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- From: blean@rwb.esd.sgi.com (Bob Blean)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Replace 486/33 by 486/50-CPU possible?
- Message-ID: <ptek3to@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 03:48:23 GMT
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- In article <BuMJJp.Csz@nic.umass.edu>, mcrocker@titan.ucc.umass.edu (MATTHEW S CROCKER) writes:
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- |> You could however take out a 486/33 and replace it with a 486/66DX2
- |> when they ship (have they shipped yet?).. this will still have a 33 MHz
- |> bus speed so the BIOS and timer don't care but the Chip runs
- |> at 66 MHz.... If its worth the money is another matter.
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- Why won't the BIOS care? Wouldn't any timing loops it may have run at the
- cpu speed (i.e. 66 mhz)? Such a loop is quite likely to fit in the on-chip
- cache.
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- -- Bob
- ("Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." H.D. Thoreau)
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