AMD 386DX-40 - When AMD had the fastest processor

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[@MrHeem94]

"Remember when AMD had the fastest processor?" Yeah i do. Several times.

[@alexc8992]

Isn't that rn?

[@Mdudeman13]

Alex C Yep m.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

[@mememaster147]

I 'member when DEC had the fastest processor...

[@Microwave414]

@@alexc8992 They pretty much are. The only one caveat that intel BARELY edges out is gaming and I do mean barely and honestly the only way I think it would 'help' is making loading screens go faster which well I'm on a ryzen 2700x and I already don't notice loading screens already so I can't imagine the newer chipset's loading times.

[@TuskForce]

@@Microwave414 they (Intel) do but the power draw is huuge

[@cyancoyote7366]

"When AMD had the fastest processor" You mean now?

[@gremfive4246]

I dont think any of them hit 5+ GHz without LN2

[@JesusMeza3]

@@gremfive4246 I guess the FX-9590 is a beast then

[@sonic344ify]

Again idiot amd fanboys lol.Their new 3000 series which is already maxed out out of the box at 4.3 ghz is still slower than a mildly overclocked 4790k 4th gen proccesor lol.Gluing chiplets together with the infinity fabric allows you to add more cores but those cores are slow.An 8 core 3700x at its max 4.3 is still slower in most games compared to a 4 core 4790k at 4.7 ghz.Amd hasn't even caught up yet.The only rhing that ryzen has many cores.

[@sonic344ify]

@@JesusMeza3 The fx is an 8 core that scores 800 in cinebench r15 multicore at 5ghz while an i5 2500k with 4cores when overclocked scores 700.Lol.

[@sonic344ify]

@@jdgshsjchdjejkd545 Intel's 14nm++++($+#+ is still faster in gaming clock for clock compared to tsmc's 7nm.But the chip amd maxes out at 4.3 while intel goes up to 5.1 on air.

[@atecep]

Yes, I remember when AMD launched the R9 3900X... What a time...

[@konstantinliebich9427]

Even the Zen2 R7s are faster...

[@MyBestBuddiesForever]

@Brad Viviviyal ahh yess i also remember when intel making promises to go to 10nm and it never happens what a good time

[@matilija]

Ah, the good old days, when 1 MB of ram cost about $95 USD...………….takes me back.

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

Is that 95 old dollar or adjusted for inflation?

[@matilija]

@@UltimateAlgorithm Old dollars, adjusted for inflation it would be closer to 130-140 dollars today.

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

@@matilija wow that is very expensive. Most PC builders including me complained last year when RAM price is high. Knowing this makes you realize how expensive computers back then.

[@matilija]

@@UltimateAlgorithm Indeed, computers have actually become very cheap considering how far they have advanced over the years. Basically a computer that would have cost about 2k back in 1994 is outperformed by a $120 raspberry pi today...……...

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

@@matilija raspberry pi is below 100 usd. They are around 35 usd for the base model of 1 GB of RAM if I'm correct.

[@Felix-ve9hs]

AMD Athlon 64 - When AMD had the fastest processor *again*

[@rallyscoot]

Sure before that the AMD Thunderbird processors where also the fastest.. They where much faster then the Pentium III`s.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

I think the original K6-200 may have been the fastest for a few weeks, if you ignored the Pentium Pro, which was a workstation/server platform. The Pro was also arguably slower at 16-bit tasks than the regular Pentium. The Pentium II came out a month or so after the K6 and ended the performance comparison issue for two years until the original Athlon came along.

[@Reloaded2111]

Ryzen Zen 2 series processors - AMD *AGAIN* surpasses Intel in terms of both speed and core count.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 K6 didn't beat the MMX. Its FPU was just too slow.

[@wishusknight3009]

The AMD DX 40 came out after the intel 486 33, which blows it out of the water. AMD had the fastest 386, but by no means the fastest at the time.

[@fullmetaljacket7]

Retro stuff, finally! yay!

