Unboxing and upgrading (er, sidegrading?) the Woodgrain 486 with an actual 486 processor again. No more Pentium. This CPU is the venerable DX4-100, new old stock!
Пікірлер: 905
@LGRBlerbs3 жыл бұрын
LGR-viewing veterans will know my Steve1989MREInfo references go back a ways 😁 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nonOYnSgh7llhs0
@nehoymenoy38453 жыл бұрын
They always catch me off guard, but I'm glad to know you're into the same obscure KZbin oddities I am.
@CandyGramForMongo_3 жыл бұрын
My channels are all colliding! Now do This Old Tony and LockPicking Lawyer!
@stridermt2k3 жыл бұрын
INDEED! I love this channel!
@tuff_lover3 жыл бұрын
No hiss, nice!
@SNLiszt3 жыл бұрын
I remember that vid... 2018... oof, that hurts
@tefras143 жыл бұрын
The one thing i do NOT miss from those days is configuring jumpers
@rondee3 жыл бұрын
I thought it was kind of nice! 😬
@mortrek3 жыл бұрын
It seemed annoying until the fancy PnP stuff failed you and you wished you still had jumpers. I don't mind explicitly configuring stuff. It was also generally better for DOS, since PnP usually required drivers or TSRs. I hated PnP until it got good enough to be totally transparent. Even then, early jumperless motherboards could be very finicky.
@Droogie1283 жыл бұрын
I had an FIC motherboard back then. It was jumper hell. I believe it was the VA-503+ socket 7.
@mortrek3 жыл бұрын
@@wazaagbreak-head6039 yeah things are going great now
@tomokokuroki25063 жыл бұрын
And cutting your fingers on stuff.
@TyKaspy3 жыл бұрын
It’s like Clint read my mind. He said accessory packet and I immediately thought of Steve… nice.
@dmacpher3 жыл бұрын
“Nice”
@mkelly0x203 жыл бұрын
"Nice hiss."
@horacegentleman32963 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@JenniferinIllinois3 жыл бұрын
Nice!!!
@fensoxx3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@TheSulross3 жыл бұрын
"So many things to test all the time" - LGR unable to keep up with the tech avalanche of 30 years ago
@LGRBlerbs3 жыл бұрын
Still catching up on the mid-90s, it’s true
@MattExzy3 жыл бұрын
The 90s really were a time if you bought a computer, it'd truly be 'outdated' in six months, or at least partially outdated. My PC now is six *years* old, and there's honestly no reason to replace it.
@maxxdahl60623 жыл бұрын
@@MattExzy The C64 lasted for 12 years.
@coffeepot31233 жыл бұрын
@@MattExzy With windows 11 you got another 4 years. I'm going over to Linux as i don't want to upgrade my lovely hardware.
@anonUK2 ай бұрын
@maxxdahl6062 It was an extremely popular computer, so it was supported until the day Commodore collapsed- but by that time, there were "electronic organizers", calculators and updated Game Boy type devices with specs similar to/ better than the C64.
@JasonPullara3 жыл бұрын
I keep imaging duke nukeem saying "overdrive" whenever this boots up.
@xPandamon3 жыл бұрын
There probably are ways to actually make this a reality I mean changing the boot sound was a possibility with other OS versions too
@expendableround61863 жыл бұрын
And I can't help think of Riviera's "Overdrive!" meter.
@plan7a3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps an S'Express - 'Theme From S'Express' ('Overdrive' reference or two when it boots instead?), and when turning off - 'Oh, that's bad!'?
@baroncalamityplus3 жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly, the Pentium overdrive was the same basic performance as a 486 dx4 100 (as seen here) but it included the additional instruction set of the Pentium. So if for some reason, software really required a Pentium cpu to work, that was your solution. A lot of people bought the Pentium over drive thinking it was better than the 486 and it was not.
@brokeandtired3 жыл бұрын
Well it was faster...but it was more for keeping an old office PC alive for a few more years..than a serious upgrade. PC's were hellishly expensive even for basic PC's back then...it was a cheapish upgrade.
