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- From: joe@junkyard.UUCP (Joseph Sarkes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
- Message-ID: <1852@junkyard.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:51:43 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.202205.26297@crd.ge.com>
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- : problem. I believe the Overdrive chip /is/ SX pinout. I have no idea
- : what made Intel think a new pinout was remotely a good idea, they could
- : have just left off the FPU.
- :
- : DX2 chips use less power than the DX chips of the same (internal) speed,
- : because they don't drive the bus as fast. How much less power is
- : something someone with the spec sheets will have to provide, but unless
- : my memory is completely wrong it's quite a bit.
- :
- From the 486SX / 487SX intel manual
- The 486SX is available in the 196 pin PQTP package which is a surface
- mount package(cheaper to make the package and mount to the board I suppose.
- The 486 SX is also available in the 168 pin PGA ceramic package like the
- regular 486DX, and I suppose that the DX will fill the same socket without
- any problem if the PGA socket is used.
- The 487SX is available in a 169 pin PGA.
- The 486SX has a no connect on the FERR# pin, MP# pin, IGNNE# pin, all of
- which are for the numeric coprocessor.
- The 487SX has a KEY pin that prevents the chip form being inserted in
- the wrong orientation.
-
- From what I can gather, when the 487SX only causes the 486SX to float
- the bus and give it to the 487SX instead. Thus the 486SX would still
- draw current. However, this does allow a cheap mass produced product
- with surface mount technology, and also allow the ability to upgrade
- by inserting a new CPU chip that is keyed and has minimum potential
- for an unknowledgeable consumer to screw up royally by rotating the
- chip and shorting out $$$ worth of his computer.
-
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- My opinions are of course my own, but are indeed for sale
- (to the highest bidder). Don't shoot!! I know secrets!!
- Joseph Sarkes (junkyard!joe)
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