[@CristiBucerzan]

About fuckin time :p

[@MrSamadolfo]

😍👍

[@MrSamadolfo]

@@CristiBucerzan 😏 yup

[@deeloc5500]

oh yeee baby ! retro luv

[@GuybrushThriftweed]

Retro luv baby! My daily retro driver is the AMD 386DX-40 :) Back in the days, I had a 386dx-33 and had so much fun with it. Can't remember what sound card,gpu,....was in. Only the brand In remember. I have a soft spot for 386, that's why I have built this dx-40 with gotek, sd card,tseng et4000ax and a sb pro2. Nice review Phil,u tested almost every game I played!

[@alexpadillayt]

It's funny that AMD is now beating Intel today 🙌

[@woodiemarv]

@Bob Dole only in games everything else in gets a beat down.

[@Dr.WhetFarts]

@@woodiemarv nope, tons of applications run better on 9900k. stop looking at synthetics, like cinebench, please.

[@konstantinliebich9427]

@Bob Dole How come even the R7 3700X is beating the i9 9900k as soon as you start streaming the games.,..? Well the i9 can boost up to 4,9Ghz... which makes it the better Dual-Core. Once you use it as the 8Core 16Thread prozessor it is sold as both have an base clock of 3,6 Ghz and Zen 2 has the higher IPC.

[@konstantinliebich9427]

​@Bob Dole You don't seem to understand. The 350€ R7 3700X is more powerful than the i9 9900k. Doesn't have to be productivity or streaming... How about a modern game that utilises an 8 core properly? The i9 is the faster Dual-Core... maybe even Quad-Core ;)

[@botagasss]

@Bob Dole I would choose Ryzen any day. I may be a gamer, but I use my PC to produce stuff like videos, music and designs. I am not buying a CPU to overclock it. Neither is 9900k efficient. You know how much electricity costs? Get real dude, talk about the more important things

[@RandomlyDrumming]

I do remember - for example, my Ryzen 9 3900x kicks the sh*t out of pretty much anything Intel has to offer in the same or similar price range... :D In all seriousness, back in a day (90's), I had mostly AMD CPUs (K5, K6, K6-2, K7). I briefly switched to Intel during the Core2 era, but I'm back, supporting the Red Team. :)

[@RandomlyDrumming]

@@timothybilotta8090 And the best part of that story is - I still have most of the hardware I ever used in a working condition (Amstrad CPC 464, C64 and Amiga 500 are all well and running fine). Currently on my desk, right next to the machine I'm typing this on, is a 486DX4 @ 100Mhz and 16MB RAM (yeah, Intel, I know :D). In the next room, sitting by my wife's PC, is a Pentium II 266Mhz, 64MB RAM and Voodoo2 SLI) :) So yeah, I am retro :D

[@MrSamadolfo]

😊 i still mostly pu Core2 laptops & desktops to gift them to my family in latin america

[@TheLionAndTheLamb777]

I like them better when they were team Green. Now that's Nvidia I suppose.

[@howaboutsomesoyfood]

3 years later, I'm still team red. have always had AMD cpus except in a couple laptops

[@jerrywatson1958]

I was 33 years old back then. My personal computer at the time was the Commodore Amiga 500+ with 40MB scis HD. That year I bought a Amiga 2000 with a PC card (386). I upgraded that to a Motorola 68020 for the main cpu, I ran Apple, and MS DOS, all in windows on the Amiga workbench desktop. I swore at the time it was the future of home computing. No matter which environment you worked in you could do it on an Amiga. I loved Deluxe Paint and that NewTek capture card from back in the day. I did a lot of work on that baby back then. Love your work Phil, stay passionate about what you do. I for one will continue to support your choices in topics to cover. To me it's all good! Thanks again for all you do.

[@jeremygeorgia4943]

Overclocking was so easy, during the Socket 7 days. You just flipped a DIP switch & asked your 500Mhz K6III, if it could give you 50 more MHZ, and it complied. You didn't even need a cooling fan, but you could use one if you wanted to.

[@travisbeamon5356]

a 386 build is my ultimate nostalgia build. Thank you for the video!

[@obsoletegeek]

Hey, stranger!

[@edm3184]

Thanks for making me feel old.. haha had one of those at work..!

[@ytfanlingeric]

It is amazing that those components have been kept in such perfect conditions.