@hugiee3 жыл бұрын
@@brokeandtired Had to chuckle at this comment. Price is relative, and back in the day, early 90s, the price was WAY more reasonable than during the latter half of the 80s, we're talking 8088 through 80386 class. That 80386 was hellish indeed, the "Compaq 386" was a dream out of reach.
@Walczyk3 жыл бұрын
@@brokeandtired faster how??
@MrKillswitch883 жыл бұрын
@lungshadow The FSB and the external cache was always the weak link that only really improved when the L2 cache was integrated onto the cpu. The memory controller was more often than not the main culprit where there was only about a third of the expected bandwidth vs what the ram of the period was often rated for.
@HardRockCamaro3 жыл бұрын
@@hugiee The move to a 32-bit bus meant the 386 needed a much more expensive motherboard and RAM setup too, same situation as going from 486 to Pentium (which externally moved to 64-bit which means a more expensive chipset, ram and board design).
@JasonPullara3 жыл бұрын
"Don't see any coffee instant type 2" .... nice.
@BenWillock3 жыл бұрын
Didn't get it out on to a tray, either
@Breakfast_and_Bullets3 жыл бұрын
Confirmed: Clint watches Steve!
@hayleyxyz3 жыл бұрын
@@Breakfast_and_Bullets He did a funny imitation of Steve in part of one of his videos a while ago. I think it was it was on his main channel; can't remember. I actually found Steve's channel from that lol
@Breakfast_and_Bullets3 жыл бұрын
@@hayleyxyz I must have missed that one
@merlyworm3 жыл бұрын
Doesnt everyone watch Steve1989? ....Nice hiss.
@markambrose19103 жыл бұрын
I remember getting a Pentium 63Mhz Overdrive Processor for my IBM PS/2, upgrading from a 486/66. It actually didn't work initially, we fortunately lived near a Microcenter and one of the associates informed us that we needed a new bios for the new cpu to work. $10 and 1 new eprom later and I was rocking Command And Conquer Red Alert like it was my job. How I miss the good old days.
@TheVanillatech Жыл бұрын
Rapporting?!?! Acknowledged!!!
@jonlonglastname3 жыл бұрын
Clint! teach me things from my past that we couldn't afford as geek kids!
@boedekerj13 жыл бұрын
A LOOOONG time ago, I had a 486-DX50 that I could overclock to 66MHz on an older VL-BUS mobo. I had to physically replace the oscillator to do so. So front side, processor bus AND cache ran AT 66MHz. It smoked my DX4-120 in most CAD and math operations. It's amazing how, back in the day, FSB was KING! I had CAD customers who insisted on using PentiumPro 233MHz even after the PII-400's came out. The PII's used 66MHz cache bus, whereas the PPro's used native FSB for the cache clock. They really slayed!
@dvdemon1873 жыл бұрын
I will always fondly remember the very first time I fired up Quake and watched in awe the dark goodness of the Necropolis demo in all its glory on my 166MHz Cyrix system back in 1998 after unpacking 17 pirated ARJ-compressed diskettes. Aaah, good times!
@TheVanillatech Жыл бұрын
I remember buying 22 disks from PC WORLD thinking that I had to put the RAR files on discs, when I downloaded Terminator : Skynet from an FTP site. It was later that day I found the .nfo file and felt like a complete twat... What a game though! Played surprisingly well on the AMD PR-133 I was using at the time. Actually ended up buying the game. Like any honest Pirate should! ARRRR!
@SparksNZeros3 жыл бұрын
lets get this out onto a motherboard..nice.
@1nsanejochem3 жыл бұрын
This is Blerbs1989
@scopeshadow44323 жыл бұрын
I remember that, he posts Field Ration videos monthly.
@AdamIsUrqed3 жыл бұрын
*cuts plastic* "No hiss" "This spray dried chip has nice, robust, earthy overtones with a slightly plastic aftertaste."
@netsurferx13 жыл бұрын
...Mmmkay.
@neonaffliction3 жыл бұрын
*Nice click*
@shards-of-glass-man3 жыл бұрын
It feels so weird to see a new and sealed 486 box, my brain has started to see the processors of that era as archeological artefacts for some reason
@dreammfyre3 жыл бұрын
I bought one of these as a 13-year old, over optimistic kid and then proceeded to try to install it in the wrong socket, bending the outside pins. Lucky for me the store owner was good sports about it and was able to bend them back and gave me a full refund.
