..just floppy and serial IO ..so will be pulling out a PCI IDE card I have.
Have a feeling this little gem I have should work just fine in a 486, super amusing to throw a 286 into a 486 to acts as a raid controller.
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