14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
12:03 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Riley" <fraveydank at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Who were the worst of the worst?
Not exactly clones, and not exactly "early"
for some stricter
definitions of the term, but there were a number of woefully
bad motherboards, especially back in the 384/486 era. The
worst I can recall were the PC Chips boards which were both
under-engineered and occasionally contained fake cache chips
and a BIOS that lied about their presence:
http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html
- 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).