Is an ISA 486 SBC worth messing with? \ VOGONS

Reply 1 of 11, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-07-30, 01:57

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If the onboard graphics isn't slow it could probably be a fine DOS gaming machine. Does it have an onboard IDE controller as well? If so, then disk performance might also be OK.

Reply 2 of 11, by squareguy

Posted on 2015-07-30, 01:58

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I believe everything was onboard. I will try to get some pics.

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 3 of 11, by squareguy

Posted on 2015-07-30, 02:20

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Pretty sure it was Cirus Logic graphics chip

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 4 of 11, by squareguy

Posted on 2015-07-30, 18:16

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Here it is. It has an Intel 486 DX4 100

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Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 5 of 11, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-07-30, 20:32

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ALi chipset, integrated ATA+Floppy controller, 2 72-pin SIMM slots... If that CL chip is on a VLB or PCI bus internally (I doubt that chipset is ISA only), this can be a mighty fine 486 machine. Guess the only way to be sure, though, is testing.

EDIT: check how much cache this boad has, if any.

Reply 6 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2015-07-30, 20:45

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Why the Award BIOS sticker is on the Dallas chip?

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 7 of 11, by dirkmirk

Posted on 2015-07-31, 12:41

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Why are these things listed for $400-$500?

Reply 8 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2015-07-31, 14:18

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dirkmirk wrote:
Why are these things listed for $400-$500?

These are used mostly for industrial equipment, which mostly having very high prices. These equipment are not something you want or able to upgrade every couple of years on a whim. When a perfectly working 100.000+ USD equipment stops working (which means you can not produce the goods for your customers anymore), the owners are generally more than happy to shell out a few hundred dollars to make it work (and produce goods) again. So, there is the demand, and there is the Ferengi. 🤣

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 9 of 11, by squareguy

Posted on 2015-07-31, 14:54

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Hehe guess I'll sell it!

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 10 of 11, by tayyare

Posted on 2015-07-31, 15:00

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squareguy wrote:
Hehe guess I'll sell it!

Just as I told, here is the Ferengi! 🤣

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 11 of 11, by squareguy

Posted on 2015-07-31, 15:12

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Yeah but it is only a hundred bazillion dollars, good deal for you!

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

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