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- From: ngai@nova.bellcore.com (John Ngai)
- Subject: Re: Overdrive for the 486/50??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.162702.16600@walter.bellcore.com>
- Sender: ngai@nova (John Ngai 21371)
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- References: <Yf7rijy00WB7RVXdRW@andrew.cmu.edu> <1fumfqINNedv@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <8f9__KS00WB5Qu_ogq@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Dec15.141953.21972@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:27:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.141953.21972@dvorak.amd.com>, tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> | Tom Barrett (TDBear), Sr. Engineer | tom.barrett@amd.com
- |> | AMD PCD / Austin, TX 78741 | v:512-462-6856 / f:512-462-5155
- |> | "No is Yes, and We are All FREE!" | CO made a #2 no-no... PU!
- |> | My views may not be shared by the organization of origin
-
- I watched this thread for a while, but am surprised no one points out an
- important reason of why you don't want to replace a DX50 with the DX2/66.
- The question one should ask is what performance do I gain? For all I have read
- and heard, the two chips delivers roughly the same *average* performance in
- most real applications. After you sum up the balance of on-chip and off-chip
- activities, it is simply about the same. Unless you are doing some
- computationally intensive task that are small enough to reside entirely in the
- on-chip cache, it is simply not worth it to swap.
-
- One reason I think that might favor the DX2/66 is it can be used with the
- VL-bus standard while 50MHz VL-bus does not seem viable (at least the
- recommedation is to have only 1(2?) on board device, instead of up to 3 slots.)
- However this cannot be a justification in the original context, as it is
- defined by the motherboard, rather than by the CPU chip.
-
- -- John
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