Hey all, so thanks to advice on this forum I ditched the IBM Valuepoint motherboard I was looking at before, did a bit more research, and have decided on one of these motherboards.

I think it'll do best for my objectives, i.e. a sweet point between by 8086 and my 450Mhz PIII.

It has flaws - the upper right 'secondary cache' chips are likely fake, for example - but I am not looking for making a raw-power 486 here. It's mainly going to be backwards-looking, i.e. running those notoriously picky 286 and 386 programs and games via the Turbo button.

With that in mind, does it matter that much if I don't put any pipeline burst SRAM into the slot provided? Or is this less of a problem than I expected?

For example, would this fit in there fine? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/646731-Gateway-6467 … eAAAOSwzJ5Xdqgo

It comes with a 32MB RAM card as well.

And recommended CPU for my aims? Earlier someone suggested a 486DX 33Mhz - is that still recommended, or would a 66Mhz be better?

Thanks 😀