First post, by sunaiac
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Hey guys,
let me introduce myself :
I'm a 30 years old French geek who'd like to build the computer he was dreaming of when he was stuck on the family 33MHz SX486 machine because he didn't have the money. Sadly, when I got it (the money) years later, I got a 333MHz Pentium II computer.
Well time has passed, money is still here, and nostalgia stronger than ever, so time as come to try to build a fully functional high end 486 system.
What I'd like it to be :
- intel 486 DX4 100, and probably a POD83 to switch with in case some quake is to be played (but the 486 goal is to be the perfect 2d box, for later games, i'll probably rebuild another computer I had, a 1.26 tualatin, or the previously mentionned 333MHz PII)
- as much memory as possible (i'd like to put half off it in a ramdisk, like 64 ram + 64 ramdisk)
- a tower case with speed written on a LCD
- multimedia PC 2 level, but best sound possible
- at least 2GB HD, so i can have 6.22/3.11 combo, a 95 and maybe a linux
What I got till now :
- HOT-433 4.0 Shuttle UMC motherboard
- 4x16MB EDO RAM
- new POD83
- used 5x86 133 AMD
- 2940U2W SCSI controler
- Intel PRO/100+ NIC
- 3com 905 NIC
So my first question is, what between those three boards would be the best (and why ?) : - http://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-MAGITRO […]
So my first question is, what between those three boards would be the best (and why ?) :
- http://www.ebay.com/itm/USED-MAGITRONIC-486-M … =item2ebe6db7b3
- http://www.ebay.com/itm/SHUTTLE-433-Ver-4-0-M … =item231c73b01f
- http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-486-Motherboa … =item20c511dfda
- http://cgi.ebay.fr/vintage-carte-mere-SMT486- … =item2c651650c7
- http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-486-Motherboa … =item20c511f753
- http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-486-Motherboa … =item20c511443e
- another one I'd missedThe two last seems to be clones. All of them are pretty expensive, but not worst than the 150$+ from canada ...
I'd prefer some PCI over a full ISA/VLB system, for network cards, USB, etc...