5:15 the XT upgrade would require a new keyboard, probably at least 1 HD floppy 1.2 or 1.44 hence they cut on the qty of ram to keep the same price

Ahh I vaguely remember the early 90's computing days. It was around late '91 the first time I built my own PC to replace my Tandy 1000SL. I was 17 and didn't know much yet and went with many of the recommendations of the clerk at the computer shop I bought the hardware from. I built an AMD based 386DX40 machine with 4 megs of ram. A connor 300ish MB hard drive. Generic IO board. A Sound Blaster sound card. Some generic CD rom (though I may have added that later) Some generic MOBO. Some generic 9600 baud modem for going on local BBS. And some generic VGA card. They were selling the Mobo, ram, cpu, I/O card with a 1.44 floppy in a desktop style case as a DIY starter kit where you could then choose your add ons. It was a nice system for the time. I remember how excited I was to go home and stick all my new parts together and start up some games and see how fast my new modem was compared to my Tandy with a 2400 baud modem on my favorite BBS. It was also a nice upgrade to go from Tandy graphics and sound to VGA and a sound blaster. Can't remember what I paid for all that but it was A LOT! Strange how fast PC stuff moved in the 90's. Around 4 years later in 1996 I went back to that same computer shop and bought a used computer from them with an AM486 DX2-66. 8 megs of ram running a dubious copy of Windows 95 with a 1.2 gig hard drive. An S3 video card. ESS sound card, faster modem and so on. A complete working multimedia setup but for me the attraction was it was Internet ready and capable. All this for $300.00. Less than 1/3 what I paid for all that other stuff just 4 years prior. But of course it was already an aging 486 in the days of the Pentium and Pentium hype was everywhere. My little 486 was a good intro to the web.

I had one of those clip onto your CPU versions for upgrading an existing computer, it did work as advertised to some extent. The performance improvement felt a bit underwhelming, it was not what I was expecting, live and learn. :_)) / thanks for the video.

My first PC was an 486DLC-40 based system. So i strongly believed, that i had a real 486DX. But Sim City2000 was so sluggish to play and only the later upgrade to a Cyrix 486DX4-100 solved that problem and was i huge step in term of performance. Many years later i learned about that cyrix 386 on steroids and suddenly everything made sense why it was possible to place a real 386 into the socket and why SC2000 was so slow. But it was always my first PC and i rebuild such a system with a TI486DLC-40 and a fpu together wie 8MB RAM and my beloved Soundblaster16 which i never sold.

Holy cow. This video helped me realize once again just how old I am. I remember buying a Cyrix CPU back then... I was so happy about the performance boost.

I used some sort of a Cyrix 386 to 486 upgrade to spruce up my 386SX 16 MHz Packard Bell, and it was a cheap way to get a few more years out of that system, as it boosted both the instruction set as well as the clock it ran on. Eventually saved up enough for Micron 200 MHz Pentium Pro, and let me tell you that was a mistake. Should have gotten the 233 MHz Pentium MMX like my brother, as that was half the price, and a lot less trouble, and much easier to upgrade, whereas the Pentium Pro was suoer picky on memory...needed not just same memory stick, but also same stepping, as otherwise it wouldn't work. It was a real pain and waste of money, let me tell you. Working like 1000+ hours at minimum wage as a teenager to get it it sure hurt. (Cost me like 4 to 5 times what I spend on a car in high school.)

Once you go SB32 + 4Mb RAM you never go back! And this includes the SB Live Models. Nothing like decent on hardware acceleration etc. Something required due to ISA BUS limitations hehe

The good old days, when there was actual competition in the tech arena.

Thanks for the credits !

I've got the same soundcard myself, never actually used it beyond making sure it works due to having received an ESS 1868F in the same box of parts. At least it doesn't make FM soundtracks appear to be playing from a kids toy, the way the AudioPCI does. That's my bar for terrible FM synth. Even if I get my 386DX-40 PC working, I'll still have no need for it due to my Aztech soundcard with genuine OPL2. But hearing it playing the readme track from Doom II: Hell on Earth - video: AS Media Sound As 16 (OPTi 82C931) - I'd call the FM synth good quality.

HINT into tech history... Lucky Star and Gold Star merged to form Lucky Gold Star, or LG... Side note, MSI is the abbreviation of Micro Star International

I'm glad my first pc was a 386dx40. I was coming from a Commodore 64 and my dad found a used system with 4mb of ram and a 130mb hard drive in fall 1993. I added a soundblaster pro and a 420mb drive in 1994 before upgrading to a 486 dx2/66 in late 94 or early 95(same case, different mb), which got upgraded again before I went off to college in fall 95 to a dx4/100 and 8mb of ram. I upgraded a lot back then, way different than today where I run nearly 10 year old hardware.

First PC we had was a similar cyrix 486dlc-40, ended up taking it to college with me in '95 😄👍

Thanks, it was interesting. Also made me remember that here (in my country) Cyrix 6x86 was pretty popular in 1996-1998. And kudos for Wacky Wheels, it's a just one of several tests but I always have a soft spot for that simple silly game, heh.

Was 9 when this chip came out and the oldest sibling so we didn't quite need a computer for a few years yet. Could definitely see myself falling for the 486slc, expecting to run maxxed doom and then some. And then the disappointment. One of those "a little bit of knowledge is dangerous" products. The history of computing is full of these haha

Did you think about putting the FPU in and re-running the tests?

"Mixed feelings" pretty much summed up computing in the '90's. Regardless what we had, or where we were in life everything changed with DOOM. We then had to beg, borrow, or work for that 486 with 4 megs of ram just to have our hat in the ring. Yes, this same system would be doable, and enjoyable for most as not everyone could commit a few thousand for a system with a few hundred will be a lot less painful. Besides, there was never a right time to buy a computer in the '90's, nor did a person keep it very long before the desperate need to upgrade something kicked in.

One thing I love about KZfaq is that all this stuff that was available in the 90s that child me could never afford but only dream of touching is now online for me to experience. I used to think the Cyrix logo and this chip were the neatest things. I didn't know then what I know now but it doesn't matter: This is cool stuff. No mixed feelings here! 😂 ❤❤

I never did figure out back in the day. But, I always stayed clear of 486slc processors. I hated them. But I loved 486dlc processors. I'm sure or know part of it was the quality of motherboards they are installed in. It was all a budget thing back then.

I actually have a computer with an IBM -486SLC2-75- 486BL3-75 I'm trying to rebuild!

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That is the worse CPU that I ever had the chance of owning. It would crash on Demos like there's no tomorrow, and I did change memory etc to find what the heck was causing it only to conclude it was the stupid CPU. Good for invoicing and stocks software but that's it. All else will end crashing badly. Piece of JUNK.