AMD X5-133 Overclocked @180MHz / RECORD FPS in Quake/ PCI Clock Checker Tool

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3 жыл бұрын

#486quakerace
In this video we are overclocking an AMD X5-133 to 180 MHz to beat existing benchmarks of the fastest real 486 setup. At the end I reached here the FPS Record in Quake and in other benchmarks as well. I will explain the setup, tricks with the bus clock as well showing a very helpful tool to measure the PCI clock.
If you can beat my scores, just make a video of it and send it to me or upload it to youtube.
CPU GALAXY 200MHz OC -- • AMD X5-133 OC to 200 M...
Links to the youtube channel of Atheatos and the PCI Clock Checker:
/ @atheatos
• Original Hardware: PCI...
migronelectronics.bigcartel.com
Link to Vogons Forum with the old Record:
www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?...
Link to Phils Computerlab:
www.philscomputerlab.com/dos-...
Used Hardware in my video:
Chips M919 Rev. 3.4b/f
Creative CT6610 Video Blaster
AMD X5-133ADW
16MB EDO Memory @50ns
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@stbagn 3 жыл бұрын

Something inside me broke when I saw your PCI bus running at 60MHz... stable.

@kylejones8392 3 жыл бұрын

Same! Interesting though. I never thought about a chip being able to take a 60MHz PCI bus just because the same chip was used in an AGP application. Looks like I need to play with my PCI Voodoo Banshee.

@remasteredretropcgames3312 3 жыл бұрын

Something approaches. Gabe is watching.

@al73r 3 жыл бұрын

I was more impressed by the heatsink

@hohiss83 3 жыл бұрын

@@al73r xD me too

@CommodoreGreg 3 жыл бұрын

@@hohiss83 Our 486 didn't even have a heatsink. This era was really the beginning of heatsinks as the transistor count and frequency were rapidly climbing.

@_..--- 3 жыл бұрын

There's something so comfy about the gui of that bios.

@krz8888888 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, haven't seen this one in a while!

@VladoT 3 жыл бұрын

There is also a mouse support if you plug one 🙂

@axizepp 3 жыл бұрын

he is faking, its UEFI with a ryzen 3 gen cpu )))

@jonchapman6821 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve got this bios (or very very close) on a slot 1 system, and I absolutely hate it! 😆

@mlodzin90 3 жыл бұрын

It's called WinBIOS, and It's pretty comfortable for me :)

@jdmcs 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought that version of the AMI BIOS was so cool back in the day. And I have to say that your sleepless nights were worth it, congrats on your successful overclock!

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mrbrad4637 3 жыл бұрын

AMI always made the best looking/most interesting BIOSes... Especially back in the 286 to 486 era

@rennegaddefoxxe 3 жыл бұрын

I remember AMI WinBIOS; I think it was on my Pentium 90.

@builder396 3 жыл бұрын

Even my current BIOS doesnt have any windows. It does have mouse support going for it though.

@whoknows8225 Жыл бұрын

to be honest, this was the time of the transition of going from msdos to windows as windows was getting more and more mainstream... i hated it. I was running dos as long as possible... i really loathed windows

@gvii 3 жыл бұрын

These are fun to watch for me mostly because back in the day when I ran this sort of hardware, I didn't dare do any overclocking for fear of burning something up. The hardware was just too expensive to risk blowing it up, at least for most of us at the time. So it is cool to see what you could do if you wanted to.

@kasimirdenhertog3516 3 жыл бұрын

I always figured it would be worth the gamble to impress my friends at school. Not long till I fried my first motherboard... ;-)

@eyejswije8860 Жыл бұрын

I remember that moment in time when you either had a pentium 75, 90, 100, 120, 133, or 166

@tl1024 3 жыл бұрын

What an awesome video! Thank you for OC'ing old hardware for this. At first, I thought "why on earth would he chose that video card?", but it becomes clear when the insane 60mhz pci bus speed was revealed as the "secret weapon".

@BrassicGamer 3 жыл бұрын

It's only taken 25 years to realise the full potential of this platform lol. This was very entertaining and I'm definitely having a go myself, as I have an ADW revision. Maybe it's magic, like yours. Big props to the guys on the Vogons forum that originated this madness, particularly feipoa.

