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| Intel Overdrive 486 DX4 |
Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-02-28 08:10:01
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303439954433
🙂 Still a couple left as of this post.
This puppy will be going into my 486 gaming DOS PC. Should be quite the boost form my 66MHz DX2 to a 100MHz DX4.
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Posted by: lisa2 on 2020-02-28 09:12:07
Does your motherboard have an "overdrive" socket?
I thought these chips required this socket.
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Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2020-02-28 09:19:31
These are drop-in replacement upgrades for any socketed 486 CPU. The Overdrive versions include an onboard 3.3V regulator to support machines that only have 5V CPU sockets.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-02-28 09:20:18
Maybe I should have done more research. I thought the point of the overdrive was that it had a voltage regulator.
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Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-02-28 09:21:18
Hah, ninjaed by NJRoadfan. 😀 Glad I wasn't wrong.
I do have a motherboard that supports both 3v and 5v chips, but I'm not using that one. So if that were the case, I could've swapped out motherboards. But I like the one I have now because of the orientation of the ISA and VESA slots. I also like the aesthetics of my current board with the 30-pin SIMMs and the little individual cache chips that I put in. The other one has 72-pin RAM and the cache is soldered.
Edit: I did learn the hard way about 3v versus 5v. I used to have an AMD DX4 in the other motherboard, but when I switched over to my current board it's 5v only. So I burnt out my DX4. 🙁 That's why I wanted the Overdrive.
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