AST Research Advantage! 486SX/33 - Boot Up & Game Demo

[@TheRealHalleyRabbit]

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Startup sounds perfect. Pure HD. 10/10.

[@Vladimir94105]

This dell PC on the bottom looks interesting, what model it is?

[@redleader6442]

It's a Dell Precision 210 workstation. 440BX, dual 450MHz Pentium III's, TNT2 Ultra. Quite the powerhouse for 1999.

[@Vladimir94105]

@@redleader6442 Cool! it supports 4x512mb SDR or only 4x256mb?

[@redleader6442]

@@Vladimir94105 I never tried using 512MB modules because I only have 256 on hand, so it had 1 GB. As a matter of fact, I believe the 440BX has a max of 1 GB. It wasn't until the 828xx series of chipsets, supporting RDRAM, that allowed for 2 GB.

[@Vladimir94105]

@@redleader6442 but still, 1GB RAM for 2x450MHz pentium 3 is good amount

[@redleader6442]

@@Vladimir94105 Honestly, even just 512 MB is great for that time period. I just doubled it for the novelty.

[@cdos9186]

What hard drive is in that machine?

[@redleader6442]

It's a Samsung Apollo 250MB 3.5" IDE drive.

[@cdos9186]

@@redleader6442 Interesting name, does it have any bad sectors? Seems like a good fit for that machine.

[@redleader6442]

@@cdos9186 A few, unfortunately, but it still runs great. Quiet bearings and relatively quick to access. It's actually for sale, currently. I sold the AST Advantage! it came from because I found out, belatedly, that it had no L2 cache nor any sockets for any, so even a Pentium OverDrive wouldn't improve it enough for newer DOS games like Duke Nukem 3D. As this was to be my DOS gamer, that just didn't work for me.
I'll be posting videos of the AST's replacement eventually.