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- From: swm@uts.amdahl.com (Steven W. McCann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: 386/486 Motherboards sought
- Keywords: motherboard
- Message-ID: <80jT03=xc4cy00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:24:10 GMT
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- After suffering for years with a slow system (AT clone at 8 Mhz) I have
- decided to give myself a Christmas present of a new motherboard.
- Being basically frugal (read cheap), I want the most bang for my bucks.
-
- I have seen advertised some motherboards (ie: Deico Predator) that will
- take both 386 and 486 processors at various speeds. The claim is that
- you just set some jumpers to tell it what CPU chip is there, and you are
- off and running. You just put in the cpu chip and set the jumpers and
- you are off and running. When you want to upgrade, you replace the chip and
- reset the jumpers. No new clock crystal, no BIOS upgrade, just a new chip.
-
- This would allow me to put in a 386 chip now, and upgrade later to a 486
- when and if the prices drop. Sounds like the best of all possible worlds
- to me.
-
- The only ones I have been able to find are the Deico board, and a Taiwan
- built board sold by Altman Computer. Deico got a mixed review here in
- this group recently, and the folks at Altman aren't very forthcoming
- with information (they just tell me that it is a Taiwan built board, no
- manufacturer or anything else).
-
- Anybody out there have any experience with these things. I would appreciate
- any comments, sources, and price information I can get.
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- Regards,
- Steve
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