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Post by 3vix6 on Jan 8, 2011 1:35:50 GMT -5
"Some video cards are authentic shit (mostly obscure brands with broken VESA BIOS). And there are the ocassional PCs that are pure evil doom, no matter the actual speed."
Reminds me of my first PC Clone.. A Packard Bell 486SX25 with a Cirrus Logic video chipset. Who hears of Cirrus Logic anymore? lol
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jan 8, 2011 2:55:27 GMT -5
Cirrus Logic.... - They had those crappy VGA "framebuggers" that were plain evil and awfully slow - They also made the main MCU used in the infamous Fujitsu MPF/MPG harddrive series... that were bound to rot as soon as they left the factory... and also forcing Fujitsu to exit the desktop HD business - They also made a couple of Winmodem chipsets They STILL do exist, making mostly noname audio ICs and some embedded automation shit. Check it out! www.cirrus.com/
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Post by GiGaBiTe on Jan 24, 2011 20:47:54 GMT -5
I recently got another 486 machine (AST Advantage! 486/33) and it has a Cirrus Logic chipset in it. I maxed out the RAM (32 MB lol) and put a 486 DX/2 66 in it and playing duke on it was pretty meh. I found one of those Intel Overdrive chips and put it in there and it ran much better.
I wonder if I can get Windows XP to run on it since the Overdrive has the two instructions it needs (cmpxchg and cpuid.)
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