@remasteredretropcgames3312 3 жыл бұрын

Needs sub ambient.

@intrinia2832 3 жыл бұрын

I seriously was never put on the edge of my seat for an overclocking video like this for felt ages. My eyes gone wider and wider as you went up the Mhz. Great stuff!

@thaddeuscosse9527 3 жыл бұрын

You won the silicon lottery with that chip lol. Edit that scaling from the stock to OC value is amazing.

@ryanmalin 3 жыл бұрын

Im imagining he has been doing his own binning and this is far from his first AM5-133 chip in his collection. Just a guess.

@tuff_lover 3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanmalin Definitely binned.

@davidca96 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best overclocks I had back in the day was an AMD K62-233mhz that would do 500mhz on air cooling with stock voltage. Back then that was pretty impressive, I still have the cpu itself too.

@dallesamllhals9161 2 жыл бұрын

You sure it wasn't a K6-2+?

@intrinia2832 3 жыл бұрын

OMG, I just love your channel! So much good stuff for my retro heart. :D

@Smartphonekanalen 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations! I loved doing 486 OC since it did big difference in reality. It was time saving during boot and it could be the difference in game between not playable and playable.

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

thank you. Yes, exactly that is the point why 486s are fascinating.

@Zerbey 3 жыл бұрын

I love how excited you got when you saw the Quake FPS value, I was right there with you. My own X5-133 would run at 160Mhz but it was unstable even with additional cooling. I never even attempted 180Mhz. I have a soft spot for the X5-133 platform because it's the first PC I financed and built myself (worked all Summer to afford it). Now I want to see if this can be pushed even further.

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

... you will see it how I am going to push it to the limits 😊

@AaronBockelie 3 жыл бұрын

It's been 26 years since I worked on the project, but I remember building a synthetic clock board as comp sci undergraduate research assistant at the University of Washington. We used an (I think) 33mhz 486, and dynamically scaled the clock up and down in increments that matched with vesa local bus, ide, memory, and cpu edge timing. The board also had a small amount of buffer to capture/replay any bits on relevant bus interfaces that would get lost during a clock down event. We were able to scale the frequency high enough to completely loose communication with the video card and other peripherals, so implemented device watchdogs to record failures and put together a statistical map of how many faults and different frequencies things occurred. I recalled being able to greatly overclock the actual cpu, and the real issue was line delays in the motherboard itself - the traces were unable to carry the signals at higher frequency with enough precision. This is a neat project that you performed here, and congratulations on pushing the FPS on the quake benchmark. Superscape 3d vr benchmark is always fun to see too.

@janglur 3 ай бұрын

This is why when I was running servers for MC I was obsessed with hardware optimization that looked nothing like the then big gaming overclockers. I was maximizing on RAM timings and pure latency. Invested in Optane drives to use as pure SSD due to their low latency and high I/O and higher write tolerance being much better than SSDs at the time for their price. When your limit was pure I/O, you start optimizing weird.

@Dragonfire511 3 жыл бұрын

I love watching your channel before sleeping, it relaxes me.

@supermoon4861 3 жыл бұрын

Great videos. I didn't realise Quake would run on a 486. I thought it was compiled with P5 instructions. I remember the first time I played the demo on an early Pentium. Also the first time I saw 'true' colour in Win 3.1 Good times.

@MonochromeWench 3 жыл бұрын

It will even run on a 386 with a 80387 co processor installed.

@snap_oversteer 3 жыл бұрын

180MHz 486? Damn, didn't even know the X5-133 can clock so high.

@rebeccaschade3987 3 жыл бұрын

You have to be quite lucky to manage that speed. But 160MHz should be doable with many more chips. Personally, I don't dare overclocking my retro stuff... I can't afford to risk damaging anything, but I'm certainly impressed by these numbers. Heck, that 486 is faster at Quake than my K5 100MHz, despite the K5 being a 5th gen chip.

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

😉

@bitelaserkhalif 3 жыл бұрын

That's silicon lottery for ya

@Zerbey 3 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccaschade3987 X5-133 chips are extremely common, so don't worry about damaging a rare piece of hardware.

