BLockOUT wrote:but thats slow. the real 486 has dx2-66
thats the seal of a 486
For you it might. For me it is not. For my needs, a dx2 at 66 does not cut it for what I have of nostalgic attachments. If we are talking dx2's, then a 80 will cut it. A 66 will not, and I would just as well use it for the same tyep of software, that I am going to use this dx33 for. Then there is this nostalgic attachment that I have for any 486 class system. You see... I was a teenager when the 486 system was the defacto standard. And I have had my fingers in 286's, 386's, 486's and so on, from when each platform was the standard. I have seen new stuff, when stuff was new, from way back when the C64 was launched. Seen it all, tried it all, up untill around 2006. Well... The most populair and most used stuff, that is. 😀 To answer your "thats slow, real 486 has dx2-66", I can say that for me, a real 486, has a 486 CPU and an SX is just as real as a 5x86, when I have to define what a 486 is. No matter if the clockspeed is 25mhz or 133mhz. A 486 is a 486. 😉 Shure an SLC or a DLC is an hybrid CPU, yet that is a totally different ball-room or argument if you like. 😀
Basically speaking.... I will build this dx33, for games between 1987/88'ish to around 1991. And I will build it because I allready have these following systems:
Dx2-80, 16mb Ram, VLB Gfx and VLB Controller.
Dx4-120, 32mb Ram, PCI Gfx and onboard controller.
5x86-133, 32mb Ram, PCI Gfx and onboard Controller.
They are all running stock frequency and stock FSB, and as I do not have any pure ISA system from the early 90's, then this will be the one that I am going to build. And it is basically to have computers from early 486 all the way to late 486. Plus I don't have that 386 that I used to have in my collection. It filled the gap between my dx2-80 and my 286 really nice, so a 486dx33 will be a nice replacement for that 386 system. Last but not least, then it is more or less close to my first computer, that I bought with my own money. That was a ISA-Only Cyrix 486slc2-50mhz system, with an ET4000 card, 120mb HDD, SoundGalaxy (SB-Pro compatible) and 4mb Ram.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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