[@envoycdx]

Loved it. My first PC was a AMD 386 DX40 with 8meg of ram and a 120mb HDD back in 1995. Broke it, replaced the board with a SX25 and didn't half notice the difference. Spent months saving to afford a 486 DX33 setup after that and progressed from there. Always enjoy playing with older hardware even now.

[@pc-sound-legacy]

Hey Phill, i'm happy you still offer real old retro-stuff from time to time. You offer a good mix from previous-gen multicore budget builts to real old stuff like this. Thank you!

[@philscomputerlab]

Thanks, that means a lot!

[@hansoak3664]

The AMD 386DX-40... My absolute favorite board and CPU of all time. I miss mine. Thank you for the wonderful memories.

[@LutzHeidbrink]

The 386/40 was my first PC and of course I had all the games shown in the video. Stunts aka 4D Sports Driving was one of my favorite, same with 4D Sports Tennis. Coming from a C64 before that were insane real 3d graphics. ahh the good times.

[@futurepastnow]

Retro content videos are how I found your channel so they're what I visit to see. I find reviews of new stuff interesting, too, but everyone does those.

[@flecom5309]

used a 386DX-33 for many years, remember adding a creative labs multimedia kit, came with a sound blaster pro and a 1x caddy loading cd-rom drive, many great memories on that thing (still have most of it)... enjoy all your videos, even the newer xeon stuff (I am still rocking a 1366 xeon setup at home, and a dual 1366 workstation at work)

[@szpynda]

Ach, greate video! It was beautiful time. My first comp AMD486DX4/100MHz/4MB RAM and 40MB HDD. Wonderfull time.

[@Felix-ve9hs]

Today the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X has 8MB of L2 and 64MB of L3 Cache 😂 Imagine running DOS just off your L3 Cache ...

[@AndreiNeacsu]

@@Felix-ve9hs The Ryzen L3 cache is an exclusion cache, also called victim cache. Thus, it can never work as RAM. You could, in principle, do this with an FX 8xxx CPU that had an L2+L3 config. of 8+8 MB; however, the motherbord and BIOS need to feature 8 MB of RAM too and be especially configured for this purpose. While this second option is possible in principle, it is unrealistic.

[@fullmetaljacket7]

@@Felix-ve9hs dos? I was running windows 95 with 8 megs of ram back in the day lol

[@michaeleriksson644]

Really nice to see. Mine was fully kitted with 8MB RAM and additional CO-processor.

[@devblognet]

I love such retro videos! I finally built a 486 after searching months for working parts and an authentic case.

[@CiroAMD]

You have one of the best hardware channels! I love you retro videos, I can't wait to see a Season 3 of AMD vs intel! Greetings from Brazil!

[@CMOS4081]

I miss my AMD K6-2 and K6-3. I remember the AMD i386 being used in different networking gear we had at work.

[@keenhauberk]

No, i had an AMD K6-II 400 MHz, that was crap. After that i had an AMD Thunderbird C 1000 MHz, that was really amazing at this time. This was the fastest processor on market. Intel had as fastest model a 866 MHz Pentium III in the same time.

[@Jwalker76]

This brings back memories. My grand father had a 286 back in the day and we eventually got a 386 sx 16mhz computer from my uncle who had just upgraded to a 486. My brother started working as a computer tech in the 90s and got hold of a cheap amd 586. I had alot of the games you showed in this video and it makes me want to play them again. Hmm may have to look into a retro gaming system. :)

[@philscomputerlab]

It's a fun hobby, but gets addictive :D

[@mattyclad9185]

A processor that didn't need cooling? What kind of witchcraft is this? 😱😵

[@carsonGoodwin16]

A lot of processors don’t need active cooling

[@bdhale34]

@@carsonGoodwin16 I can run my Athlon II x4 635 overclocked to 3.85GHz passively not even anything exotic heatsink wise Zalman CNPS5X Performa tower cooler runs at about 60c max with the fan unplugged (56 with the fan and shroud removed) and around 45 with the fan running.

[@warrax111]

passive cooler is already cooling.

