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From memory a 486DX4-100 or an overclocked 486DX2-66 (to 80MHz) could just about handle 128kbit MP3s
by matja 4y ago
From memory a 486DX4-100 or an overclocked 486DX2-66 (to 80MHz) could just about handle 128kbit MP3s
- A-Train 4y agoAh nostalgia... This was my first PC processor. I remember my CPU came with some sort of a bug that prevented me running windows 3.11 on it.
- bane 4y agoYeah, I seem to remember there was that brief time period where my PC could barely play MP3s and I used to treat them like zip archives -- rendering them back out to WAV files to play them back. I think you're right and that was around the 486 DX2, DX4, Pentium transitional time period.
- SillyUsername 4y agoInteresting. My Amiga with a 68030 @42Mhz could just about pull off mono 128Kbps decoding (as long as you didn't multitask too much). That would suggest the 486 was almost clock comparable to a 68030 at least for lossy decompression, perhaps the 486 was around ~110% had their been a 68030 series 80Mhz equivalent.
- bouncycastle 4y agoI wonder if that was also an I/O limitation rather than just a CPU thing. Old floppies probably would not handle 128kbit. Hard drives were slow too, so was memory and bus.
- vlasky 4y agoI remember I could play 128kbit MP3s in full quality using mpg123 running under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 ONLY when I overclocked my 486DX4-100 to 120Mhz.