Okay, I double checked all the jumpers and bios settings on the motherboard. However I received almost the same identical benchmark score as before.
I even increased the RAM amount to 32mb. Just to make sure it was not a memory issue.
So the 486dx4-100 performed almost twice as fast as the 486dx2-66

What is really interesting is that the inexpensive Conner hard-drive benchmarked slightly faster than the IBM DSAA Hard-drive.

But the right bottom chart has improved from last picture of your DX2/66 to this picture of the same processor.

Budget 486 build costs in 1995 retail prices.

Motherboard / CPU Combo = $100
RAM - 16mb. FPM @ $50 per mb. = $800
Harddrive - IDE 254mb @ $1 per mb = $250
CDROM Drive - IDE 4x Mitsumi = $30
S3 Trio64 Video card = $30
Budget Diamond ISA Sound card = $20
Case with PSU = $35

Total = $1,265

Although the 486dx2-66 does work with WIn95 it is very slow and not worth the hassle.
I would not go any less than the 486dx4-100 CPU and 16mb of Memory with 524mb harddrive and 32x CDROM.
Otherwise it will just run to slow.

But Ideally, The 1st. Gen. Pentium is Best CPU for Win95.

But your 486 DX2 is perfect for Windows for Workgroups 3.11

Disruptor wrote on 2022-01-20, 22:18:

But your 486 DX2 is perfect for Windows for Workgroups 3.11

Actually the 486dx4-100 is Okay for Win95. It performs okay.
I just wanted to rebuild this thing computer component stores were try to sell to customers as a Win95 motherboard / CPU combo upgrade for NEW users who wanted upgrade there old 386 and 486 computers for use with Win95. It Does work but not the bests since WIn95 is a multitasking operating system.

When I was a teenager, I could never afford a whopping 16 MB of RAM for my “budget” 486. It came with 4 (!!!) and I managed to up it to 8 MB with my weekend job. It was a 486/66 btw and Windows 95 indeed was a pain.

IIRC, I ran Win95 on a DX2/66, with 16 MiB, though. But yeah, it was not a "transparent" experience .. 🤣

Yes, I remember when Win95 first came out. Microsoft was having a product release party at “Marriotts Great America” theme park in Silicon Valley. And was handing out FREE Demos of Win95. It was a complete OS but would expire after so many days. I don’t remember
Exactly how long the demo was good for. But I picked one up and tried to install it on my 486dx-33 computer with 4mb ram and 2x Sony CDROM. Well the installation took for ever and when it finally did complete it ran really slow. Later that year I was able to get a used VLB motherboard and a 486dx-50 CPU. And I purchased 4mb more from a newspaper add. I thought this would do it but it still ran slow with Win95. So I just used Win 3.11 WFW.

It was not until these PCI/ISA motherboards came out and were selling with an AMD 5x86-133 CPU that I purchased the combo deal from a
Local computer store. Now I was ready to upgrade to Win95. I purchased a NEW computer case with PSU for $35
And NEW budget PC Cards. All new drives and components at a budget price of course. It was 1996. By this time the prices for old model components had dropped and was more affordable. So I finally had a Win95 computer and I was HAPPY. Picked up a faster 33.3 baud rate modem and I was online with AT&T WorldNet dialup internet service. I was ecstatic because now I could go online and study online.
I could access our computer school website and docs.

But I was lucky in that I lived in Silicon Valley and there were allot of computer component stores and used computer component stores too.
Computer components were everywhere and everyone was buying and selling them. There were newspaper adds, Computer shopper magazine, Fry’s electronics, garage sales, yard sales, college parking lot flea markets, and lots of used computer stores everywhere.

My original 486dx-33 computer looked like this top image.
And my Win95 computer looked like this bottom image.