@rebeccaschade3987 3 жыл бұрын

@@Zerbey They still cost money, and I'm more worried about damaging the motherboard (voltage regulators etc.)

@bertholtappels1081 3 жыл бұрын

Very impressive. If I were to try to beat your world record, I’d keep everything identical, but replace the 14.318MHz Chrystal with a programmable oscillator from Silicon Labs. That way you could push everything to the physical limit and the board and software would be none the wiser.

@mrfrog8502 3 жыл бұрын

Would this not show the wrong values everywhere because you'd effectively change master clock reference used for time/speed counting?

@kylejones8392 3 жыл бұрын

That might not work. The ASIC itself likely runs at that clock speed and you might not get far before overclocking that value causes a problem.

@bertholtappels1081 3 жыл бұрын

@@kylejones8392 likely, but this is all an academic exercise anyway. If you can eke out another, say, percent, that may be worth it. Or not 🤷🏻

@bertholtappels1081 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrfrog8502 that depends on the clock distribution architecture, and the benchmarking software. I’d expect it to take time stamps from the RTC, not from the master clock. System clock timers have been an issue since the 8MHz 8088s broke 4.77MHz games, so I think it’s reasonable to assume benchmarks use a master clock-independent gating system. But I don’t know, I’m just assuming.

@kylejones8392 3 жыл бұрын

@@bertholtappels1081 Very true, every percent counts when you're smashing records!

@LightTheUnicorn 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome result, seriously impressive performance! Really loving your channel!

@ernestuz 3 жыл бұрын

I used to have one of those back in the days, and I overclocked it to 166MHz, using a crappy FIC motherboard that I had for years. I had to do some work with a pin in the 486 to be able to use it, I isolated it with glue so it wasn't in contact with the socket. I could use it at that speed for most stuff, including a finite elements assignment, but there were a couple of games always crashing, so I reverted back to a more conservative 150MHz. I now think it was a matter of cooling, but who knows. Nice to see your channel is growing.

@bollux78 3 жыл бұрын

I had one of these and used it at 180mhz from 1997 to 2003. Played unreal on it with a 2MB VLB video card and 32MB of RAM. I used to call it the fastest 486 in the West.

@mixal31 3 жыл бұрын

Unreal on 5x86? How many fps?

@phreeze83 3 жыл бұрын

@@mixal31 probably like 12 or so ^^

@Radek__ 3 жыл бұрын

@@phreeze83 yeah 12 but per minute :-)

@MOS6582 3 жыл бұрын

Another excellent vid. And thanks for recommending Atheatos channel. Looks 👍

@glittlehoss 3 жыл бұрын

Your best material yet. Keep it up.

@DaniloSavioni 3 жыл бұрын

incredible !! really enjoyed your video !! congratulations for the fastest 486 on earth !!!

@dustinweatherby5518 3 жыл бұрын

This is such a cool channel I'm so glad I happened to find it!

@BadManiac 3 жыл бұрын

My 5x86-133 on an ASUS PVI-486SP3 with an ARK 1000vl VLB graphics card and 32MB regular FPM at stock speed maxes out at 14.3 FPS in Quake and 1498 ticks in Doom, or 49.85 FPS. Looking at your stock result I feel pretty darn pleased with that! :) But to see a 486 get over 20FPS is absolutely remarkable. Amazing work, and thanks for sharing.

@OzzFan1000 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Congratulations!

@w00tDr 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, and well done.

@nexxusty 2 жыл бұрын

You just taught me about CPU wafer binning. Appreciate that.

@tiporari 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job. When I was a kid I overclocked a 386SX33 to 66mhz by replacing the mobo clock crystal with a 66mhz crystal from an ISA modem. I had to add external cooling and a heatsink, but it was very fast but not super stable. Allowed me to run games that were not permitted to run on such a slow machine. Fast forward 25 or 30 years, and overclocked systems are routine.

@lydialoud 2 жыл бұрын

I must say that I love your videos and I wish you would post more often. I send you all the love I can from the United States

@spitefulwar 3 жыл бұрын

Sir, you are now... the man - the legend!

