Keatah Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) Was thinking of temporarily upgrading my old 486 from 50MHz to 100Mhz and from 16MB RAM to 64MB. The processor would be a used PowerStacker. But the RAM would be new 30-Pin SIMMS made from NOS chips. The total cost would be 168 bucks. 40 for the chip and 128 for the memory. Edited June 14, 2020 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 temporarily? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted June 14, 2020 Author Share Posted June 14, 2020 (edited) Long enough to make it go faster to do some restoration and "major" re-installation and re-organization of the 3 hard disks. Then I'd put it back to stock configuration like back in the day. It's a sentimental computer. I'd rather not "trash" its original parts. Edited June 14, 2020 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Hold onto the new parts as spares. No more mental hangups. the costs of suitable RAM and other parts will ONLY go up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 put the drives in a different machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxpressed Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 I'd buy a Socket 7 mobo with a nice Pentium 233 MMX CPU to do the reorg. Then you'd have a really nice Pentium system that is much more usable for retro gaming than the 486. And I love 486 boards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathAdderSF Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 It's worth in $$$ what you think it's worth to help achieve your goal. Personally I'd only pay $100+ if it were to be a permanent upgrade. But that's me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 for me its worth 20 bucks to buy a junky old core 2 duo system with IDE and floppy controllers, get the shit done as fast as possible and go back to my retro system which is exactly why my garage machine is a AMD Phenom X2 system with a bunch of PCI slots and legacy support, though any desktop that supports legacy bios will boot into DOS (with restrictions naturally) including the brand new 6 core Ryzen system I made my wife within the last month hell pay shipping Ill send you a core 2 duo machine with IDE ports, make backup's, take care of your maintenance just by yanking the drive and getting on with it, save you 140 bucks and days of moving shit via command line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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