Phido wrote:Oh, I'm pretty much a newbie when it comes to this retro computing thing.
Yeah, it shows 🤣
Phido wrote:Case: Awyun 202 mini-ATX in black, but I don't think this has a turbo button.. I've already ordered this. I hope it fits. I see someone on youtube called Phil tried to fit a motherboard into an ATX Aywun and had some problems.
I'm not sure if a mATX case would be ok. There are some pretty small footprint late 386 boards around but in any case, be prepared to hacking, sawing and drilling. And forget about the turbo switch. You will not find any ATX cases, let alone a modern one, with one already installed on it. You need to add one to your case, with of course more modding, if you really want a turbo switch.
Phido wrote:PSU:It comes with an ATX PSU. Will that power my setup?
No, not directly. You need to purchase an ATX to AT power converter adapter.
Phido wrote:CPU: AMD/Intel 386DX, Cx486DLC, I think a Cx486DR2X would be rad to have as well.
You need to check if your motherboard supoport these CPUs first.
Phido wrote:Motherboard: It says 386 Peak DM/33. I think it only has 64kb, that seems small, I want more. How do I make this 40Mhz or 50Mhz?
By "64 KB" I believe you mean the amount of onboard cache memory. 64 KB was the norm. There are some boards around supporting 128KB though. And a 50MHz 386 board? I don't know if it ever existed.
Phido wrote:FPU: Intel 387, IIT 487 and Cyrix FasMath 3c87. I can't decide. Maybe a Weitek. I think 3DStudio 2.0 can use them. Which is the fastest?
Cyrix Fastmath was the fastest, if I remember correctly. If you go for a 40MHz CPU, there will be no Intel option, they never produced a 40MHz FPU as far as I know. Most 386 boards have a common socket for FPU or a Weitek, so you cannot install both. Weitek was a very specific "FPU" so it's support was quite limited when compared to a "normal FPU", which was not a big thing to start with.
Phido wrote:Main Storage: IDE2SD with 32GB SD card class 10 85Mb/s. It was the only sd card at the stationary shop. Does dos support 32Gb in one partition??
No, normal MS-DOS (6.22 and below) cannot support (under normal conditions) any partition larger than 2GB, and no more than 8GB as the total size of any number of partitions on a single disk. So, basically, you are limited to a 8GB HDD max. You might prefer to install DOS 7.1 that came with Windows 98 though, which supports FAT32. By the way, you also need to by pass the BIOS limitation of 528MB HDD size (concerns almost all 386 boards) by using a DDO sofware.
Phido wrote:Removable storage: Black 3.5" and Black 5.25" Floppy, Gotek Floppy emulator with USB port.?
You can only connect two of these three at the same time, under normal conditions.
Phido wrote:IO: Super I/O card, 2 comports, IDE, Paralell port ISA. It has lots of pins.
You might try to find an EIDE one with its own BIOS, which would help you solve your BIOS related HDD size limit problems.
Phido wrote:Keyboard: Wyse PS/2. I bought it brand new off ebay. It has a windows key and is black. I guess I can use a PS/2 to at converter?
Mouse: A4 fast mouse. Brand new. But its beige. I think I want to change the colour of the mouse and the cable. I want everything black.
Keyboard will almost surely work with a PS/2 to DIN adapter. Try to find a black serial mouse (they exist). Or you need to follow some special adapters designed and built by Vogon users. They are not perfect but they work in many cases. I suggest to go for a serial Mouse though.
Phido wrote:Wifi: I think I can get a thing that plugs into a usb port to give Wifi.
Which USB port? This is an ISA only 386 for gods sake 🤣. Suppose your board grow out an USB port magically, what driver software for which OS you really will be able to find? You can purchase a wifi bridge with Ethernet ports though.
In conclusion, you need to be aware of the fact that 386 is ancient tech. Literally. Almost nothing about putting together an 386 computer is related to the contemporary methods for building a modern computer today. You need to be dealing with jumper setups, resource conflicts (which you msut be resolving manually since there is no PNP, no PCI, no Windows 9x or up, etc.), driver availability, tired and fragile components, HDD size limits, primitive BIOS'es, ....
Probaby you need to do some home work first, by reading treads about similar builds in here and elsewhere.
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000