@JVAmorim 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! Continue sending us more content like this. A fan from Brazil

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Soon it is getting to the limit with the AMD X5 to 200 MHz. 😉. Thanks vor visiting my channel.

@vulturius7664 3 жыл бұрын

Well done! I really liked watching this moment in history ;-)

@spladam3845 3 жыл бұрын

This was fantastic, well done. Can't wait to see if this can be beat, not by much I guess, because that is a bad ass 486 you have put together here!

@gfunkster 3 жыл бұрын

Great work and congratulations

@ted-b 3 жыл бұрын

That was fun! Congratulations on your world record.

@PROSTO4Tabal 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for less "yeah". this video is interesting and educative, pleasure to watch. mid 90s is very interesting subject especially because of early 3D

@wutzerface77 3 жыл бұрын

aw what? I love all the "ja" please keep it

@ozmobozo 3 жыл бұрын

Ja?

@wutzerface77 3 жыл бұрын

@@ozmobozo “Ja” is Yes/yeah auf Deutsch (in German)

@igotes 3 жыл бұрын

Another "ja" fan checking in

@apostolcv6796 3 жыл бұрын

I great you with the record ! Nice job is done!

@BlahBleeBlahBlah 3 жыл бұрын

Now this is great content! 🤘

@christoffermedc 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing his page! My favourite when larger KZfaqrs recommend notable smaller KZfaqrs, subscribed!!

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

thank you. yeah, I know how hard it was for me as well when my channel was smaller. and the big ones are not reacting or answering. Even LGR ist not answering to my mails today... I am not after revenue on youtube, I do this because of passion and if i can help and promote smaller channels who are very professional as well, the whole community has a benefit out of that and we will get more interesting videos on youtube.

@christoffermedc 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPUGalaxy Thank you for replying! Yeah, I fear they simply get overloaded, hard to sift through the relevant information etc with to many people trying to get your attention. I'm hoping to start my own channel sooner or later, and that's partly because I don't feel I can discuss the subjects presented in larger KZfaqrs videos, due to being completely smothered by the other comments.

@VladoT 3 жыл бұрын

GREAT work!!!

@DanielLopez-up6os 3 жыл бұрын

This overclocking video was super exciting and enjoyable.

@DanPellegrino486 3 жыл бұрын

Your channel is going to be huge.

@derek8564 3 жыл бұрын

I had one back in the day. This thing rocked !

@Kedvespatikus 3 жыл бұрын

A legend is born. The real masterpiece here is the overclocking of the PCI bus. Yes, the Game Blaster could take that 60 MHz, but most likely there were other devices on that bus (IDE controller etc.). Insane and ingenous! Now, do you see any chance for that magical 200 MHz? :) :)

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, I am still testing but the results are already very good for a 200 MHz setup. It will be a quiet interesting video as well. Another mainboard, 66.6 MHz Busspeed and multiplier of 3. I am going to beat my own records again. But I need to bring the cpu to 0 degrees to be stable. 😉

@snooopy365 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPUGalaxy I'm quite angry with myself... I didn't keep my 5x86... it was posting and running with 200Mhz without special cooling.... but the Matrox Graphicscard didn't like it, so I just ran it at I believe 150Mhz.

@fetus2280 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats !

@floriankummer1246 3 жыл бұрын

Well done!

@andheeid 3 жыл бұрын

7:18 i love that amibios already support mouse input... i used umc based chipset too for my 486 back in the day

@karolwojtyla3047 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulation! ;)

@soulmata 3 жыл бұрын

A house fire 7 years ago took an entire lifetime of vintage hardware from me, including my favorite rare CPU, an AMD K5 PR-200. Do you have any K5s you could toy around with? I've always wondered if they would function in a dual socket 7 motherboard.

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

cool idea. i have enough k5 and also a nice dual s7 board 🤩

@bandiras2 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPUGalaxy Can't wait to see that! Thanks for your video!

@frogz 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPUGalaxy not all heros wear capes!