@scoobyrex2473 жыл бұрын
What year was it and how much?
@squirlmy3 жыл бұрын
@@scoobyrex247 any 13 year old being able to buy these must have been pretty rich. Certainly he could afford a better KZbin name than you!!! lol
@kathrynradonich39823 жыл бұрын
Shame no coffee instant type 2. Steve would be disappointed 😔
@TastingKitty3 жыл бұрын
I died laughing when I heard that reference 🤣
@amadeusagripino68623 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@braydenh1903 жыл бұрын
No smokes either
@Sammmeow3 жыл бұрын
Let's get the processor out on a reclosable chip tray. Nice.
@kaczan33 жыл бұрын
OK, femcel.
@peterg.82453 жыл бұрын
I love that LGR’s MRE is an Intel Overdrive!
@ericmdk3 жыл бұрын
yum!
@NonsensicalSpudz3 жыл бұрын
@@patrickglaser1560 lets get this out onto a motherboard.. nice
@fractalbroccoli4693 жыл бұрын
'Coffee instant type 2' Inhales from cigarette 'I haven't heard that name in a long time'
@psychorabbitt3 жыл бұрын
Nice dry pull on that 75 year old cigarette
@flaturiah3 жыл бұрын
@@psychorabbitt *coughing profusely*
@jon-paulfilkins78203 жыл бұрын
Lets get this out on the Tray ;)
@colearmoryllc3 жыл бұрын
Nice hiss ?
@fensoxx3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@creamthelapin3 жыл бұрын
I know this is Blerbs but your skill of filming CRTs never ceases to amaze me. It's beautiful and truly appreciated.
@psychorabbitt3 жыл бұрын
4:11 that MRE reference was pretty... nice.
@amirpourghoureiyan16373 жыл бұрын
I think the fault lies with the ISA bus speed or the Chipset used, Shelby from Tech Tangents ran into a similar issue with the same 486 chip.
@livefreeprintguns3 жыл бұрын
I just turned 40 years old on July 17th, and nothing gets my attention more than seeing "new old stock" for old electronics, ESPECIALLY audio gear.
@Kawa-oneechan3 жыл бұрын
I love how that SCSISelect™ line just straight-up lifts the curtain on how they did the graphical logos.
@TheSupercrazyman113 жыл бұрын
Blessed with a 20 minute video on the second channel! How do you sound so nonchalant about changing the jumpers? "Only a few" What? SO MANY
@LGRBlerbs3 жыл бұрын
After years of screwing with the same set of them, it becomes pretty mundane :)
@TechTimeTraveller3 жыл бұрын
I bought one of these new in 95 or 96. Made a huge difference over what I had before (33?). This was the best era for the PC.. when you could just plunk in a different CPU and see a major change. PCs are plenty powerful today but they're not as fun as they used to be.
@KL1FF3 жыл бұрын
Yup. _That_ era of massive performance gains with just a CPU swap. Systems back then were more CPU-bound, too. Todays are more diversified, thus less "spectacular" when upgrading single parts (unless you know what kind of performance you're looking after). _sigh_ I miss those times.
@travis12403 жыл бұрын
CPU upgrades aren't dead... at least on AMD if you buy into a new socket architecture there's a good chance you'll be able to pop in a chip 2 generations later. I went from a Athlon 64x2 to an AthlonIIx4 on AM2+ and recently from a Ryzen 1600 to a Ryzen 3700X on AM4. But yeah it's still not quite like popping in a 486 that's literally 3x faster. sigh.
@marcusborderlands61773 жыл бұрын
You can totally have a massive jump like that today. Upgrading from a Celeron or pentium to an i5 is a massive jump. Same with an athlon to an r5
@TechTimeTraveller3 жыл бұрын
@@marcusborderlands6177 I've noticed big gains going from an ancient i7-920 to a Ryzen 5.. but it still doesn't feel quite as across the board dramatic as it did back when I was upgrading in the late 80s and early 90s.
