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- From: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
- Subject: 486DX light in a 486SX tunnel.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.232105.2816@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: tmcreek@c00477-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
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- Reply-To: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <IeYSMJK00Voz8Vf8ZN@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:21:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.155448.18248@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca>, brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell") writes:
- >
- >ks3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenton Shaver) writes:
- >
- >>Could anyone clear this up for me?
- >>I read it in some magazine, but my ECE
- >>friend is credulous. Will my 487sx
- >>just shut the 486sx down and take over?
- >
- >That's what I heard. IMHO the 486sx is a *big scam*.
- >
- >To get your 486sx you buy a chip which is a functional 486dx with the
- >co-pro disabled (yes more work than a regular 486dx - yet cheaper!).
- >At some point in the future you need the co-pro, so you buy a 487sx, which
- >is just the regular 486dx with a 487sx stamp on it, which shuts down the
- >486sx crippled chip and takes over the machine running it like the 486dx
- >it should have been!!
- >
- >The above is all rumour I've heard from many sources, and read in a trade
- >rag. It is not the gospel!!
- >
- >brian
- >--
- >Brian J. Murrell brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca
- >InterLinx Support Services, Inc. uunet!van-bc!ilinx!brian
- >North Vancouver, B.C.
- > Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
- >
-
- Yes, the 486SX is a HUGE scam. But there is a way around.
-
- Microlab is selling a 486SX-25 that they call an SX/DX board. You can swap the
- SX chip for a DX, change exactly 3 jumpers and a 4-pin chip-looking oscillator
- and go clear up to a DX2-66.
-
- I have one of these boards. I have heard bad things about Microlab before, but
- I had always had good chats with them on the phone. So I decided to try them
- anyway. This board is EXCELLENT. It has a 512K AMI BIOS with a full setup
- built in. It supports 2 oscillators via 2 sockets for same and a jumper, in
- addition to a turbo switch. It is 2/3 baby size, ideal for any installation.
- The chipset is ETEQ, and it works with everything I have tried. There are
- 8 sockets for SIMMS (1M or 4M, 3 or 9 chip). Docs are thorough.
-
- At $299, it gets **** with me.
-