@supermoon4861 3 жыл бұрын

I would be interested in seeing a dual Pentium Pro setup. I always wondered what the performance of those would be like. At the time the thought of NT with mutliple processors was very appealing.

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

actually I have a sealed Dual Socket 8 board here. 😀

@sonyericssoner 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Sad than my similiar woodgrain 486 stoped working. I would totaly atempt to beat you

@jamespilcher5287 3 жыл бұрын

The intro sting alone was enough for me to subscribe

@carlwillows 3 жыл бұрын

That's a fast 486! Little late in the cycle though. Wasn't long after that came out that I had me a Pentium II rig! (w/agp!!!)

@vapourmile 3 жыл бұрын

Great content from this channel as always. For PC enthusiasts, CPUG is without peer on KZfaq. Hopefully this will start a 486 war and we'll finally see just how much could have been squeezed from that CPU. I'd be happy to see the same for earlier Intel chips. Often the PC chassis they were put in didn't do them justice.

@Edman_79 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice! And you have a new subscriber :D

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@VincentFischer 3 жыл бұрын

Wow the bios gui looks nicer then from my PCs today.

@CptJistuce 3 жыл бұрын

I have that exact motherboard, only the two unpopulated pads in the corner have Fake Cache(TM) on them. It truly is glorious how the traces wrap around from one side of the fake cache area and reconnect back on the other side.

@KasparOnTube 3 жыл бұрын

I really liked that cooling solution :D

@docpaul 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video - thanks for all the effort you put into this - I was doing this 20 years ago!

@briangleeson1528 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video! This is the CPU I used on my very first PC build.

@AccidentalMisfire09 3 жыл бұрын

No way! I didn't realize what I had. I was watching the video and thought this looked familiar. I got an X5-133ADW from a failed estate sale, with an "X" marked on it. It's definitely a cool conversation piece on how different CPUs are today.

@the_holy_forestfairy 3 жыл бұрын

Glückwunsch!

@RuruFIN 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see more retro overclocking stuff from you :)

@kokodin5895 3 жыл бұрын

man this is my "the first computer" cpu, and motherboard if not the same it is very very similar. you have much better graphics though the bios is the same i am already crying from nostalgia that sound counting memory and you even have 16 megs of ram also i love it

@Stefan_Payne 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, higher gains than the increas in clockspeed. Interesting what difference "Plattform Performance" can make.

@alphadog6970 3 жыл бұрын

More videos like this i really enjoyed it. 😉😉

@thomassmith4999 3 жыл бұрын

The fastest setups of these old days machines have be lost to time 20 years ago. Almost no one remembers even the slot one records or mobile barton records anymore. It's a real shame but at least we can try again now.

@arthurmann578 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I remember playing the original Half Life using an AMD 486 (5x86?)120 Megahertz, slightly over clocked. I can't remember the speed I managed to get it up to as it was so long ago. I also was using a rather crappy PCI graphics card at the time and I actually enjoyed the experience! My friends could not believe I could actually do this until they saw for themselves. I wish that I had your setup at the time as I can only imagine how much faster it might have been! I think that I may still have that old motherboard and processor around somewhere, minus the HUGE tower case that I had it installed in. I miss those days..... Great video by the way! Subscribed! 👍👍

@IanSlothieRolfe 3 жыл бұрын

So, how many X5-133's do have to test to find one that will clock this fast? You must have a pretty huge drawerfull!

@jameshare1848 3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

@ctiborkoza8944 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for the great video

@mikegaming4924 3 жыл бұрын

It is interesting to see a channel where old components are overclocked and benchmarked. I will look if you have Voodoo3 overclocks here.

@KJohansson 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, but wasnt AGP 1.0 "just a 66Mhz PCI"? So any GPU that was available in both PCI and AGP versions should work with your hot-hack? Good video :)

@tsftm4192 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe that C&T mae such a 486 motherboard, its insane, considering there were other companies making extreme boards at the time. Having cache modules on a 486 was extremely rare, I only saw them on later PII and DEC Alpha machines. Your board is similar to my SOYO 486 with all types of connections but you may be able to have 1MB of cache by combining bothe the module and the empty surface mount if you can find and solder the chips. Not a fan of AMI or Phoenix BIOS though, I'm an Award fan. All things considered, you have one of the best 486 platforms to work on. Good job. I have overclocked my 486 machines back in the day, but considering how old they are now, I don't want to stress the electronics, so they run at vanilla specs. You are very lucky to find that motherboard with the cache module. I couldn't find one after months of searching for a RISC motherboard that I had so I gave up.

