i486 DX

i picked up a few i486 DX's today.

just wonderin how slow they are and how much i could sell em for

Sell them? Good luck. I have a whole box full of useless old junk like that. 486s aren't good for much these days.

i've heard of people that take them to melt the gold down and make a living doing that

Make keychains of them and sell them @ ebay

I think 486 start somewhere at 12 Mhz and ramp up to 66 (the DX / SX)

Theyre good fun blowing up with uber voltage, or using as target practice

I managed to sell 2 old P1 133MMX's online a month back...over 10€/$ each..maybe theres demand for 486 as well

If they are 486DX chips they should be 25, 33 or 40mHz. The 66mHz were the 486DX/2.they did for a time also make a 486/100/DX4. I have a friend who used a slew of them to tile a floor in his small bathroom. (Keychains are your best bet) I think you can at best load Win95, MAYBE 98, but other than a bit of slow web surfing those are not good for much.

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EDIT: AMD made some 486 clones(also called DX/4) There were even 5x133's too but there was NEVER a DX over 40mHz. anything higher was a DX/2 DX/4 etc...

Dude, the 486 line went quite a bit further than even 100mhz... The AM486's went from 16mhz all the way to 133mhz, and overclocked as far as 200mhz with voltage and luck

I had an AM486 DX3/120 (that was the stock speed) that did 150 pretty reliably; I also had an AM486 DX4/133 that did 160 reliably and would POST and work for a short while at 200 -- but it always eventually locked up. Maybe with some serious lapping and other such recently available knowledge, I could've had it working that speed all the time?

A 200mhz 486 was probably about equal with a Pentium 133-150 at most, depending on what you were doing.

Get a DOS box running for all those old school games you know you love like Death Rally.

Wolfenstein ROCKED back in those days

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