I'm having trouble finding a socketed 386 motherboard on fleabay. All the results I'm turning up include CPUs (and most actually have permanently attached surface-mount CPUs).
I have a 386-16 + 387-16 pair sitting here, and I'd like to try them out.
Are there any decent makes/models that anyone can suggest?
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Well, I don't think you will have much choices...
But the AMI Babyscreamer board seems to be ok.
But usually the difference is not so big, get a board with cache (64 kB usually) and socketed oscillator.
7 or 8 ISA slots, one is usually 8 bit. 8 SIMM sockets or memory card if not onboard. Take care that the BIOS/chipset accepts also 4 MB SIMMs.
Chipset preference according to the boards I have:
Ali , SiS, Eteq but Opti seems to be good as well. Generally late 386 boards tend to have a bit better performance. Late means 1993 / 1994...
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Thanks for that.
The 386-16 is a double-sigma chip, which is why I'm kinda interested in getting it up and running.
Do those Baby Screamer boards show up often?
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Do you just want to test and run some benchmarks?
I might be willing to lend you my 386.
I don't have any spare 386 boards unfortunately.
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