nice performance, that little thing really impresses in DOS. Hope to see those cases kits sale if it's not too much, I think you might be onto a trend and it would be a crime given the monumental work that went into it. That being said, wouldn't blame you for being done too with that. 😅
Since you can’t use anything faster than ISA on the external bus due to the small form factor, I think the only way to improve significantly the performance of this build would be to replace the SBC with a variant that has onboard video. Also that’d free one of the 4 slots and some of the limited space. You can see such SBC on LGR channel. He had pretty good benchmark results with it.
Man. This was my first computer way back in the day. A 486, Windows 95/98, MSDOS terminals and DOOM were my childhood. God. I miss those days. Computers nowadays are laughably easy to use in comparison to what we had back then (yet they have way more annoying problems than their predecessors. Go figure).
It underperforms due to the ISA graphics. The transfer speed via ISA bus is a major bottleneck for running games released after about '92 or so. It would probably do okay with less graphically intensive games, but Doom wasn't a light game at the time. Such a fun little build though :)
@@SuperGourmetguy with "play" you meant 14.1FPS on a very very late DX4 100 @120MHz on a super fast motherboard using a very fast 40MHz VLB video card? Search for 486quakerace, maybe you are viewing your memories through rose tinted glasses?
Check out the original video if you haven't yet: ua-cam.com/video/vkuYGle9L20/v-deo.html
it's interesting how huge the keyboard looks in relation to the tiny pc and monitor 👍
That sound blaster speaker is so cool, I had one of this years ago, so nostalgic
Came to say the same thing - that Sound Blaster speaker set is one that so many of us remember, I was feeling the nostalgia vibes coming them too!
Love it! I wish I had the skill to build a retro pc to ring games of that time period.
I knew a 486 had the power to run Doom
BITD I ran it on a 386. Not well but it ran. At lowest settings and with a slightly reduced screen size
@@CovenantAgentLazarus😂
The gaming struggles we had back then were real.
nice performance, that little thing really impresses in DOS. Hope to see those cases kits sale if it's not too much, I think you might be onto a trend and it would be a crime given the monumental work that went into it. That being said, wouldn't blame you for being done too with that. 😅
Since you can’t use anything faster than ISA on the external bus due to the small form factor, I think the only way to improve significantly the performance of this build would be to replace the SBC with a variant that has onboard video. Also that’d free one of the 4 slots and some of the limited space.
You can see such SBC on LGR channel. He had pretty good benchmark results with it.
Yeah, I wanted one of those but they are a bit expensive now =(
nice build bro
Love it mate!!!! The more I see this rig, the more I love it to bits. Great job! I'd have killed for that kind of framerate in Doom back in the day.
More astoundings from computer capn!
Man. This was my first computer way back in the day. A 486, Windows 95/98, MSDOS terminals and DOOM were my childhood.
God. I miss those days.
Computers nowadays are laughably easy to use in comparison to what we had back then (yet they have way more annoying problems than their predecessors. Go figure).
Oh my god I want that baby CRT monitor.
Not a CRT, check the previous video
@@matthewday7565 :O
Oh wow, this build is cool!
You need some tiny Soundblaster speakers to go with it.
Origin Systems had some of the most demanding games for that period: try System Shock, BioForge or Wing Commander III.
You can get a bit more jucie out of it, by using the FastDoom source port.
I know this DX4 seems to be underperforming, but damn, it better be at least as fast as the famous DX2 66... Did I miss the benchmark numbers? 🤔
It underperforms due to the ISA graphics. The transfer speed via ISA bus is a major bottleneck for running games released after about '92 or so. It would probably do okay with less graphically intensive games, but Doom wasn't a light game at the time. Such a fun little build though :)
I reckon it could play Quake
I don't know about that
@@TheEricExperiment I've seen other DX4 100s playing Quake. Although they didn't have the unique motherboard of yours
@@SuperGourmetguy with "play" you meant 14.1FPS on a very very late DX4 100 @120MHz on a super fast motherboard using a very fast 40MHz VLB video card?
Search for 486quakerace, maybe you are viewing your memories through rose tinted glasses?
Not well, remember how Quake leverages a real Pentium FPU and isn't even that good on some Pentium equivalents, maybe with a PODP?
@@RetroTinkerer haha I think you're probably right. I remember it playing but probably 15fps was correct
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