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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.192241.938@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1grur8INNkg2@savoy.cc.williams.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:22:41 GMT
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- In <1grur8INNkg2@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93gke@williams.edu (oldwanda) writes:
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- >I ordered a 486SX-33 motherboard, and when it came I couldn't help but
- >notice the chip has printed on it "486SX-25". I was quite pissed until
- >I double checked with Norton's SI (and others), and it said "486SX,
- >33Mhz". Whats going on? I assume it is a 33, but then why the mis-
- >labeling? Are all SX-33's mismarked in this way?
-
- Sounds to me like what you've got is a 486SX-25 that your system
- builder has installed and 'pushed' to 33 MHz. Go back to being pissed
- and contact your vendor.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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