@DevilishDesign 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh the good old M919. The traces for the two (Unpopulated) cache chips are rather 'interesting' on this board! I had one back in the 90's which had the fake cache chips soldered on :)

@SireSquish 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to hear more about this. What was with those unpopulated spaces anyway?

@DevilishDesign 3 жыл бұрын

@@SireSquish The space was for cache RAM to be soldered to the board. In the case of some revisions of this board, the circuit traces only link the two cache chips together and do not connect to the rest of the board! Pretty useless. For a shot period in the mid 90's cache RAM was very expensive so companies cheated and used fake chips. More detail can be found here... redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html The board used in this video has a real cache module installed in the slot in front of the PCI connectors.

@SireSquish 3 жыл бұрын

@@DevilishDesign That's a combination of surprising, not surprising, hilarious and infuriating. So many things were dodges like that before widespread Internet knowledge.

@rasz 3 жыл бұрын

@@DevilishDesign not "companies", _one company_, PcChips

@DevilishDesign 3 жыл бұрын

@@rasz They were certainly the worst offender but boards from Gigabyte and QDI also had fake cache

@0katmandude0 3 жыл бұрын

brings back memories! we overclocked the living daylights out of a similar CPU back in the days. We scavenged a radiator from an amplifier and modded it to fit the motherboard then mounted two cone shaped extension brackets to funnel air from a big industrial 5V 160mm fan to 120 , then to 80mm to fit on the radiator. that fan was way way too powerful for the fan header, so I rigged the one of the rails to supply the wattage and the amps to the fan. you know you've made a big mistake when the air coming off it can tear stuff of the MB. but hey it worked and we had something in the region of 25 to 30% overclock on the cpu.

@ms-dosman7722 3 жыл бұрын

Really well done! Hope you can get a 3x66 mhz FSB working for the next attempt!

@stevec00ps 3 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed the PCI embedded IDE/SuperIO controller works at 60Mhz too!

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

yeah, I was amazed as well. 😊

@Frontman936 3 жыл бұрын

So good. I always wondered how fast a 486 could be pushed

@thicclink 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@pvc988 3 жыл бұрын

1. Try sticking a bit of red or orange electric tape over that 7 segment display to make it more readable for the camera. 2. I think it should be possible to modify the BIOS to override that 2x PCI clock divider. Or even better, write simple tool to change the setting on the fly from DOS (as long as there is any decent documentation available for the chipset).

@vdfritzz 3 жыл бұрын

wow, this brings me back, the pc of the house used to be a pentium 100, the motherboard was similar to this

@Choralone422 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty neat. That board is definitely a unicorn among 486 boards! I also had one of those AMD chips in my 486 board back in the mid 90's. I ended up having to run mine at 3x40 for a 120 mhz total speed. My board would not recognize anything higher than a 3x multiplier no matter what settings I tried so I ran it at the max bus speed of 40 mhz. By the same time that board was released you could buy a non-MMX Pentium up to 200 mhz which would blow that 486 chip out of the water in Quake. But it's still neat to see it clocked that fast!

@suvetar Жыл бұрын

Impressive!

@GabrielZ666 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, absolutely amazing! I have the same setup and a couple of AMD X5s but I don't even dare to try! What about using another graphics card? I remember testing a GF2 MX400 just for fun on an M915 with a DX4-100 and noticed a huge improvement in Doom, although I didn't test Quake. Can't wait to see the 200mhz video!!!!

@ltlk937 3 жыл бұрын

Still loving your new intro!!

@BM-jy6cb 3 жыл бұрын

The PR133 is super rare? Dammit! Mine went to landfill many years ago. I think it was the only drop-in replacement processor that impressed me. I noticed a significant performance boost after replacing my 486dx2100 and as you mentioned, you got Pentium performance for the price of a 486

@theposguy1435 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@SUCRA 3 жыл бұрын

This is fascinating.

