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- From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Overdrive for the 486/50??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.141953.21972@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 14:19:53 GMT
- References: <Yf7rijy00WB7RVXdRW@andrew.cmu.edu> <1fumfqINNedv@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <8f9__KS00WB5Qu_ogq@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <8f9__KS00WB5Qu_ogq@andrew.cmu.edu> fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) writes:
- >
- >Well for one thing, the dx50 and the dx2/66 are different chips
- >needing different motherboards, so it's quite possible that to switch
-
- These two devices may or may not be the same... the OverDrive(tm) version
- is of slightly different pinout and is plugged into the OverDrive(tm)
- compatible socket. There is also an OEM version which has identical
- pinout to the DX, but may be hard to find on the open market.
-
- As for other issues... the DX2/66 uses a 33MHz clock and the DX50 uses
- a 50MHz clock. These frequencies are so far apart that it is unwise to
- replace crystals since the chipset and clock filtering components (for
- FCC/VDE) may not be able to take the change well.
-
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