14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
12:57 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Who were the worst of the worst?
On 02/14/2013 12:03 PM, TeoZ wrote:
I think they were one of the last makers of AT form factor motherboards for
cheap upgrades of old machines. Think I have a couple AT P2 boards from
them.
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.
--Chuck