AMD X5-133 OC to 200 MHz & Peltier Cooling / DOS & Windows 98 Benchmarks 3DFX / Worlds Fastest 486 

Thank you for all that you do, and thank you for making such an awesome video! Congratulations on this record--this is no easy feat, and it's impressive just how much work you've put into this and getting it stable! This is such an impressive effort and really goes beyond the limits of what I ever thought was possible with a 486 on a 500nm process! The fact that you got Windows 98 stable absolutely blows my mind. That is not always an easy feat on a 486, and on this 486 that's overclocked so heavily is absolutely mind-blowing! Funny enough, I happen to own an LS486E, but mine is the Revision D variant, and does not seem to be easily over-clockable to 66MHz, at least not without some degree of modification. 4V isn't even that much of an overvolt! Your CPU is such an awesome example of the X5, and I just cannot fathom how tough it would be to find another such CPU that's so highly overclockable! I am absolutely beyond impressed. Also, I just have to say, thank you greatly for all of your kind words and for the shoutout! I really do appreciate it, and I can't wait to see what crazy cool project you come up with next!

Overclocking the bananas out of a 486 with a peltier is literally what my nerdy friends and I fantasized about in high school. Thank you for letting me live the dream. :D

Wow! I'm impressed. I would have never thought I'd see a 486 running at 200MHz stable. Good job, sir!

This is like reliving my childhood. I accidentally set a 486-133 to 40mhz bus when I built a computer for someone. I saw the 160 at boot up and was like hmm. All benchmarks were much faster. We started selling them pre over clocked to customers and they were always amazed at how fast they were. It was literally about as fast as a Pentium 90-100mhz.

I'm...speechless now a bit. It's not just chip lottery. You also needed knowledge about that mobo and its hidden 66 MHz FSB. Maximum respect, sir!

This is great.. my favourite PC architecture being overclocked to extreme all done over 2 decades after it's release..

You are a true master at 486 performance tweaks. Congratulations on beating your own record. It's truly amazing that your 486 can run the Quake time demo at over 21 fps! Thank you for challenging the community with this awesome test, you can count on us for the next ones as well! Thanks for the shout out, it's a pleasure being a part of this. #486QuakeRace challenge lives on!

totally mind=blown you achieved this with a 486. I enjoy all your videos but this is just incredible. it brings me joy someone used a peltier again, I thought those crazy overclock projects with Celerons in the early 2000s were awesome but this takes things to a whole other level. #486quakerace

Awesome result! There might be some wiggle room here with a voodoo 3 PCI!

I only had mine at 160MHz on air cooling. Running NFS2 on a 486 - I never even tried. That's pure alchemy!

This is the best thing I have seen in a long time....... Man, I miss 3DFX....

Gottseidank wieder eine neue Folge, war schon auf Entzug

this... is... simply amazing...

Love these retro overclock videos!

Sounds like a server and performs like one of that era. Pretty cool, literally.

Well done for kickstarting this contest to see how far the 486 can be pressed, you are a legend!

Absolutely insane. Love your work with retro overclocking. Taking me back to the days when I got my Cyrix 5x86 to 133mhz and Celeron 300A to 504Mhz. Good times!

Hats off! This is excellent, well documented and very intresting for a nerd! More of this! :)

Thank you so much . AMD has always been special

Uses old CPU's and married a Soviet woman. My kind of man!

Nice! This is real dedication! Keep up the great work...

That's awesome! I knew you if someone would be able to reach that! Love your videos, really well-put together! Greetings from Sweden.

Awesome!!! This is on another level 🙂

Congratulations for this outstanding achievement! I'm always inspired with your passion. You've set the bar really high.

Nice vídeo as always, one of my favorite channels, regards from Argentina!!!

AWESOME video, as always! exactly the thing i wanted to see you do! :) congratulations on the wr! 👏

Incredibly well presented content. Good job!

This was pretty amazing to watch. Great stuff

IIRC Half Life minimum requirements needed a pentium 133. I wonder how this setup performs in that game. Awesome job!