[@warrax111]

raspberry pi also don't need cooling, and it outperform 386 :)

[@realRichHunting]

Wow... this brings back memories from when I was a kid. My first PC was a Tandy 386sx with 4MB of RAM, 85MB HDD, 4bit color video, and a 14.4k modem. I built it when I was 12 years old so I could get on AOL 2.0. lol Crazy how much has changed in 25 years.

[@briangleeson1528]

What a great video! My first PC was a 386sx-40 with 4MB of RAM. I remember playing Doom shareware and Wolfenstein. We upgraded that machine with a sound card and 4x CD-ROM. I am currently working on building a 386dx-40. I am jealous of your motherboard, good affordable ones are hard to find. I would be interested in seeing a math co-processor video or a 486 comparison would be cool. Keep up the good work, Phil.

[@UpLateGeek]

We had an Intel 386DX-33 clone when I was growing up. Definitely played a lot of Wolfenstein and that stunt game back in the day, not to mention Monkey Island 2. We got a "multimedia" upgrade package that included an AdLib card and a CD-ROM drive that used a proprietary interface with two ribbon cables to the sound card. The AdLib card was relatively easy to use, since a lot of games supported it without drivers, but the CD drive took ages to figure out how to get it working! Now I've got a collection of vintage machines, I'm really missing that old 386. It's a massive gap in my collection, so I'm really sad we didn't keep it around. On the other hand, my parents are packing up to move house, so you never know what they might find in the loft. Great video as always, always love the retro stuff!

[@TheBigupz]

watchin almost 30 year old machines, in 4k 60fps, what a time to be a live, i was still to young to understand machines like this, so i love watching this videos

[@AndrewTubbiolo]

I loved this processor. I rant a Linux machine for email and web service for years. A AMD 386 DX 40 and a Weitek match co-pro and 8 meg ram make this a Sun class work station. I even ran Openlook as the window manager. It ran like a Sun Sparc 5. This processor and the AMD 5x86 DX 133 (overclocked to 140) were my favorite PC processors of the era. Fun days.

[@mbe102]

Lower Framerate Doom makes it feel like Doom 3, where as high frame rate makes it feel like Doom 2016

[@MrTomas7777]

Ironically, Doom 3 is older (graphically less demanding) so it runs at an higher framerate than Doom 2016

[@ThePsychoticWombat]

@@MrTomas7777 Doom 3 does have a 60FPS cap though

[@fungo6631]

@Shrug More like an ATI tech demo. When it wa first unveiled it ran on a Radeon 9700.

[@robervaldo4633]

My first x86 was an AMD 386DX40, I remember paying about U$40 per megabyte of RAM for adding 4Mb extra (8Mb total), and also about U$40 for a 487DLC, my motherboard wasn't as good as this one, though. At the time it was fun, but I don't miss a lot of those times. So much time figuring things out and configuring and working around problems... the HDs of the time didn't even come with readahead enabled, after enabling that you'd get a big performance boost from the HD, but such information was nowhere, you had to fiddle endlessly to learn it... configuring IRQs and IO addresses, resolving hardware conflicts, freeing high/extended memory, failing floppy disks, etc., etc. everything set up by hand and case by case... a lot of time spent fiddling just to run a piece of software... Up until last year I actually even had the board, a Soundblaster Pro 2, a few videoboards, some modems, collecting dust, but finally took them to an electronics recycling/disposal center. 🙂 Anyway, I'm glad there are people like you who got the space and will to store all this parts in good condition, put it together and record such a nice video and publish computer history for everyone. Great work! Thanks!

[@dervsoh2468]

OMG, just this was my first self built PC in 1995 :) 386DX-40 from AMD, 4 MB RAM, no math copro, 120 MB HDD, and even a 2x CD-ROM drive. No idea what video card, but i had a beast of sound card: a gravis ultrasound max. Playing DOS-Games was pure fun.

[@frshunter]

I had one of these upgrading from a 286 and really brought back the memories. Those games especially Lemmings and Stunt Driver I forgot all about!

[@barbunicolae2711]

Amazing retro video! Thank you very much! Keep doing what you love!

