Very cool looking machine, and I dig the "back story" bit as well. Out of curiosity where did you find the case? It looks almost brand-new. And did you custom make the Rockwell badge?

Cool. Now go and fill those drive bays 😀 5.25 drive would look good. On the sound side, SB Pro 2 would be perfect. Some kind of a midi card with an MT-32 even better. AWE64 with MT-32 as a cheaper option.

Awesome! Gee that's a clean setup, do you have plans to run a higher end Video card? Did you have much trouble running this machine at 50mhz? From what Ive read supposedly the DX50 was meant to be unstable and hardly any cards worked properly, have you had a chance to test other components?

DX50s weren't unstable as long as you designed your system properly. I highly recommend getting an EISA motherboard for that thing. If you want to keep it era specific I recommend one with an Intel chipset. The SiS based EISA boards are better, but if you want 50MHz apparently Intel is where it's at. Some EISA boards also have VLB slots, but those came around after the DX-50 was displaced by the DX2-66.

I like the DX-50 as well, and although I don't have a system built at the moment I do have three DX-50 CPUs lying around just in case.

By the way, you're really playing a risky game running two VLB cards at 50MHz. Officially it can only handle 50Mhz for a single device if it's integrated into the motherboard. 40MHz gets you 1 discrete VLB card. 33MHz gets you 2 discrete VLB cards, and 25MHz gets you 3 discrete VLB cards. The bus is very noisy, so the faster you run it the less devices you can have. Sometimes if your motherboard and cards are good quality (and rated for 50MHz) you can get away with more cards.