Vlad's rides thread

[vlad01]

Awesome!

my all time rarest CPU I ever had was an Intel DX4 overdrive 486 which run stock at 100Mhz. Only ever had and seen the one, even on ebay the closest I have found is DX4 overdrive at 75Mhz.

I had a few cyrix 586 and AMD 586 CPUs which back then were not common at all. I think there might of been and IBM variant of the same 486-586 architecture back in those days but can't recall for sure.

[vlad01]

Check this site!

Any CPU you ever need to look up.

http://www.cpu-collection.de/?tn=0

[ejukated]

haha wow that brings back memories... I had a few DX4-100 CPUs, one was an IBM, there were a few AMD ones as well floating around.

I also recall there was a 486 DX cpu could be used as an upgrade in a 386 board some sort of hybrid. Oh the sound of the FDD test on boot up followed by waiting for the ram test to finish

[vlad01]

haha yeah, took forever to do a ram check on a 486 with 96MB !! of RAM lol.

[psyolent]

the DX4-100 was awesome. remember VLB - vesa local bus?
i had one and downgraded to one of the hot Pentium 60 (or 66 can't remember) - worse thing i ever did - the DX4 was faster and ran better
remember the simmverters where you used to be able to stack 1MB SIMMs to make a 4MB 'module' - good times.

[ejukated]

hhaha lets not start on FreeEMS or the pains of getting a Creative 6x CDROM to play nicely off the IDE controller on the back of a SoundBlaster 16 sound card....

[vlad01]

ahh the good old sound blaster. Remember the days of ultra realistic EAX effects? and when they actually worked pre win xp and we hadn't had working EAX since lol.

Creative went to shit after the release of xp and were overtaken by the peasant class AC97 by realtek in the compatibility, quality and driver support

[immortality]

Did anybody have one of the early Pentium chips that had the fault which caused calculation errors?

[vlad01]

My history went from various 486 s 586s to a celeron 766Mhz to Athlon 2800XP, then Athlon 64 3000, Phenom 9850BE (pos) for about 3 weeks phenom II 945BE and now FX 8350 clocked at 4.11Ghz on stock voltages.

So nope, never touched any of the pentiums for personal PCs

[ejukated]

ahh the good old sound blaster. Remember the days of ultra realistic EAX effects? and when they actually worked pre win xp and we hadn't had working EAX since lol.

Creative went to shit after the release of xp and were overtaken by the peasant class AC97 by realtek in the compatibility, quality and driver support

I gotta say whilst the Realtek AC97 onboard had surround sound etc, it had a horrendous buzzing and the quality wasn't as good as my Creative Live 128 that I installed in a PCI slot. After that era tho I pretty much changed to laptops so it was just whatever came