@albase1112 3 жыл бұрын

Geez…This is freaking AMAZING 😳 I mean reaching about ten times the normal CPU clock speed alone is sub-zero but the fact that the north bridge as well as the RAM modules is still willing to work at 60MHz is something I had never expected would be feasible 😶 Outstanding work! 😍

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. But check out then my 200 Mhz video. ☺️ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gq9hkrWdu7LMpWw.html

@albase1112 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPUGalaxy you‘re kidding me 😳

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

😇😉

@DeiviZZZ Жыл бұрын

I love that intro!

@amdintelxsniperx 3 жыл бұрын

thats so smoooooooooth :)

@lustechsource5197 3 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed the video. I had an AMD 133Mhz CPU that I overclocked to 166MHz. No FPU though. I didnt add any extra cooling to it and it died several months later. That did give me an excuse to get a new CPU with an FPU so I could finally play quake without going to my Universities computer labs.

@nikmilosevic1696 3 жыл бұрын

AWESOME. Still have one of these boards with a 5x86 chip and the fastest RAM I could find in the day (50ns). Used to scare the pentium 90 users with it clocked to 50MHz bus @ 150MHz CPU. I remember having trouble getting cards that would work with bus setting at 50MHz. Used to run it at 160MHz on a 40MHz bus also. But 180MHz, thats fantastic.

@Imperious685 3 жыл бұрын

Well Done Sir on those results, also for thinking outside the box technically to get there. I have a PCI Voodoo Banshee that's really fast in Dos so I wonder if that would work at 66mhz PCI speeds.

@brucetungsten5714 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I could only source one am5x86 capable of 180 mhz so far - boots up with 200 but it's unfortunately a no go. The i486Dx4 goes up to 133 max. - and that's pushing it.

@SergiuszRoszczyk 3 жыл бұрын

This reminded me of an awesome Pentium III-333 MHz in Slot 1 format that was in fact 500 MHz and was working awesome at default voltage settings.

@CPUGalaxy 3 жыл бұрын

lol. funny that you say that now. Coz exactly now I am sitting in front of a PII mobo and was overclocking a 300 Mhz PII to 450 MHz and very surprised that this is working stable.

@wishusknight3009 3 жыл бұрын

@@CPUGalaxy Lots of deschutes core P2's would do 450. 500 was a little rarer though. All Covington celerons and most all celeron 300A cpu's would as well.

@thomassmith4999 3 жыл бұрын

@@wishusknight3009 The celeron 300a's would nearly all run over 500mhz and were much faster than the Pentium 2. I had a dual CPU celeron 300A at just over 500.. Drilled pin to enable SMP and voltage mods.

@wishusknight3009 3 жыл бұрын

@@thomassmith4999 Not in my experience back in the day. I had several examples where they didn't. Even with volt mods we rarely got them to 504 as it took me a good 30 examples before I had one in my personal machine running 504. We used to sell them pre-overclocked at our little shop back when they were available. About 1 in 5 would not run 450 unless they were at 2.4 volts. But most would do 450 with only a 2.1v mod or no volt mod at all.

@thomassmith4999 3 жыл бұрын

@@wishusknight3009 Were you in the #celeron group on EFNET? those were great days. I didn't see anyone not being able to run 450 back then but getting 504 stable was a bit of a challenge. My CPUs were lapped back to copper. I was using the DFI board, the capacitors failed in the late 2000s but I'm going to try and fix it soon. I could run 450 on standard voltage.

@armchaircommenter6805 3 жыл бұрын

great video as always, congratulations on the great result! i wonder if der8auer could beat your scores with ln2... ;)

@CommodoreFan64 3 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering if you added active cooling with thermal paste/pad if you could get this closer to 200Mhz? Also yep that bios brings back some memories as we had some Gateway computers back in high school in my computer network tech class that had them.

@mndlessdrwer 3 жыл бұрын

It feels so odd yet somehow nostalgic to be speaking of these components as if they were still current and I could go out to my local electronics store and purchase them.