[@raulrrodriguez7552]

I first learned computing on a 386, it was a lot of fun back then. So many software and hardware options to try out. Kind of like the wild, wild west : )

[@saintuk70]

Great video, right at the cusp I was moving from Amiga to PC back in the day.

[@michaelturpen5159]

The Am386DX-40/Cx387DX-40 combo holds so much nostalgia for me. That 286-to-386 leap was amazing; it seems like it is the most important development in x86 computing to date.

[@sebretrocave4588]

Hi Phil, your retro videos are the best, i think also you have a perfect voice even for singing :)

[@erazorCTF]

I had an AMD 368-DX 40, exactly the model you showed here, the ceramic one. And I even also had a Tseng ET4000 running with it. The soundcard was an Adlib-Card though, so only music. Effects came from the internal speaker of the PC.

[@ceejay2k2]

Great video! My first PC was powered by the 386-DX40 which I got back in late 93. I remember it wasn't great for gaming, about 1½ year later it got upgraded with a new motherboard and a 486-DX4-100, that thing was a beast compared to the 386 lol and gaming actually turned into a good experience.

[@2007tantrum]

Happy to see retro video on this channel. Watched it all. Like

[@EternalxFrost]

I miss my old 386... the same exact CPU (DXL-40) and a pretty similar motherboard, came in with 4 MB of RAM, that I upgraded later to 32 MB, for fun.. Been given to me back then by a computer teacher, back in high school. It had everything to it: keyboard, mouse, joystick, printer, CRT monitor, a fuckton of 5.25 and 3.5 inches disks filled of games and progs. Had a Seagate 130.7 MB in it, with a 2 MB video card and an Adlib sound card, with the knob in the I/O panel of the card. Had DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.10 (single-user) installed, with already loads of stuff installed, like Automenu, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, Reflex, etc. Good ole' times

[@kami4542]

Nice 386 video !! Even though prices are out of control now it's really cool to see you talking about it again :D (especially for those who can't afford this stuff like me xD)

[@ugzz]

YES! Another Phils on old hardware, and a gem at that! Man i could watch this stuff all day, i started on a B&W mac, moved to a 16mhz Apple (i think IIc or something), then switched to PC with a 33mhz Pentium, stuck with pentium for a dx66, but then switch to AMD around the 100mhz barrier and rocked that up until a cyrix 300, but i had to get back on the AMD train in the ~500mhz range for that 3DNOW Tech! lol

[@dougjohnson4266]

I had a ZEOS 386SX and it worked well. Thanks for your web site and this video.

[@bleachwolf6936]

We need more vids like these. These parts are iconic

[@3800S1]

I have fond memories of this era AMD CPUs. I just started high school and got into building PCs. I used to scrounge for old hardware from the local computer stores and my school. The AMD stuff was really rare in my area and one store chucked a whole skip bin full of boards with CPUs still in them. It was like gold finding the only AMD cpu out of the 100s of intel stuff which all were 386 and 486s. I found an AMD 586 133 that worked in 486 boards.

[@dangoldbach6570]

Digging the turbo 3800 logo

[@3800S1]

@@dangoldbach6570 Thanks! I love a good buick 6.

[@Nine-Signs]

My secondary school (1993 to 1998) had a computer repair store across the street from it, they kept a skip out front. I was a very happy child. My mother not so much given the boxes of "junk" I would come home with :) So much of it I should have kept but you never think to do so at the time.

[@RCjesus.David.2581]

You get me with Retro stuff like this. 10year old or newer just doesn't get me when i'm not in computer mood, like it is in Summer. You do it right if you say you do what you want to do!

[@LordAlacorn]

Good to see real Phil is back, I hope you took care of that imposter. ;)

[@classic_jam]

Yes! Retro! Love the new content as well, but so many other channels have similar stuff so it's nice to see the retro again!

[@ivanlinka8779]

Hi Phil, is seems this board has EISA slot on it. Have you ever thought of benchmark / comparison with EISA graphics? I have Compaq AVGA and Elsa Winner 1000, but never seen 386 board with EISA slots. How about some video on that neglected topic?

