home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!ac.dal.ca!francis
- From: francis@ac.dal.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Run a 486/33MHz CPU at 40 or 50MHz?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.100550.9995@ac.dal.ca>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 10:05:50 -0400
- Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Lines: 21
-
- I have a 486DX/33MHz system, and I have been told by the manufacturer that
- the motherboard is upgradeable to 50MHz by plugging in a new crystal and CPU.
-
- Question: Is it possible to plug in (say) a 40MHz or even a 50MHz crystal
- into the board *without* replacing the old (33MHz) CPU?
- If so, is there a performance improvement or will the 486DX 33MHz chip just
- burn itself out, ie, has it been internally hardwired for the specified clock
- frequency of 33MHz? I would like to hear from anyone who has attempted this
- (with/without success).
-
- Francis
-
- -- IMI URU LIVE & LET LIVE
- Francis Morley
-
- ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-
- FRANCIS@AC.DAL.CA MORLEY@UG.CS.DAL.CA
-
- ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-
-