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- From: xchen@staccato.rutgers.edu (Xinghao Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: 486SX/25 vs. 386DX/33
- Keywords: 486SX/25 vs. 386DX/33
- Message-ID: <Jan.7.11.06.12.1993.11754@staccato.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:06:13 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In purchasing a mother board, I have to make a choice amoung the following:
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- 1. A 386DX/33 mother board with 64KB cache. There are 8 RAM module
- slots. The price is about $170. In the normal mode, it is about
- 18MHz. In the turbo mode, it is at 52 MHz. This board has a
- socket for a math co-processor.
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- 2. A 486SX/25 mother board with no cache. Also 8 RAM module slots.
- The price is about $200. In the normal mode, it is about 22 MHz. In
- the turbo mode, it is at 84 MHz. I was also told that I can late
- update to 486DX/50 (the mother board has a socket for a 486DX/50 chip)
- by pluging in a 486DX/50 and upgrading the crystal.
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- It seems to me that choice 2 is more cost-effective. The only thing
- bothers me is the fact that it has no cache on the mother board.
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- I may use the PC for running MicroSoft Windows 3.1, load it with
- MicroSoft DOS 5.0, do some image captures (grabbing), practice with a
- relational data base packege, play with multi-media application such
- as viewing TVs and games.
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- Wath would be your choice?
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- Thanks for your advice. Please reply by email.
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- -Chen xchen@caip.rutgers.edu
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