14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
1:10 p.m.
On Feb 14, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 02/14/2013 12:03 PM, TeoZ wrote:
Apparently their post-486 boards were more or less fine (with the
usual accoutrements of a very-low-cost motherboard of the time).
No one says bad brands have to stay bad (good brands certainly
don't always stay good).
The Red Hill site I linked to does point out that aside from the
fake cache issue, those 486 boards worked mostly OK, perhaps
because the cache RAM was one of the major points of failure on
a PC motherboard of the time.
- Dave
Those fake cache 486 boards actually do work well
(have one here) and
will even use a real cache DIMM if you install it. The major problem
with PC Chips is they used 3rd party chipsets that were not exactly the
fastest out there (BX named chipsets people confused with the Intel
variety on P2's for example).
I've still got two Socket-7 systems made by PCChips under the Amptron brand. They
work respectably well and have no issues, so I wouldn't call them junk; just dicey on
the disclosure of what's really on the motherboard. They run Win2K pretty well, as
well various Linuces and Win9x. At one time, I think I had one loaded up with Windows XP.