Amazing work. Great video. Thank you!

What a blast! Awesome :) The good old times where we were after fps. :D

Great work! Congrats on the trophy!

Very entertaining ! Thanks for 30 mins of fun. :)

I knew this was coming but I was still surprised by the results! Great Video!

Always something special 👍 What a great little chip, and congratulations Sir, that Quake timedemo was awesome to watch.

Hi Sir! only one word AMAZING !!!!! I want to thank you the time and effort to do this video and share it with us. Amazing setup

Also the fact that you tested for stability is great, I got my 5x86 to 160 and it was pretty fast at quake (17.4) but it would not end a Doom timedemo, yours is just flawless!

incredibly video and incredibly great CPU, my compliment

Very impressive, thanks for sharing

This is amazing i never thinked a 486 cpu could reach this insane clock speed you did a very great job keep up with this kind of projects

Great results thanks for showing this off

That thermal paste application at 7:17 though! :D :D

I salute you sir - I know the amount of time spent and trial and error it took to deliver us this great video was probably a lot - the 486 holds a special place in my life and seeing this made me dust off my old Taken socket 3 motherboard which to my surprise still worked

Great video! I have no doubt this will be beat.

I spent several years using an AMD DX4 at 120MHz (which was trivial then, all you needed to do was change the FSB jumper, you didn't need to give it more voltage or more cooling or anything). I already had much more powerful workstations then, but I kept the 486 around for many more years long after I'd retired even the newer machines just because it was so unique and the last of its kind on my desk. Your channel is bringing back so much nostalgia.

Gods above...! Even at the lowest volume for the video so I could still hear _you_ I find, I still hear the fan being louder. I wouldn't even want to be in the same postal code as that 486 blazing away like that. Well done on the record!

Outstanding work.

I remember the "dx4 overdrive" that I thought my sensei just gave to me. I think he bought it with his own money for me. Well, the early Pentium world did exist then, but thinking back, he probably "didnt just have that laying around". And knew what to send me to add to my computer.

Ok, that was nice to watch! Back in the days, I had an X5-133 ADZ. I tried to overclock it as well. At 160MHz, my trusty Trident 9440 VLB-Card couldn't keep up with the 40MHz Bus speed, leaving pixel errors, until I found a jumper on it to solve that issue. The System then did run somewhat stable with Windows 95, so I tried to run it at 180MHz, but during boot, it quickly freezed while performing POST. Using a small heat sink with a 40x40x10 fan was definitively not enough :D Thanks for the video!

Excelente!!! Good job! 💪🏼

It's a very nice job for you doing with the 486! 😀😀 Well done it desired to 486 Quake Race Champion. :D

Awesome fun. Well done.

I got flashbacks of me trying to run Quake on a 486DX2 way back then! My 13 year old self would have loved to own this! Great video!

Very nice results!

just made my morning !

I bet that copper sink was boiling hot towards the end of the run there. Very cool. A little nuts, but very cool. Lol...

Nice work! Only a couple frames short of my K6-2/375 PC in GLQuake, really impressive.

Ahh, beat me to this setup! Also running an LS-486 and a peltier cooler. Though I was going to run a Rendition Verite for the video card but that's just to start. 3D Blaster Bashee and V3 2000 also stand by to potentially make some gains! Work is in the way of videos at the moment though... Gotta pay the bills!

Always excited to see what this channel will do next! Keep up the great content.

Now that is one screaming fast 486, and I don't just mean because of the loud fan :). Nice job getting the system to perform stable at these clocks and timings. I'm always looking forward to what you come up with next on your channel.

The cooling system is impressive! And by having that processor not exceed 1 degree Celsius while playing and testing it out with such intensive computations, it shows the great care and assurance that you took so that the processor will be intact. It is at the same time funny and to be appreciated for the super-extra safety measures! The Prize at the end made the day! Specially engineered for the processor itself! :)) Great video!