@marcusborderlands61773 жыл бұрын
@@TechTimeTraveller in terms of general OS "feel" (i guess thats the term?) its not that big of a difference, but games and programs run WAYYYYY faster on modern cpus, although a 920 was a decent cpu to begin with. If you just want that feeling of everything being wayyyy faster, try slapping in an ssd, felt like when i went from a single core pentium to a 3 core phenom back in the day lol
@Zontar823 жыл бұрын
Man wish i could be as happy with my job as Clint
@KINGan723 жыл бұрын
After Clint mentioned that the accessory pack didn't include Instant Coffee Type 2, I was waiting for him to say "now let's get this onto a tray...NICE!"
@DurocShark3 жыл бұрын
I worked in a PC store when those CPUs were hot... We used to call the DX4-100 and DX4-120 processors "Pentium killers". Significantly cheaper, and worked just as well on CURRENT FOR THE TIME software.
@TheT0nedude3 жыл бұрын
Not for floating point software, Quake also runs MUCH smoother on a P60 than even the dx4-120 because of this.
@soylentgreenb2 жыл бұрын
@@TheT0nedude Floating point games didn't really exist at the time. If you bought a pentium for FPU performance that would only have been justified with CAD or something that actually used floating point.
@JJop1233 жыл бұрын
4:10 I knew he watches Steve 😂😂
@dannyarnold98233 жыл бұрын
if I remember correctly there were a rash of 'Fake write back cache" motherboards by dubious manufactures back in the day that were poor performers. One of the caveats was the bus speed as well. You could get better performance from a native 486 @ 33Mhz than a Pentium Overdrive @ 25Mhz. Thanks for the great video, I had forgotten much about my early years as a system builder back then, a lot of forgotten knowledge that was completely useless until now.
@sierraboney13943 жыл бұрын
Yep there was indeed, I was one of the people that ended up buying one and not knowing till later! I don't remember the make of it but I later on found out that the cache ram was fake despite it saying it had 256 kb Write -back at bootup (rigged bios I assume) as a test program or two that I used said it was 0 kb! Couple that with the 'It's ST' DX2-50 Cyrix clone I had on it and it was probably quite a bit slower than it should've been!
@NGNetwork13 жыл бұрын
I would love for you to send one of those registration cards in one day, just to see what happens!
@GTFour3 жыл бұрын
I think should photocopy and send in every single one every time and see if anything ever comes back lol
@YourLocalCatboy3 жыл бұрын
20MHz faster than a supercomputer from 20 years before. Stuff moves quick!
@Big_Tex3 жыл бұрын
You know you’re in for a treat when Clint breaks out the pocketknife.
@MatSpeedle3 жыл бұрын
Can't beat a fast 486, I remember a friend of mine having a DX4-120 when we'd all moved to pentiums. It was still hanging in there and cool even back then :D Love the little steve1984 nod there too ;)
@deadaccount61353 жыл бұрын
@Mat Speedle Heck yeah, I had one too, a cyrix chip, and as long as the games or programs didn't look at processor type, only speed, I could run stuff meant for pentium 90/100. Good time for building PC's back then for sure. 👍
@travis12403 жыл бұрын
A fast 486 still sucked at Quake though... Couldn't compete with Pentium-optimized assembly code.
@DeinonychusCowboy3 жыл бұрын
"Greetings and blerbs" is going on my christmas cards this year
@Trev0r983 жыл бұрын
Back in Dec. 1993 I had a 486 PC, had a 486SX-25 (surface mount), also had onboard 1 MB Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 Vesa Local Bus video. Around May of 1995 I upgraded the RAM from 8 MB to16 MB (70ns), and installed an AMD 5x86-133 CPU (raised the system bus speed from 25MHz to 33 MHz using the system board jumper switches), worked perfectly. Full-on beast mode. I remember I was always able to get DukeNuke 'Em 3D to run at 60 FPS at 1024x768x8 on rails, throughout the entire game. My monitor was a 15" ViewSonic multisync glass CRT - loved it. I also ran Windows 98, RedHat Linux 5.1 and Sun Solaris x86 on it, all perfectly. 500 MB Quantum Fireball IDE drive, and a Teac 52x speed CD-ROM drive. Thing was a beast, but a lighting strike zapped it back in 2001.
