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- l33t
I've messed about with PCI-based 486s up to Pentium IVs. I had a brief go with VLB-based 486s, but didn't like 'em much. (I'm too stupid, and found them difficult to get working quickly.)
Out of the junk I've tested, I found graphics cards to be the most fault ridden. They either make the PC not POST, or windows 98 goes mad when their drivers load up. Some cards appear to be "half mad", in as much as they'll work in DOS, but not in windows.
Amazingly I think, mobos (with all of their inherent complexity, as well as sheer size) appear to be resilient to major faults.
Everything else I've tested appears to be as "tough as old boots", apart from -
old IDE CD-ROM drives - these are awful.
Voodoo 5500
old Creative non-PnP AWE32s
Terratec Maestro 32/96