[@jasejj]

My first PC clone was built around a DX40... I used it because it gave 486-like performance at a much lower price. I never felt short-changed by it as a Computer Science student in the early 1990s, eventually replacing it with an SGS 486DX2-80 when the price of those processors fell through the floor and it made sense to upgrade as a poor student :)

[@billthecat2410]

This sure brings back memories. I was seeing the end of my Atari 520ST and the AMD 40 was my first X86 build. I also got a TSENG video card. Those where a really kick ass video card of the time. I paired it up with a 3DFX daughter card so I got pretty good game speeds. For the games that used it that is. I guess I preferred AMD cpus because I stuck with them for a long long time. Heck, they were cheaper and faster in some builds. Back then you really had to have a hands on approach setting computers up. Finding IRQ's for all the add on cards and it could get pretty tricky if you added a lot and then there are the jumpers... Oh boy the jumpers... Fun days.. These days windows does it all for you, takes some of the fun out of it.

[@rhyzon]

I was there, 3000 years ago...

[@xDownSetx]

And now we're there and back again

[@slashtiger1]

I LOVE the memory test sound on this BIOS. Back in the 80386 era, I had a computer with a strikingly similar BIOS which also had the same sound during the memory test. And when I maxed the memory out, I remember it going on forever and thinking: oh wow, now I do have an absolute tonne of memory...! And this type of BIOS must have been popular, because at a certain point in time I had to have the mainboard replaced. The computer's supplier went ahead and upgraded me to a 80486DX(!) at no additional charge (i.e. just the factored cost of repair, but the plan was to just replace the mainboard like-for-like). And that mainboard _also_ had this kind of BIOS, just with a feature set tailored to the 80486. I can remember being totally blown away by the MASSIVE speed difference from an 80386SX to an 80486DX. The former also ran at 33MHz, whereas the latter ran at 66MHz (I believe), which I did eventually upgrade to 100MHz.

[@lemontangs]

Loving your testing board Phil. Gold!

[@danielberrett2179]

Great Video again. Thank you. I enjoy both retro and modern (all) of your videos!

[@melvinrobinson4700]

I went from an Intel 386SX-20 MHz no cache my 1st motherboard. Next one was AMD Am486DX-120MHz clock tripled 40MHz bus. I loved how AMD kept extending CPU performance when Intel would jump to another architecture altogether. Nowadays, I am building a PC from scratch using the fastest 80286 known to exist: A 25MHz Harris Semiconductor 80286.

[@freefalcon23]

Oh hey, glad to see some more retro videos after the modern ones. Keep up the great work!

[@MarkHyde]

Really love this return to the retro format. Great video.

[@TrevorLentz]

Love your channel Phil. I have been watching your videos regularly for a while. Even though I subscribe to way too many tech channels, I have to press that sub button. :)

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

My first computer was very similar to this build, with an AMD 386DX-40 and 4MB RAM. I later installed a Sound Blaster card, CD-ROM drive, and modem myself when I was maybe 12 or 13. Also upgraded the CPU to a Cyrix 486DLC for a marginal speed improvement. Learned a lot back in those days.

[@cookieboy5300]

I remember these and the history, thanks as always for the walk down memory lane :)

[@datasoftinc]

Great vid, man!

[@BoomBox02]

Good to see some retro content. I was surprised to see that the way you overclock the cpu on this board is the same as you would overclock many Amiga CPU expansion boards. My Apollo 040 card that is in my Amiga 1200 came standard at 25Mhz. I replaced the 50Mhz crystal and put in an 80Mhz one and have ran the cpu at 40Mhz since the late 90's.

[@barowt]

Makes me happy they're back on top with the new Ryzen stuff, proud to be a shareholder!

[@Viking8888]

What a walk down memory lane! Nice video Phil.

[@johnspeaks7841]

love the retro computing, more of them please!!

[@DKJones96]

First PC was a 386SX-25 with 2MB of ram. Simpler times then. I have an AMD 386SX-33 and an AMD DX-40 motherboard sitting at home waiting for me to find a case or something to use them. Even have a 486DLC upgrade for the DX!

[@emperorSbraz]

you can properly do the corkscrew in stunt.exe you have my respect. :D

[@spearPYN]

386 is one of the best CPUs ever, wildly popular in the early 90s. I keep one alongside Pentium 133 and K6 166 for more mid-90s games. Linux was first born on 386!