@tron3entertainment3 жыл бұрын
I had a 486DX2/66 I sold to a guy on eBay years ago. In my ad I state some motherboards could be jumped to change the base speed to 33MHZ, and thus make the PC even faster. The buyer had one such pc, a 486SX/16. He jumpers the MB and reports back to me how blazing fast his "old" PC has become. He was happy, I was happy to hear it, and got a nice feedback for my trouble. 😁
@TheVanillatech Жыл бұрын
I bet he thought it was christmas, the difference must have been huge!
@tron3entertainment Жыл бұрын
@@TheVanillatech - When I went from 33 MHz to 66 MHz it was a 50% increase in performance. Which doubled when I put in my DX/100. DX/133 saw no additional improvement. Turned out to be a "status" upgrade.
@novafire993 жыл бұрын
When I was working on those systems when they were new, I always found the SIS chipset boards to be a bit slower. Also, found that not all cache chip configurations and cache vendors the same. Max cache memory on some of those boards also slowed them down slightly in some configurations.
@Fastwunz3 жыл бұрын
Had this processor as a kid - was such a massive upgrade from the 386 we had
@stephanemignot1003 жыл бұрын
Clint, Adrian, Phil... Perfect video!
@temperate_kiwi52016 ай бұрын
My first computer has this processor in it, still have the system after all these years and planning to restore it to its full retro glory
@WildkatPhoto3 жыл бұрын
Has to be one of the most bizarre 90s upgrades ever. I was selling Socket 7 white box systems at the time and I would have people bring these in wanting a K5 upgrade. Like they thought they could put a K5 on top of their overdrive.
@experimental00003 жыл бұрын
LGR + Action Retro are some great nostalgia.
@KevinRay_man3 жыл бұрын
Your enthusiasm is absolutely infectious. That's what I think.
@murderdoggg3 жыл бұрын
I had a 486dx PC back in the day. A year or two later I upgraded the CPU to a 586 133 mhz. I remember the game Descent running so much faster. It went from like 4 FPS to very playable. Great upgrade.- Would do again.
@ChrisBarnes5753 жыл бұрын
Nice SteveMRE reference LOL!
@SNARC153 жыл бұрын
"No Coffee-Instant Type II." I'm just waiting for you to next say "Now let's get this out on the tray...NICE!" Shout out to @Steve1989MREInfo
@bitrage.3 жыл бұрын
crazy how those ol sounds of games starting up like give ya that blink of absolute joy you felt back in the day
@iKilledAppl33 жыл бұрын
I love the nod to Steve in this video! I was thinking the same thing when you said accessory packet and put back on a shelf as a display piece… nice!
@iKilledAppl33 жыл бұрын
Also amazing video as always Clint!
@gstcomputing653 жыл бұрын
You down with ODP? Yeah, you know me!
@wskinnyodden3 жыл бұрын
If you can set the cache to Write-Back instead of Write-Through you will improve performance considerably!
@thelegalsystem3 жыл бұрын
Unboxing old tech will always be interesting to me, its the coziest content
@parkflyerindonesia3 жыл бұрын
The higher the tower case, the bolder the owner's pride 😄 thanks for bringing up these good old memories
@ColtGColtG3 жыл бұрын
4:09 "lets get this Steve1989MREInfo reference onto a video, NICE."
@Grom-rl8bm3 жыл бұрын
I liked that Steve MRE reference 🤌
@MatigrisSH3 жыл бұрын
The Steve1989MREInfo reference at 4:11 is CLASSIC! Nice one LGR :)
@cromulence3 жыл бұрын
These chips kicked butt. I had a Dell 486 with a DX2 50 when I was 8/9 years old (this was the early 00's when you could literally get one of these for free from the local dump and my brother had the bug for fixing PCs... I got the bug from him, and the hand-me-down PCs and components) and installed one of these into it - it made Windows 95 SO much faster!
