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From: bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HOME BREWED PC
Keywords: 386 486
Message-ID: <167@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 90 20:13:14 GMT
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Reply-To: bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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>I'm thinking of rolling my own 33Mhz 386 or 486 box. Where can a
>person get honest motherboard performance ratings? Is there anyone who
>could share any experiences with home building PCs.

My dad and I put a 20 Mhz Jameco 386 motherboard into an XT clone box.  The
165 watt XT power supply works as did all of the old cards, except the 
hard disk controller.  We had a noname serial/parallel port car, an ATI EGA
Wonder, and an Omnitel internal 2400 baud modem.  All work fine.  We put in
a Western Digital 10006 VSR2(1:1 interleave RLL hard/floppy controller).  Jameco
just released a 33 Mhz 386 board with a 32K static cache for $1200 with 0K 
memory.  I highly recommned the WD controller also.  I would buy as many parts
as possible from the same place. Jameco has good prices on power supplies,
motherboards, and the serial/parallel cards.  Memory, video card, monitors,
and hard disks can be found elsewhere for much better prices.
                                       Brent H. Besler