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- From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: 486SX/25 vs. 386DX/33
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 09:14:13 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- References: <Jan.7.11.06.12.1993.11754@staccato.rutgers.edu>
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- Keywords: 486SX/25 vs. 386DX/33
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- In article <Jan.7.11.06.12.1993.11754@staccato.rutgers.edu> xchen@staccato.rutgers.edu (Xinghao Chen) writes:
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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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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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- I would take the 486 even if there is no cache. The 486's are really
- double as fast as a 386. The 486 probably doesn't even need a
- on-board cache becuase it has internal 8k. The 386 has a 256 byte
- cache I think.
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- >
- >Wath would be your choice?
- >
- >Thanks for your advice. Please reply by email.
- >
- > -Chen xchen@caip.rutgers.edu
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