eebuckeye Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I thought the 5170 was a 286 processor but when I powerup my system it shows a 486DX. That seems like a substantial upgrade from the base and I am surprised it was even possible. Anyone have any details on how this could have been upgraded? I am not very familiar with the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 The term "AT form factor" exists for a reason. Prolly mobo swap. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Shuttle continued to make AT form factor motherboards right through earlier Pentium class CPUs. My 5170 ended up with a Pentium, Sound Blaster Pro and an AGP Voodoo Banshee graphic card. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eebuckeye Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 Makes sense.. I'll have to inspect the motherboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wierd_w Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 There were also 'turbo AT' cards, that put a bigger cpu on the ISA bus, and used a ribbon cable to the cpu socket to drive the rest of the memory bus. Things like the Intel InBoard, and various others. Apparently, it's possible to stack such upgrades... https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/running-486-on-inboard-386.47554/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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