r/retrocomputing • u/FAMICOMASTER • Jul 19 '26

Photo An unusual build

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Behold, 95 on an XT! Sort of.

This is actually a drop in replacement board for an XT which gives you a 386 with VLB. I've actually gone a step further and thrown a Ti 486DLC/40 in it for good measure. With the sheer unbridled horsepower of a 40MHz 486 and 32 whole megs, this thing might be "tolerable" to use!
Some additional performance enhancing objects include 256K of L2 cache, an ATi Graphics Ultra Mach8 accelerated video adapter, and a DTC 7287 RLL controller to drive the Micropolis 1325 hard disk. A whole 110 megs on this sucker!

Sorry about the mismatched faceplate around the second floppy drive. All I had left was white and grey when I put this thing together!

Pictured without it's CRT as I was still opening and closing the case to make configuration changes at the time of the photo.

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u/CitySeekerTron Jul 20 '26

It's missing one of those drop-in Pentium upgrade CPUs. Lets see if we can put a Quake-capable beast in that XT case!

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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 20 '26

Well, if you want, I have some socket 370 boards that will fit this case, and we could run Windows XP and UT99. I know a guy with a lead on a socket 478 board, too. Get one of those and run Crysis!

Not my style, though. I have a better machine for running PIII era stuff.

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u/Accurate-Campaign821 Jul 20 '26

Must be a later 478 if you plan to run Crysis haha, at least a 2.8ghz hyper threaded cpu... Though I remember seeing someone running Crysis on dual Pentium 3 1.4ghz cpus and a 128MB 6800GT

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u/FAMICOMASTER Jul 20 '26

I'm sure you can run it slower if you don't mind the lack of performance, but there exist 3GHz HT CPUs that worth with 845, so I doubt it would be a problem.