@JohnSmith-xq1pz3 жыл бұрын
Woot Woodgrain 486, er Pentium upgrade video. Time to update my play list Maybe I'll binge watch the whole play list tonight... Edit Yup I ended up rewatching the while Woodgrain saga
@Torzelan3 жыл бұрын
Played _so_ much Quake on my DX4 100MHz, tweaked & reduced window size 👌
@iantellam99703 жыл бұрын
Yeah it could run pretty playably tbh.
@musicaldude94293 жыл бұрын
Love these cpu upgrades just show stuff that I like but I don’t have to pay money to do it my self I can watch a vid and get the same satisfaction and enjoyment out of it
@1chrisandrew13 жыл бұрын
That's how I played Quake with my DX4100 in the mid-90s - it was slow, but I loved it. And playing GP2 was like watching a slide show. Eventually upgraded to a Pentium 150 and a year or so afterwards a Diamond Stealth Voodoo II - awesome times
@YarisTex3 жыл бұрын
If you want the fastest Intel 486, you should get a DX4 with the &EW print on it. It has a slightly improved core and faster cache. And it should run in Write Back.
@CoolDudeClem3 жыл бұрын
I still remember when a 486 was the best CPU available. I feel so old.
@nednettapp3 жыл бұрын
Same, but feel blessed that I lived to witness some of the most exciting advances in computer technology. The pace of change seems to have slowed in recent years.
@SolidSonicTH2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I didn't understand what MMX was other than it sounded cutting-edge. I didn't even know it was meant to help gaming.
@eupher22 жыл бұрын
We used the AM486 DX4 100 until 1997 and it was a absolute beast of a machine. I remember Quake and Duke 3D running with no problems. But then again our computer had 36MB of ram and I think a 3MB Video Card which is probably the reason why.
@ItIsNot19843 жыл бұрын
5:50 Your gibberish is impeccable. I too speak it randomly, and I have no idea why.
@Pianoj103 жыл бұрын
Just as I ran out of things to watch!
@AdamChristensen3 жыл бұрын
Same. But, is there ever really a shortage of content on KZbin? 😅
@mazarinee3 жыл бұрын
@@AdamChristensen yes.
@DrakkarCalethiel3 жыл бұрын
GREEEETINGS KING BLEEERB! Making my shitty monday just that much less crap.
@ccdani23 жыл бұрын
This brings some memories , got my first PC at age of 9 in 1999 it had a celeron 500Mhz with 64mb of ddr sdram and 4gb HDD
@Sim23223 жыл бұрын
WIndows 95, 100MHz 486, 32Mb of RAM => My childhood. Played Diablo, Starcraft, Civ 2, Mist, NHL 97, XCOM and Age of Empires for days on end on that thing! Ohhhh, the memories!
@musek50483 жыл бұрын
back when ANY fps was acceptable because it was all about getting to play the damn games at all!
@kkolakowski3 жыл бұрын
About this "iCOMP® Index" - I guess that those benchmarks also doing some floating point tests. Pentium was slightly faster "clock per clock" than 486'es in integer operations (that's why 83Mhz Pentium Overdrive is more or less the same as 100Mhz 486), but it was WAY faster in floating point operations (famously: that's why Quake was running so much better on Pentiums). Thing is, that back in the 90s, floating point calculations were used rather sparsly, even in benchmarks - so I guess all those benchmarks that gave comparable performance were mostly integer based. I bet Pentium would be much faster in some floating point benchmarks. Quake would probably show a difference - but it didn't work sadly... Also: Pentium Overdrive would be slower than "real" Pentiums with PCI bus, newer motherboards - so that has to be counted as well.
@emmanueloverrated3 жыл бұрын
You are right. Only Quake in the games he tested used FPA. Most game of that era were doing their "floating" calculus on fixed arithmetic... which is Integer based... Doom did so, Build based games too, so a pentium didn't made the cut for those.
@vladimirrodionov53913 жыл бұрын
Pentium has two pipelines, optimized microcode, better cache architecture, some instructions hardwired so much faster. Pentium optimized code is at least 2x faster than 486 clock-for-clock for integer.
