very nice!
can't wait to see this in action!

Great specs - very similar to mine! Great motherboard that, excellent quality like you say. What OS and what game will you start with?

Thanks!

I learn from the best 😉

Plan is to install MS-DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11. I was also playing with the idea to install my full size ISA Creative VideoBlaster MP400. It's an MPEG player card for even more fun. System requirements state a 486 25mhz SX is required, but maybe a 33DX with good specs will work?

Games will be the Wing Commander, Monkey Island, Sierra games to begin with.

Very nice!

Not sure about that MPEG card though 😀

That case looks very familiar. I'm sure my second computer ever, a 486DLC40, had that case as well...

SCSI is also very nice...

By the way, what's a good source for these crystal oscillators if you want to change clockspeed?

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Not sure about that MPEG card though 😀

I'll test it out and report back. There are almost no practical use of the card anyway. I do not intend to watch VIDEO-CD movies on a 386 😜

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

SCSI is also very nice...

I had to pull out the SCSI drive from my 486 as SCSI won't work on my 486 VLB motherboard when the Pentium Overdrive is installed for some reason (probably because of L1 Write-Back issues). I'll be going with a quick IDE drive for that system. 9GB harddrive is overkill for a 386 system, but the drive is very silent which is what matters. The other option is going with CF cards, but SCSI is more cool 😀

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

By the way, what's a good source for these crystal oscillators if you want to change clockspeed?

No idea. I don't intend to change the clockspeed to 40mhz anyway as any game that requires a faster system can be played either on my 486 system or my Compaq. I also love that the warranty sticker between the motherboard and the CPU has not been broken. This board was delivered with the 386DX, and it has never been removed 😀

Well I got some 386 gear underway and I think 40 MHz might be too fast 😀

I won't be building a PC however, just playing on my test bench, documenting it all and tucking it away in a ready-to-go kit/box for whenever I want to play with it.

For me the 25 and 33 was always the true 386. The 40 MHz model is cool but I never had that emotional vintage connection to it. I remember they had Wing Commander in a computer store on that machine (or was it WC2) and it did feel too fast.

Can't wait to play with all these new (old?) toys 😀

9GB HDD for a 386?Isn't that kind of too much?

PcBytes wrote:

9GB HDD for a 386?Isn't that kind of too much?

Yes, it is overkill, but it is pretty silent and quick. 50pin SCSI drives are very expensive on Ebay as well, so I'm not getting another one unless I happen to get one for free locally.

I got that same system case over here! I had planned to build mij 286 12mhz in it.