Perfect PC?

Is perfect pc a computer building company or brand from a company either not around or still in existence?
google failed me and ebay had no results.
nothing else written on the case
absolutely nothing on the MB but manufacture date 11/1996 and SN 0410848
It looks familiar... just can't remember.
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Thanks for looking

it looks like any number of 100's or 1000's of PC builders in the late 90's. I didn't see anything in my search for them, so they are not a boutique builder...and from the looks of the case...they just put their sticker on the front (like toms of other builders that used that same generic case).

I have been wrong before, BUT I pretty confident this is just a local PC builder wherever this was originally purchased.

The motherboard looks like it has a VIA chipset on the left side of the picture...that could narrow it down a bit too. From what I remember, there was NOT a ton of motherboard manufacturers around at that time.

It looks like a local shop to me, too. Back then, even though Dell and Gateway 2000 (Yes, they were called that) had good sales, a lot of PCs were custom rigs. I don't see anything too special on it, but I can't nail down that CPU socket. I know I've seen it, but it looks too small to be a Socket 7.

Slot Processor

Pretty sure this is an on-board cpu under that green heatsink. Plastic 486 most likely.

I forgot they went back that far. It must have been a nice machine in its day.\

After all, it is the Perfect PC!

Originally Posted by ryanw

Pretty sure this is an on-board cpu under that green heatsink. Plastic 486 most likely.

correct

still digging around for the MB manufacturer..you guys have me getting a lot closer though..at least I'm in the right ballpark now

No-See Um processor.
Very popular in the day.........

I need to listen to my gut more.

If you can find out who made that on-board CPU, that may help. Some of the smaller vendors, like Cyrix, didn't partner with many places.

I'm no expert but from digging it looks like a PC Chips M919
there is a fake cache on these boards and a lot of griping about pc chips being crooked and adding fake parts and not even coming close to being able to run claimed system specs.



one excerpt
It's a PC-Chips M919, and that cache is quite fake. (The traces go nowhere!) This board was released in several revisions taking various configurations of 30 and 72-pin RAM and they are all equal in quality. They claim to support 50MHz bus speeds but are really hopeless above 33MHz (mine won't run for more than ~15 seconds at 40MHz, nor at all at 50). The cache slot is not a COAST at all - it really takes a special asynchronous module (something like DIPPs on a stick) rather than the pipeline burst cache the Pentium boards took. I am currently using the board with a 5x86/100 to play old DOS games and watch demos. Even under pure DOS, the M919 is prone to EMS errors and random lockups. PC Chips strikes again.

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Before a kind reader sent us some more information, this board was unidentified. At the time we wrote: "Notice that this board is devoid of anything that might identify the manufacturer, but it somehow looks familiar. Six to one it was those champions of the crooked, PC Chips. Again."

I just scrapped a similar unit. It had an 8088 processor in it. It would have fit in one of those empty chip sockets. The board I pulled had an empty slot next to the 8088 that would have housed an 8087 math co-processor. That math co-processor was an option back in the day.

That unit had a 5 1/4 floppy drive in it as well. I have it all set aside.

I haven't worked with their vintage stuff, but I attempted a build with an LGA775 PC Chips motherboard. It was certainly a unique board. I believe they merged with ECS, but I can't say for certain.

Anything that old is still cool. There's actually a little bit of a market for Packard Bell computers- and we all know how good they were!