Using our 486DX4-100 like it's 1996 (part 2/3)

Welcome to Part 2 of my AMD DX4 100 series ... In this part we will be adding some expansion cards to the PC, play some games, look at some old software, go over the BIOS do some benchmarking and have a sneak preview of what the final part will be.

System Specs :
AMD 486 DX4 100MHz CPU (8kb L1 cache)
ChainTech 486SPM motherboard (256kb L2 cache)
16 MB RAM
Seagate 545.5MB ST3660A hard drive
Creative Soundblaster Vibra16 CT2260 ISA sound card
S3 Virge DX 86c375 PCI video card
3COM Etherlink III 3c509 ISA networking card
Philips CM260 single speed cdrom drive
Misumi 5.25inch 1.2mb floppy drive
Sony 3.5 inch 1.44mb floppy drive

Benchmark Results :

SpeedSys 4.78 = 37.55
TopBench 3.8 = 192
3dbench 1.0c = 57.9 fps
PC Player Benchmark = 15.8 fps
Doom Max Detail = 34 fps
Quake timedem = 11 fps

Vogons system specs : https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?...

I do want to give a shout out to the following 2 channels, who have a nice collection of retro videos, including

486DX4-100 MHz Benchmark Battle [ Intel, Cyrix, AMD, TI, ST] :    • 486DX4-100 MHz Benchmark Battle [ Intel, C...  

Comparing 31 Retro Video Cards for the 486 Part #2 : Is PCI or VLB better :    • Comparing 31 Retro Video Cards for the 486...  

Check out their channels

CPU Galaxy :    / @cpugalaxy  
PCRetroTech :    / @pcretrotech  

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