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

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

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

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

Retro stuff, finally! yay!

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

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

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

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. :)

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

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

A welcome return to the old gear, Phil! 386 was a little before my time, so it's really great to learn about them.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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!

Loving your testing board Phil. Gold!

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

What a walk down memory lane! Nice video Phil.

We need more vids like these. These parts are iconic

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

Great vid, man!

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)

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

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

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.

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

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!

love the retro computing, more of them please!!

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.

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

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. :)

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!

Great video as always

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

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

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. :)

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!

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.

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.

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.

I was there, 3000 years ago...

Great vid as usual

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

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...

Awesome video, wish I had one of these

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I freaking love this video!

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 : )

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.

😱 omgawd! now thats a real throwback on the outback 😍 my first desktop that my parents gifted me was a 286 😇 i dont remember how it looked inside but i imagine it looks like a 386, but im not sure 🍭😊

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.

Great video. Simply love 4DS game

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.

Finally We have a retro video!

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 :)

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

Ms-Dos PC review, best stuff on your channel 🤩🤩

Nice demonstration of your knowledge of history at the start.

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

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.

Wow so much cool old shit here. I'm well jealous. Thanks for demoing this for us m8 :)

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

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

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.

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!

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

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 !

So this seems to be the third rise of AMD. I had forgotten about that 386 cpu. Great video thank you. 🙂👍👍

My first PC ever had an AMD 386DX-40 and it was a good performer.

Finally a real retro video again !!

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.

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.

My family had a machine with this processor (the ceramic one, socketed). This was our first Windows PC!

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.

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!

Very nice video! Thanks! You mentioned a 20 MHz 286. I own a 25 MHz cpu from Harris. That’s the fasted 286 ever made. I only miss a motherboard with a 50 MHz crystal. I soldered one on a 286 motherboard I own but the ISA was clocked to high. 😓

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

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

It's really interesting to see the design of PCIe type slots, which never changed much after so many years!

The 386DX40 was my first PC. I loved it...

Old school Phil, noice! Did you see the recent LGR retro build? Imagine a 386/486 era modern motherboard!

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.