I have not posted here in a while. But i felt like this topic needed a better closure.
First, A big thanks to all of you who helped me here, I learned much and ended up with a great 486 system. Computer performs very well, is stable and runs games of the Era splendidly. Here are some pictures of the finalized build.
Specs: Evergreen AM586x133mhz, 32mb ram, 64 kb cache, 6.4 gb fujitsu hdd, ATI vga wonder XL, MediaChips MAD16 sound card, Protec NE2000 compatible NIC adapter. I may yet swap the sound card for something else and/or add a mpu401 later.
The case is a bit plain and lacking the digital tubro display, but its clean and solid. Its also well buit in the inside. There is always room for modding if i want it more "blingy"
On this picture you can see how i attached a ball bearing fan to cool the evergreen overdrive chip. I used tie-wraps and some rubber to fix it right above the chip. The cpu used to be too hot too touch, now its barely warm and this fan is very quiet.
There you see the 6.4gb hd on the right, a good view of PSU and floppy drives. I have cleaned everything inside out, opened psu, inspected parts, dusted everything thoroughly, floppy drives heads have been carefully cleaned, Hard drive was surface scanned and found to be great. This 486 can also boot from CDs and can read pretty much anything thanks to this good quality Plextor CD-RW drive.
Now this system above had been disfigured by battery acid and some of you were very pessimistic, but it was actually still strong in the inside and it feels great now after a good cleaning and some fixing up. Was not as bad as it looked.
Really, this thread has been great, BUT IM NOT DONE YET!!!
I recently found a 486dx2 66 mhz. Complete system with VLB video card and stuff. But it suffered Extensive ACID damage due to damned NiCd battery leaking all over. This time it is MUCH worse than the above system was, it will not boot, traces are destroyed all over ... Stay tuned for my next potentially tragic 486 thread: " To save or not to save ... a 486 "