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- From: debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 386/486 clock (1x or 2x)?
- Message-ID: <3713@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 07:34:59 GMT
- References: <RFowler.288@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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- In article <RFowler.288@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler) writes:
- >In comp.ibm.pc.hardware there is a thread about weather the 486DX uses a 1x
- >or a 2x clock. I (perhaps mistakenly) said it used a 2x clock, (all of the
- >motherbords I've seen had a 2x occilator) could some one with a real data
- >book clarify?
-
- The 386 uses a 2x clock, whereas the 486 uses a 1x clock.
- A 2x clock has the advantage of delivering a perfectly symmetrical
- 1x clock after halving. A 1x clock needs better clock circuitry to
- make sure it is symmetrical.
-
- A 2x clock makes it difficult to drive a 50Mhz cpu (using 100Mhz oscillator)
- without interference with the FM radio frequencies. (Maybe that's why
- nobody sells 50Mhz 386's)
-
- I can tell you from experience that listening to a distant radio station
- at frequency 99.9Mhz is difficult when parked in the lot in front of a
- major PC vendor's development lab. And they are not even using
- 100Mhz oscillators (but the 25 and 50Mhz ones have overtones).
-
- Paul.
-