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- From: mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Run a 486/33MHz CPU at 40 or 50MHz?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.132709.17786@physchem.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 13:27:09 GMT
- References: <1868@ddbeano.Dundee.NCR.COM>
- Sender: mark@physchem (Mark)
- Organization: Physical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ
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- Originator: mark@joule.pcl
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- In article <1868@ddbeano.Dundee.NCR.COM>, stan@ddbeano.Dundee.NCR.COM writes:
- > In article <1993Jan8.100550.9995@ac.dal.ca>
- > francis@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >
- > > 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).
- > >
- > I increased a 486sx25 to 40Mhz by adding a heatsink and fan. No problems.
- >
- > Stan
-
-
- Some manufactures are in fact selling 33MHz Intel CPUs with a 40MHz clock. I
- would not trust it though. If the CPUs were stable at that sort of speed, then
- Intel would have sold them at that sort of speed.
-
- If you do intend to try it, and your old clock is 33MHz, you will probably find
- that the crystal unit is actually 66MHz, the speed of the crystal unit is divided
- by 2. So if you put in a 40MHz unit, your board will divide it down to 20MHz.
- There is probably a jumper to turn the divide by 2 off.
-
- If you do try it, fit a heatsink to the CPU and keep an eye on the temp of the
- CPU. Let me know how you get on.
-
- Mark
-
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- Mark
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