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- From: davidr@davidr.mentorg.com (David Ransier)
- Subject: Re: 486DX 33 & 486DX2 "50"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.191513.10714@news.mentorg.com>
- Sender: davidr@davidr (David Ransier)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:15:13 GMT
- References: <1992Oct20.120625.2937@animal.inescn.pt> <1992Oct21.220040.22080@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Oct21.220040.22080@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- |> In <1992Oct20.120625.2937@animal.inescn.pt> jml@bruna.inescn.pt (Joao Miguel Leitao) writes:
- |>
- |> >Hi there,
- |>
- |> >I'll buy a 486 computer next days. I can buy at near the same price a 486DX 33MHz
- |> >or a 486DX 25MHz (50MHz inside the processor).
- |>
- |> >I want to know which one would run MSWindows faster.
- |> >Is there any body who tested a 486DX2 "50MHz" ?
- |>
- |> How fast it runs Windows is going to depend more on the video board
- |> than on the CPU. Buy the 486-33DX. There will be a plug in
- |> replacement 486-66DX2 available if you decide later on that it isn't
- |> fast enough, and it will access memory much faster.
- |>
- |> --
- |> "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- |> in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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- Check with the person selling the computer. I just bought a 486DX2-50 that will accept
- any chip from a 386 up to a 486DX2-66 (a jumper changes the clock) and will accept
- the P5 when it is available. the difference between the 486DX-33 and the 486DX2-50 was
- about $50. The DX2-50 was clearly the better choice for me.
-
- I agree on the video card being the real differentiator for Windows speed.
-