[@dallesamllhals9161]

BUT INTEL™ or AMD™?

[@deano023]

Back in the day I had an Amstrad 386 with an AMD sx25 processor and 4mb of RAM. It was a tiny little thing with a 40mb HDD. I have many fond memories of that which was my first PC compatible. I remember the old amstrad VGA monitor which handled resolutions up to 800 by 600 and had a very sharp picture for the time. Of course the computer at that resolution could only display 16 colours but it was still pretty impressive. My friend had an old 486 motherboard which we desoldered 4 of the 30 pin SIMM slots and soldered them onto the amstrad motherboard, which only had 4 slots populated and this was obviously done as a cost-cutting measure. Once the extra slots were installed I installed an additional 4mb old memory. You can imagine the look on my parents face when they came home to find the computer that they had bought 8 months before and was still paying off on finance in pieces on my bedroom floor with me and my friend taking a soldering iron to it! At the same time was when I installed an original Sound Blaster. Prior to that I was just using the PC beeper and a parallel port DAC to play some of the old MOD files which I got from my friend who owned an Amiga. I still remember how amazed I was and how good it sounded. Much great nostalgia from those days..

[@DigitalViscosity]

Great accent, I hear german mixed with Aussie very interesting to listen to and great subject matter well explained

[@philscomputerlab]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@SudosFTW]

how interesting timing this is, I just bought a TI 486-50 386 CPU for 7 bucks off eBay. gonna solder it into a Fedex Powership 2 machine made by NEC for FedEx in 92.

[@conyo985]

This is like an LGR episode! It's so retro!

[@matthewplehn4271]

LOL...went for the 386 video!...Wonderful presentation as always. That board looks really interesting, being able to run a 486 AND a 386..was that also the era for EDO RAM?...you always tempt me to build such a computer when i see these videos..if i did id want a board like that! On another note...when did Boards start integrating the VLB?...what was VLB for?

[@philscomputerlab]

VLB is really for the 486, although exotic 386 implementations exist.

[@superpeca]

I had this processor! Together with my first VGA color screen, this was my first gaming rig :) ...and a Sound Blaster card for full audio visual experience !

[@mauricevde]

Love your working machine phill , awesome !, I have a partly working am386dx40 + math co proc but the bord needs resolder on the memory slots, some pins and plastic broke off.

[@phanominon]

My first PC I purchased was a 386 DX40. I had several Trident video cards, sound blaster cards etc. A 256MB WD hard drive. So on. I loved doom though it didn't run well I played it anyways. I still love the 386/486 hardware and still build systems of that era.

[@billthecat2410]

In a way it's sad that The Sound Blaster folks didn't see the writing on the wall and sell their chips to the motherboard folks. They could have and we would have sound blaster still instead of Realtet chips. It kind of did a number on Creative Labs. Back then Sound Blaster was great because all the games used their drivers. Use MS Dos huh? I used another called DR Dos. We always called it Doctor Dos.. hehe ....

[@BaumInventions]

I have some 90s notebooks with real Creative soundchips inside... So they actually tried ... I guess the clones were just cheaper to get.

[@白正賢]

That was my second CPU!

[@deeloc5500]

It was my first cpu :D

[@JT-ko2ib]

Great upgrade from the aging Nehalem.

[@francescomengoli6994]

There's some gourgeous pixel art in some of those games

[@johnnyxp64]

damn that bios Post sound... Holly crap... you took my back to my 10ylos little me or so... damn.

[@pierregrobbelaar9116]

Back in 1987/88 but dads company upgraded and he got me loads off pc's.There was one that i built up(my first pc ever built)It had 2x386sx 33mhz i added a rizer card for memory.Installed it with 32mb although it could only read 24mb it ran with my friends 486dx2.Man i miss those days where it was still fun to build a pc.Now everything is so simple.It's hard to mess up a build :D

[@joannaatkins822]

I have no idea if it was intel or AMD, but I used to have a 386 desktop when I was eight (23 years ago or perhaps slightly later, maybe two years). Indiana jones, lemmings, and monkey island were the best games! I just had a full on flashback from the sequence you filmed!