@MrDuncl3 жыл бұрын
The Floating Point checks were interesting. I guess they were put in to reassure people that Intal could make a fully working FPU, unlike the ones they put in the original Pentiums. At the time I saw a funny spoof story along the lines of 2000.8977889 An Intel Space Odyssey. "Open the cargo bay doors HAL. :- No I will kill you like I killed the other 2.83 crew" :-)
@soylentgreenb2 жыл бұрын
@@emmanueloverrated Build used a little bit of floating point for some setup for slopes. It really hurts you on an 486SX system (with no FPU), but isn't enough to really benefit pentium greatly over a DX system. You can search the source code for Doom though and you'll only find a single float instruction in there and it is not used when compiling for X86.
@emmanueloverrated2 жыл бұрын
@@soylentgreenb Of course when talking about a subject like that, we infer the critical parts, not the routines that are nearly never called nor those impacting the frame rate. You're right about Doom. I messed with its source code back them, the arithmetic is very well done.
@Mehoozhi3 жыл бұрын
Every time Clint breaks a seal on one of these vintage products i get a small heart attack
@TheRealDx3 жыл бұрын
I used to run Quake on my desktop pc using that processor, so much good memories :D
@tcaldwe3 жыл бұрын
Love the Steve1989 reference, (again!) Coffee type II is the best part of the accessories kit.
@zzco3 жыл бұрын
I think your Pentium OverDrive had a buggy Protected Mode implementation, and thus crashed UNIX-y software?
@BigDrewski10003 жыл бұрын
Ah, the days when you didn't need a cooler for your processor that was 100 times the size of the processor. Lol
@MrCumstein3 жыл бұрын
It’s really surprising how many (about 7 or 8 probably) KZbinrs I watch that make SteveMRE references. LGR is probably the second most mentioned/referenced YT’er I’ve come across. It’s appropriate because both are legends on this platform.
@calebsockington86423 жыл бұрын
Biggest performance jump i ever felt was going from a late era pentium 4 to a Core2Duo e6700. Literally breathed new life into windows, everything felt insanely faster. I think back to pentium 4's and recall them as the dark ages of desktop computing.
@sjogosPT11 ай бұрын
If you forgot about Pentium 4 and just go AMD route you had amazing machines. AMD Athlon XP CPUs were very fast and afordable. Was a great time to build machines at time.
@necro_ware3 жыл бұрын
132 points in SysInfo sounds quite slow. As far as I remember I'm getting 144 points on dx2-66 without any tweaking. Strange.
@logansorenssen3 жыл бұрын
PCI motherboard?
@pigfish993 жыл бұрын
coffee instant type 2 been watching SteveMREInfo again?
@michaeldemers27163 жыл бұрын
I was very happy with my purchase of the woodgrain Acute Angle PC from Ali-Express. So happy in fact I bought two of them.
@kcopy2 жыл бұрын
I recently got a Socket 3 mainboard with an AMD 486DX 100MHz here. With standard settings I have exactly the same 132.3 points in System Information. With sharp RAM timings I get 198 points and d11.9 FPS in Quake! You should revise your RAM settings :) Apart from that, I would have expected the Intel DX4 100 to be faster, since it has more cache. Watching your videos is always fun!
@thicclink3 жыл бұрын
"PGA 169...Nice."
@Bantam803 жыл бұрын
"Let's get this out onto a tray."
@Miasmark3 жыл бұрын
Wish I could find my original Packard Bell that had a similar processor. My first computer was a 25mhz 486 sx which later got upgraded to 100mhz dx4. We probably got a cheaper off-brand version though.
@sierraboney13943 жыл бұрын
I had a self built 486 DX2-50 back in the 90's (first PC that I built myself), it ran a Cyrix clone "It's ST" cpu. I eventually put it in to a computer place I used to get it upgraded to a DX4-120 but they were broken into on the weekend my PC was there and a bunch were stolen including mine! I got the option of the DX4-120 (I assume it was the AMD cpu) or a Pentium 75 on their insurance so I went with the Pentium 75, I sometimes wonder what sort of speed the DX4-120 would've been though in comparison.
