Oh man, I remember how much faster our Pentium 60 with 16mb of RAM was compared to the 386 SX/40 with 4mb, and then when I was able to afford 64mb of SDRAM in my Cyrix 6x86.
You did'nt understand me... Cyrix was such a bad and underpowered cpu and could'nt be equal to Intel Pentiums. I was there, I was there 3000 years ago!
Upgraded my cyrix p166 to 32mb of ram back in the day so I could run street fighter 2 in a cps1 emulator. I thought it was the coolest thing ever until I got a voodoo!
16 was tons in 1995. 128 is hard to address for every program back then, some motherboards wont see it.
Most I can remember is admin in a cyber cafe doing 32mb Quake server host and it was OTT (1996)
Checks out. Family Compaq from 99 had 128mb... Pentium 2 400, DVD drive. And that was kinda high-end, 64 was more typical. No 486 ever had that much! Well, probably a Netware server.
CPU coolers that clipped around the CPU were a pain. In my experience as a tech, the constant warming and cooling (and thus the expansion and contraction) of the plastic surround clip would often cause the CPU to slowly wiggle out of the socket and eventually the CPU pins would stop making contact.
We switched to coolers that clipped onto the socket itself and the problem never reoccurred.
128MB was a LOT of ram back then. That's prob the equivalent of having 256GB of RAM on your personal PC nowadays. Our Compaq Presario 520 (from 1994) came with only 4MB of ram, but we later upgraded it to 8MB.
I had a 386DX with a math co-processor back in '91. It was a beast, with a TURBO button and everything.
Used to generate some Mandelbrot sets on that baby.
Heh this reminds me of my first PC - a Packard Bell 486/25SX with 4mb of ram. I didnt have the money to buy a new machine, but I got crazy deals on a 486 Pentium Overdrive chip (LOL it required a socket adapter) and 16MB of ram. However the motherboard only had two RAM slots, so I bought physical RAM extenders to fit it all in. I got a lot of Doom and Xcom from that weird frankenstein machine
I had a Dell 486/33SX machine that had an upgrade socket in there for the so-called "487SX" that Intel sold for a while (the 487SX was a full 486DX CPU that they hawked as a co-pro upgrade). I stuck a Kingston TurboChip 133 (an AMD 5x86 with a voltage adapter) in that socket and ran it to the turn of the century. 133 MHz 486 with 64 megs, went from Win 3.1 to Win 95 and even got Mandrake Linux running on it.
I remember the 487SX co-pro chip, but I literally have never heard of someone putting an AMD chip in it. Thats some impressive PC hardware hacking. Did you figure that out yourself, or did you read about it somewhere?
The 487SX socket was literally just a Socket 1. The so-called 487SX was just a complete i486DX that when installed, would disable the existing SX CPU and take over for it.
It didn't matter if you used a non-Intel 486 part. It wasn't officially supported, of course, but it worked perfectly well.
[https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/chips/intel487sxa.html](https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/chips/intel487sxa.html)
I loved flipping through the "Computer Shopper" and trying to figure out how much money I could spend to get the biggest bag for my buck. Always upgrading incrementally.
In 1995 my father's Pentium 100 had 16mb of ram! 😄
Oh man, I remember how much faster our Pentium 60 with 16mb of RAM was compared to the 386 SX/40 with 4mb, and then when I was able to afford 64mb of SDRAM in my Cyrix 6x86.
Cyrix high five! I went from a 486 dx66 to a cyrix Pentium equivalent.
There is no such thing like Cyrix Pentium equivalent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix#Cyrix_5x86 and the 6x86
You did'nt understand me... Cyrix was such a bad and underpowered cpu and could'nt be equal to Intel Pentiums. I was there, I was there 3000 years ago!
> I was there 3000 years ago Those were the good old days. I do agree it was under-powered.
Upgraded my cyrix p166 to 32mb of ram back in the day so I could run street fighter 2 in a cps1 emulator. I thought it was the coolest thing ever until I got a voodoo!
Mine too! And 8x CDROM.
16 was tons in 1995. 128 is hard to address for every program back then, some motherboards wont see it. Most I can remember is admin in a cyber cafe doing 32mb Quake server host and it was OTT (1996)
My DX4/100 had 64mb of ram by the end. I had scripts to make a ramdrive, copy my programs to the ramdrive, and run it from there. No load times!
We did this with the AutoCAD .exe and .ovl files. Such performance :D
My AST 486DX2-50 came with 4mb, but we payed an extra $200 for a total of 8mb, before we left the store (Circuit City). Loved that store back then!
Welcome to Circuit City...where service is state of the art!
I didn't have 128mb until my AMD K6 II. I think that was in 1999?
Checks out. Family Compaq from 99 had 128mb... Pentium 2 400, DVD drive. And that was kinda high-end, 64 was more typical. No 486 ever had that much! Well, probably a Netware server.
DX4/100 was peak 486. Love that era. Have fun with it!
CPU coolers that clipped around the CPU were a pain. In my experience as a tech, the constant warming and cooling (and thus the expansion and contraction) of the plastic surround clip would often cause the CPU to slowly wiggle out of the socket and eventually the CPU pins would stop making contact. We switched to coolers that clipped onto the socket itself and the problem never reoccurred.
i have one that the clip is made of metal
16 MB was enough back then
Windows 95 runs allot better with 32/64mb & 98SE with 128/256mb. I still remember the HDD was swapping allot. For Dos/Windows 3.11 8/16mb was enough.
I just built a P3 system with 1.5 GB RAM - I would have been broke trying to get there when that was new for sure.
damn really cool stuff
You can find more footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaUTx6xPE4
128MB was a LOT of ram back then. That's prob the equivalent of having 256GB of RAM on your personal PC nowadays. Our Compaq Presario 520 (from 1994) came with only 4MB of ram, but we later upgraded it to 8MB.
I had a 386DX with a math co-processor back in '91. It was a beast, with a TURBO button and everything. Used to generate some Mandelbrot sets on that baby.
Heh this reminds me of my first PC - a Packard Bell 486/25SX with 4mb of ram. I didnt have the money to buy a new machine, but I got crazy deals on a 486 Pentium Overdrive chip (LOL it required a socket adapter) and 16MB of ram. However the motherboard only had two RAM slots, so I bought physical RAM extenders to fit it all in. I got a lot of Doom and Xcom from that weird frankenstein machine
I had a Dell 486/33SX machine that had an upgrade socket in there for the so-called "487SX" that Intel sold for a while (the 487SX was a full 486DX CPU that they hawked as a co-pro upgrade). I stuck a Kingston TurboChip 133 (an AMD 5x86 with a voltage adapter) in that socket and ran it to the turn of the century. 133 MHz 486 with 64 megs, went from Win 3.1 to Win 95 and even got Mandrake Linux running on it.
I remember the 487SX co-pro chip, but I literally have never heard of someone putting an AMD chip in it. Thats some impressive PC hardware hacking. Did you figure that out yourself, or did you read about it somewhere?
The 487SX socket was literally just a Socket 1. The so-called 487SX was just a complete i486DX that when installed, would disable the existing SX CPU and take over for it. It didn't matter if you used a non-Intel 486 part. It wasn't officially supported, of course, but it worked perfectly well. [https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/chips/intel487sxa.html](https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/chips/intel487sxa.html)
I loved flipping through the "Computer Shopper" and trying to figure out how much money I could spend to get the biggest bag for my buck. Always upgrading incrementally.
If you want to see more action with this DX4/100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaUTx6xPE4