Who got the biggest 486 here?

[Pingman08]

If anyone has "DECKED OUT" an old 486...post the specs here. It will be cool to see who's got the biggest old rig on the block! Also Explain any hard to do setup specs too if you want.

ex.
486 100DX or 486 w/133 evergreen overdriver
64 Meg of RAM
1.2 Gig HD
Awe 64 soundcard
2 meg Trident vidcard
2X Cd-Rom
etc..

[vass0922]

now where's Mick lol
Mickwish should be around here.. imagine he's just waking up lol

[ocit]

man 64 mgs on a 486 , its madness. lol i remember my 486 dx4 100mhz having 16mgs of ram also had a trident isa vid card with 1 mg ram. i think i was able to play sim city 2000 barely.

[cowboybooter]

I am currently workin on an old Compaq Inbuilt Monitor jobbie, just for fun.

It currently has;

DX266 CPU
20mb Onboard

6.4Gb HDD ( yes it's not the orig, but...)

Integrated vid / sound

Watch this space, will reply with final specs.

CBB

[Epyon9283]

486 dx2 50mhz
16mb ram
2 200mb hard drives
1x cd-rom
sound blaster 16
2mb s3 video card. Think it was a virge or something.
Cant compete with yours though...

[brandon184]

I still can't believe that my first ("major") machine was;

Pentium 133Mhz (66mhz FSB)
8mb EDO RAM
1.0GB Hard Drive
4MB Video
4x CD-Rom

for $4800, not including monitor.



- Brandon

[Brainchild]

I have a 486DX100
32 mb ram
1.2 maxtor
1.4 WD Ithink
56k ISA WIN Modem
1 mb Oak Video card
Full AT Tower
350 watt PSU
CD
Tape Drive
5.50 floppy
3.25 floppy
Temp Probe on the front tells CPU temp, and also setup with 15 port network hub.
Top drawer dinosaur. Good stuff in it's day though lol......

I have several old 486s lying about, that one I haven't scrapped yet. Also have a 386, with 2 5.50 floppies, and a 117mb HDD the size of Rhode Island Weighs about ten pounds no joke. I keep it around for nostalgia, that and I can't throw anything awayor which ever.

[originel]

486 dx2 100 w/ 64mb EDO ram. ISA crystal sound card, riva TNT vid card PCI, etherlink III lan card, ISA (yes i actually have a 486 board w/ pci slots. it also has 32-bit ISA slots, which look like an ISA slot with a PCI slot on the end of it!!) 6 gb Seagate Medalist Pro hd, 24x cdrom, floppy.

[Daft_Ghosty]

I have 2 486 dx2 66 chips waiting to be rebuit for old dos gaems.. =)

[GroundZero3]

i had a 486 that came with 64 megs of ram and a 500 meg hard drive

but i had to get rid of it, cause i kepted hitting my foot on it!

[joker00]

I still have my old 386 33, 400 meg hard drive, isa sound, VLB trident 4 meg video card, 16 megs of ram(i dont remember the pins anymore)

[RamonGTP]

486 DX/33 with evergreen 133mhz upgrade
16MB RAM
2MB Diamond video card
170 and 250MB hard drives
8X cd rom
SoundBlaster (original) sound card

-Ramon

[blubomber]

I have an AMD 486 DX2-80 chip at work. Plus, we have an old IBM desktop with a 486 - 66 chip in it. I am not sure how much ram and HD space it has, but it is currently running DOS 3.3 and has been doing so since i started working here 2 1/2 years ago. It is used as an Interface between different systems in our Hotel to our main IBM 436.

Pretty amazing that it is still up there moving right along. It is not a power house but then i guess you dont need to much to run DOS 3.3.

[Pingman08]

Boy...some of these are pretty cool setups....Ahhh the good old days!!! Yeah...I think I paid around $2600 for my first 486... It was a whopping 486 66DX with a 420 meg HD, 4 meg of RAM, and a 1 meg built in vidcard... lol

[infos]

I've got a friend with a 486
would it be better for her to get opera or W98 browser?
Would W98 even be possible with only a 1gb HD?
She currently has W95 but only has a 1 gb HD
64mb RAM

Thanks

[soulware]

why not get mosaic? :P

[Pingman08]

err....I'm pretty sure a complete WIN98 intall takes up only about 333 meg so....errr yes!

[originel]

i think it runs about the same as 95 after you turn of active desktop and such.

[Brainchild]

IMO 95 runs faster most of the time on a 486. Recommended minimum processor is 90MHZ Pentium. I just installed 98se for giggles, and it was Slooooooooooowwwwwww!

[Pingman08]

Yeah...you might want to throw as much RAM as you can on it if your running 98SE on a 486.