After years of using DOS with everything from Pentium 166 and up, I got my first 486, and it has the FIC 486-VIP-IO motherboard. Is there anything I should pay attention to with this board in 2026? I'm more concerned with stability and compatibility than speed. For speed, I even have Athlon XP systems with ISA... 😁

stay away via chipsets on 486 cpu. poor ram bandwith performance, fpm ram only usaeable with cia chipsets
only advantage is ps2 mouse header

Apollonios wrote on 2026-01-11, 00:47:

After years of using DOS with everything from Pentium 166 and up, I got my first 486, and it has the FIC 486-VIP-IO motherboard. Is there anything I should pay attention to with this board in 2026? I'm more concerned with stability and compatibility than speed. For speed, I even have Athlon XP systems with ISA... 😁

jumper the turbo switch header or toggle the button if its in a case.
bad performance could be missing L2 cache, does the amount show up on boot? There are some cache tools like cachechk that can confirm its working.
are you using a vlb video card?
what are you using to judge performance?