[@GodOfGamingBG]

You might be forgetting something, its true that Intel 386 was not going up to 40mhz, but when the AMD 386DX-40 came out, Intel already had 486DX-33 and maybe even 486DX-50 out, so the AMD may have been the fastest 386, but it certainly wasnt the fastest processor available, I think that didn't happen till Athlon 1000

[@munxcorp]

It was the fastest x86 that people could actually afford tho :)

[@dadgamer6717]

Wow just like my amiga!

[@TheLassenman]

I had the amd 386, 486 and 586 back in the days. Worked like an charm back then

[@0525ohhwell]

Yeah man, the first computer our family had was a 386sx33 back in the early 90s. I saved up my allowance for months to get a soundblaster pro. All I could do was dream about an MT-32 so the OPL2 drives my nostalgia like crazy.

[@jasongooden917]

That's some real old school overclocking. Swapping the crystal on the motherboard...wow.

[@rallyscoot]

Thats no overclocking, thats setting the cpu speed right.

[@PhxVigo]

This was the first computer that I actually owned! My mom bought it for me when I was in high school... AMD 386DX-40 with 4MB RAM, 85MB HDD, and a Trident 8900C 1MB video card. Later added a Soundblaster Pro. Even after I upgraded to an Intel 486DX4-120, the case, floppy drives, and the 14" CTX monitor were around for a long time...

[@retrogeek4372]

Me too. I was too young to remember the actual specs, but I know it was based on a 40MHz 386 and it didn't have a sound card. I'm recently considering to rebuild a 386 system, though I only have spare parts for 486 at the moment. We have a complete 386 with I think a Cirrus Logic graphics card at work we don't use anymore. Only if we'd decide to finally scrap it so I could take it home...

[@agevenisse3252]

Great video as always. AMD 386 DX-40 was my first CPU. I still have the motherboard (CPU soldered on), but it's probably broken (battery leak). Played most of the games in your video, and later, even Command & Conquer and Red Alert in DOS mode. It worked, but a bit slow. Replaced it with a Cyrix DX/2 66MHz, and was amazed by the difference in Doom, but then Quake came out...

[@craigkarsten6719]

I had a Intel 386 DX33 setup back around '92 which was the first computer I put to together. I went out and bought a Tseng Labs ET4000 a bit later not just for the speed but for the extra graphical features the drivers enabled for Microsoft Flight Simulator 4. You got a higher resolution and a 747 glass cockpit.

[@MrBreadoflife]

My first IBM Comp. PC had this processor!! ;)

[@efaniel]

awesome Video Phil! i had the 386DX40 from AMD as a Kid and i remember playing Doom smoothly on it, but it needed 8MB of RAM, it was crazy how much of a performance bump that was. If you have 8 MB of RAM you should give it a try and wonder :D

[@Tylonfoxx]

We went from a 286 clone PC to a used 486 IBM PS/2 - so we never had a 386 machine in my family :) Probably my biggest regret as a computer owner was letting go of the PS/2 and a PS/1 that I found in a trash pick - lost out on a lot of good times and a good investment there... That and the OKI 486 machine that my grandma had for many years - man, did I play a lot of Tyrian and Jazz Jackrabbit on that thing - luckily I still have the AWE32 from that machine :) I do love that motherboard with the interchangeable clock crystal, though - I didn't know they existed. It really adds some charm to overclocking :)

[@Maxxarcade]

That chip was one of my introductions to AMD back in the day. They also had a 286 running at 20 Mhz, which may have been an overclocked 16Mhz part. I used one for several years that was a scrapped board from my school.

[@j7m7f]

That was my first PC. More than 30 years ago... It was great back then. Few years later I got AMD 586-133. Then I switched for some Intel but I was back to AMD again later. I remember there was a very good Duron that could be overclocked a lot with a pencil... There were chips a bit more green and other more violet. A guy in a computer store let me choose the most violet out of 4 :) Wonderfull years :)

[@camouflage81]

Is there any solution to have several Crystals and have a switch on the computer case to quickly vary among them? Is there even Crystals that have variable speed?