YOUR A MAD MAN!!! Keep it up!

Beautiful, simply beautiful.

That music was pretty chill!

Awesome!!! Lets see if that trophy will change hands!!!!

I don't know why... but I enjoy watching this video over and over again. The ability to overclock an old CPU to such a high frequency is just absolutely amazing!

What a nice video and congratulations! You deserve the title.

My AMD K6-2 has left the chat. :) Wonderful job it is a most impressive accomplishment.

This is cool man. Now I wanna do crazy 5x86 stuff too.

Excellent work! Challenge accepted. :D

Im running a Celeron 300A @ 600/133 aircooled. But that's a childsplay! Thank you for your Video! Great work!

Holy cow!

Not just the fastest, the loudest as well! 😁

Awesome setup! It made me drewl.

... Well done ... Quite remarkable degree of 200 MHz of CPU speed and 66mhz of mainboard FSB speed. Quite well worked and studied project of overclocking a 80486 CPU+80486 mainboard set. Very informative video and your video is making me smile. New projects from you about 80486 CPU's + mainboards or newer and older set of PC hardware I would try to watch. Thanks for the information and efforts.

It still astounds me that all of this is going on so many years after the 486DX4 was released. I have so much love for the platform, as it was my gaming setup as a teenager, so to see it achieving such incredible numbers in 2021 is awesome. All my projects are on hold at the moment, but I can't wait to have another bash, and I think people will keep on having a go at the record for years to come. Loved seeing nearly 30fps in GLQuake on a 486!

I love this! Never knew of anyone overclocking 486's seriously back in the day, it's super interesting to see what they're capable of. Also never really saw a fast 486 paired with a 3DFX card before, it's surprisingly capable... I know the graphics card is the key there but genuinely looks like the 486 at this speed could compete with a slower Pentium.

thats damn awesome!!!

great video.what a nice channel . greets from Argentina

Spreading thermal paste with a finger. What a savage! :)

Wow, a dream 486DX4 CPU!

To be honest, I think you deserve a trophy for putting up with that CPU fan for so long! Fantastic video!

Your 486 would have stomped our family's Pentium back in that day. Nicely done!

Impressive and amazing! Miss your videos hope you are doing fine.

A 5x86-133 was our first serious PC at home. When I was a kiddo I fantasized with that speed. Literally a nerd wet dream come true. More interesting, our moderboard (which I still have) is from LS, the layout is similar but newer revision... HELL YEAH LETS TRY 😍

Great work. We thought 50mhz was crazy fast for a 486 at one point. 200mhz would have blown our mind. It was not until I had a dual pentium pro that I went beyond 200mhz for the first time, it cost a fortune too!

A very nice show. I overclock the intel pentium 133 to 200 MHz in the old days, of course without MMX, congratulations on reaching 198 MHz on 486, challenge accepted :)

Congratulations! Greetings! ;)

Nice that you ran glquake. Was hoping to se a 486 getting in to the 30fps territory. Whats next, LN2 and 240Mhz ;)

CPU Galaxy this is excellent work ! Thanks for your countless hours of work and sharing this all in the name of science and technology. Also, very nice of you to offer the trophy to whoever can beat the record. Have a great day.

Interesting try and benchmark. Didnt know that 486DX4 could reach such freq.

Seeing a 486 run quake as well as that is insane.

Dude... wtf? I love it.

Wooooowww!!! 200mhz on 486😲😲😲!!! Very interesting project!! Thankyou!

Wow. Just wow!

So kann der Sonntag nur gut werden. Tasse черный чай und 30min CPU Galaxy. Absoluter Wahnsinn, dass der AMD 200MHz und das Board stabil 66er FSB mitmacht. Mal sehen, ob jemand einen Chiller oder ne Stickstoffkühlung draufsetzt, um auf 4*60MHZ zu kommen.

For anyone interested, the song used during the build is Milva - Who Knew.

hats off to you sir.

Amazing !

Good job 👍