HiNT cs8005 chipset 486

[Unknown_K]

Anybody ever use a motherboard with a HiNT chipset (486dx)?

I found a 2 VLB slot MB wth the HiNT CS8005 chipset and never seen one of these before. The board does not use a ZIF socket so I asume it is an early board.

 

[Anonymous Coward]

They're infamous for their crappy "mini EISA" chipsets. I've never seen an ISA/VLB Hint board before, but since it has VLB slots it must be from 1993 or so. VLB wasn't available before 93, right?

 

[Unknown_K]

Not sure when VLB came out since there were proprietary local bus slots out a while before there was a concrete standard. Yea, I googled a bunch of bad 24bit EISA threads (different chipset from the same company) and a bunch of stuff in Russian but little else. I think this might be an early 486SX/DX VLB board. The chip itself is marked Japan (not sure if that means made in Japan or designed there) so how bad can it be?

Odd I never seen one before since I have used just about every 486 board made at some point in time.