Will it take a 5x86? Restoration & Upgrades. IBM Aptiva 2144 Multimedia PC. 486DX2-66 with VLB

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One of IBMs best looking vintage PCs restored & upgraded. How fast will it go? Testing with a socket blaster
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@IcySon55 Жыл бұрын

Ahhh, Aptivas... My childhood PC was an Aptiva 2136 which I recently located and fully restored beyond its original parts! Back in 96 I had the 2136 with 32MB of ram, a Pentium MMX 166 and the IBM Crystal based sound card, notably with the IBM Aptiva S-W1/C - Wavetable dautgherboard. It took quite some time to track down both a working 2136 and the S-W1/C, but eventually I did and now it's happily running Windows 95 just as it was in the late 90s because I still had my recovery discs!

@LuisGuzmanJr Жыл бұрын

You have the best content on the 90s IBM "IBM compatible clones" 😉 on KZfaq.

@stepanrumyantsev6098

Wow! Thank you very much for the video, was a pure joy to watch. I got a very similar IBM Aptiva in the same case back in late 1995 - early 1996 but with a Cyrix 5x86 at 100 MHz inside (when I saw 5x86 in the title I though you will be installing this CPU as it is natively supported). My motherboard layout was similar to the VLB one from your video, I remember this because in 2001 or so I upgraded the RAM to 40 MB from stock 8 MB (which allowed to finally install Windows 98) and maxed out the cache (which made visible difference in OS responsiveness and improved loading time in some games) and the RAM slots and cache sockets looked identical to yours.

@AmstradExin Жыл бұрын

I had a PS/1 for a loong time. It had a 486DX 33 and I upgraded it to a DX2/66 and 24MB RAM. I ran Windows 98 on it and it took 6 hours to install.

@michaelblair5566 Жыл бұрын

I used to repair Aptivas in this era.

@BigBadBench Жыл бұрын

Nice work, Love the performance documentation of each of the changes. Those flip down fronts are sexy!

@CobraTheSpacePirate Жыл бұрын

I bought that PC used when I was living in Japan in 1998! I was programming with tinyC and programming fire demos and other graphic stuff for hobby fun. I spent time at the international center on the internet downloading stuff to floppy drives to take home. LOL!

@richardestes6499

Besides Ambra, Aptiva's other contemporary was the ValuePoint series. My elementary school had a bunch of them, and they all used a CRT that looked just like that one.

@datPinto Жыл бұрын

Love these machines and the PS/1's... Had a PS/1 Consultant myself... 486 sx 25 mhz, 4 meg ram, 170 MB hard disk...

@joetheman74

I would have like to see you solder cache and any extra necessary chips to get it working to the other board and run it with the AM5X86. I am curious to see if it would beat the more expensive board if it had cache installed.

@m4rgin4l Жыл бұрын

I had never seen this particular design on IBM PCs. I love it!

@antonioesposito585 Жыл бұрын

I have an aptiva 2144-921 with a detachable VRM inserted in the connector "filled with jumpers" . In my experience amd 5x86 works very slow in aptiva, otherwise cyrix 5x86.

@Shand1982 Жыл бұрын

Always loved these desktop Aptivas, I have a similar era Aptiva M series tower, 1996, Pentium 120 with Mwave card running Win 95. I love the M series tower, but the desktop is just a nice clean design. I had a much earlier 386sx PS1 'Consultant' based on the same chassis in the desktop form factor, a lovely neat machine but sadly the motherboard completely died. I also have a PS1 tower, DX33. Awesome video, great work, thank you!

@user-ci4zq8sw4l

I'm a little late to the party, but I have a PC330 DX4-100 (model 6571), which uses the same motherboard as the second (VLB) machine here. Some notes from my tinkering: