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Twoquickcapri's 386sx16 Build - Turbo Button Included

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First post, by twoquickcapri

Posted on 2013-08-16, 07:15

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This is one of the few PC I'm in the middle of building and since it the most complete I feel like I'm ready to show it off.

The Specs:
CPU: Intel 386sx16
MathCO: 80387SX ULSI Systems
M/B: Has no model # on it but it has a SIS 85c206 on it
RAM: 4MB 30 Pin 70ns
HDD: CONNER CFS420A 420MB w/ 2x partition of 200MB
Video: Diamond Video Speedstar Pro (Cirrus Logic 5428) 1MB
Sound: Sound Blaster ViBRA16
O/S: DOS 6.22

I was have problems running HDD with more then 200MB in a partition. The system would stall when starting a new program and would not start the program until I pushed the turbo button. Almost gave up on the M/B but I have an old 210MB HDD with DOS 5.0 on it and the HDD acted normal which lead me to partition my 420MB HDD to two 200MB partitions and everthimg working out alright.

M/B

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Under the hood

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The case

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Norton CPU Index

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Norton Overall Performance Index

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Reply 1 of 11, by LunarG

Posted on 2013-08-16, 09:03

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Looks good 😀
Ahh, those days were funny, when the computer manufacturers though that 3.5" drive bay covers should look like a floppy drive 😁

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Reply 2 of 11, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2013-08-16, 10:51

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Does this board have a removable 386SX? That would make it quite uncommon.

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Reply 3 of 11, by rgart

Posted on 2013-08-16, 12:10

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I like that style of case alot. What games do you plan to play on that beast?

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Reply 4 of 11, by Old Thrashbarg

Posted on 2013-08-16, 15:07

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I like that style of case alot.

There's actually an eBay seller that has a bunch of those NOS, though shipping to Australia would probably cost a truly shocking amount of money.

Reply 5 of 11, by Half-Saint

Posted on 2013-08-16, 19:50

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Nice case for a 286/386 😀

Shipping to Europe is $29 which isn't all that bad. The problem is the 21% import tax..

Reply 6 of 11, by twoquickcapri

Posted on 2013-08-17, 01:51

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rgart wrote:
I like that style of case alot. What games do you plan to play on that beast?

I was playing Crazy Cars III last night but I built it for games Like Mechwarrior and Test Drive 3 which run to fast on newer PC. I have a Pentium Pro running DOS and they are crazy fast on that system. I also have a CGA game called Red Baron which works well when I de-turbo the 386 to 8 mhz

LunarG wrote:
Looks good 😀
Ahh, those days were funny, when the computer manufacturers though that 3.5" drive bay covers should look like a floppy drive 😁

It already ticked me once when I first but the system together. Floppy disk don't fit in the cover for some reason. 😕

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Does this board have a removable 386SX? That would make it quite uncommon.

The CPU sits on raised pins and looks to be solder to the pins. I didn't try to remove the CPU so I'm not sure if it is solder or not.

Reply 7 of 11, by chinny22

Posted on 2013-08-17, 16:54

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I got given a case years ago that had a fake floopy drive cover, the case was horrible but I loved that fake floppy for some reason.
It is a real nice case good find! Its a nice setup in general.
400MB in a 386 I doubt you'll run out of space, partitioned or not

Reply 8 of 11, by rgart

Posted on 2013-08-17, 17:25

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Old Thrashbarg wrote:
I like that style of case alot.

There's actually an eBay seller that has a bunch of those NOS, though shipping to Australia would probably cost a truly shocking amount of money.

Yeah. Beautiful case!

I've had it on my watch list on e-bay for ages but at $113 US Shipping to Australia I cant even consider it.

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Reply 9 of 11, by Marko71

Posted on 2013-09-19, 08:31

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Looks great, it reminds me of my 1st PC, it had a very similar case & was a 386SX16 but someone had fitted it with a 36MHz crystal for a minor overclock.

Time to go hunting desktop AT cases & 386 boards for a bit of memory lane fun methinks 😀

Reply 10 of 11, by vetz

Posted on 2013-09-20, 19:42

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Half-Saint wrote:
Nice case for a 286/386 😀

Shipping to Europe is $29 which isn't all that bad. The problem is the 21% import tax..

It's $77 to Europe, even Slovenia.

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Reply 11 of 11, by Robin4

Posted on 2013-09-29, 22:33

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LunarG wrote:
Looks good 😀
Ahh, those days were funny, when the computer manufacturers though that 3.5" drive bay covers should look like a floppy drive 😁

I also have a case with a fake floppy drive bezel.. But i really dont like it..Then i always have to hassle with put in floppys from sideways of the computer case.
And always put the floppy in that fake bezel thing.. 😒

~ At least it can do black and white~

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