@Miasmark3 жыл бұрын
@@sierraboney1394 my second computer was a Packard Bell Pentium 75mhz and it felt a bit faster. I did not have a benchmark at the time but just in use it certainly felt faster than the 100mhz. Probably on par with a 120mhz 486 provided the rest of the computer matches the socket 7 variety for the Pentium. That is to say it may come down to the motherboard.
@toyfreaks3 жыл бұрын
I remember being so excited to get my Cyrix 486/100! Never thought computers would get any faster than that ...until about 6 months and $500 later!
@davidromeroblaya79203 жыл бұрын
This brings me back memories of my first computer.
@rinner28013 жыл бұрын
I remember opening that same package and dropping this chip in my rig. I thought the heatsink looked killer at the time =)
@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays3 жыл бұрын
Question. If you sent in the registration now, would it be homoured? It was sealed in box, so is new. Technically.
@SamFirthDesigner3 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking it would be so cool if Clint was to send a bunch of them in and make a video about the responses :)
@plan7a3 жыл бұрын
Ooh, many questions would need to be answered for this: How long is it guaranteed for, what happens if it fails? Is there a like for like replacement or does it have to be something of equal or better value. At today's prices, of course. LOL. Methinks someone would need to be a time-traveller to get the exact same product in some cases as the item being registered could be almost impossible to source? What information does one put onto the card - information when one purchased it or information relevant to today. I think the funniest answer would be what store did you get this from? Can that store get some props for selling it to you? Where do you send/take it if the store is no more? And finally, how long IS a lifetime guarantee? LOL. So long as they didn't want a receipt... LOL. (Sorry comment is a bit long).
@lauram59053 жыл бұрын
It depends if the box/address is still open and if USPS honors the business reply agreement they had back then (if you didn't need a stamp). Sorry to be the fun police, I work for the mail 😂
@atrus4453 жыл бұрын
The first machine I could call my own was a 486 DX4. I miss that machine. Given to me by my IT father when I was in Junior High.
@Flojer03 жыл бұрын
Audio people get to roll op-amps, I'm happy to watch someone roll CPU's just for fun.
@hwykng823 жыл бұрын
I remember staring at a wall in duke 3d and minimising the screen to see how high fps i could get. 300 fps yeah!
@plan7a3 жыл бұрын
I can imagine reading the comments now: 'Who else is playing Duke 3D on a postage stamp sized screen in 2021!' LOL.
@SimonVideo3 жыл бұрын
You should try to register the warranty 😂
@plan7a3 жыл бұрын
First Name: Duke. Last Name: Nukem. Current address: etc? Some months pass by after Clint has posted the warranty. Junk mail starts appearing (at Clint's address even though he used a more relevant one for DN). Dear Mr Nukem thank you for filling in and returning the warranty card for the... are you aware for a further $$ we can offer you a free upgrade to the device you registered with us today. Simply call us on... LOL.
@SurrealAdventure3 жыл бұрын
You brought back memories with that Quake time demo. I remember downloading it on MY AMD486 DX4 100 and it ran so bad (same as what your getting here) I literally drove to Fry's Electronics, and bought the parts to build a Pentium system, just so I could run it. Good times!
@Nexy93 жыл бұрын
Oh the 90’s PC marketing schemes, bless your heart
@stevejolly82313 жыл бұрын
Better stock cooler than the current lot of Intel chips come with 😋
@prozacgodretro3 жыл бұрын
TBF, you did get two digits in that quake timedemo... just... half of them were on the wrong side of the decimal.
@theAessaya3 жыл бұрын
Woo, that's the CPU i upgraded my first i486 DX-33 machine with! Thinking back, with the little knowledge I've had about computers in general back then, I'm lucky I didn't explode anything and the upgrade went super smoothly :)
@camotech1314 Жыл бұрын
I like it when Cliff talks about benchmarks 😃
@luna-hw9li3 жыл бұрын
The bottleneck is probably the VESA local bus in this machine...
@adamsmees42503 жыл бұрын
so cool that you keep putting Adrian Black over. his channel is great.
@jordanmalfara15013 жыл бұрын
Older computer hardware isn't my jam, but I do love watching people who are enthusiastic about it
@jasmijndekkers9 ай бұрын
Nice overclocking. Great content as well. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands