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- From: aron@archangel.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Top speed of Intel 80387DX
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 21:45:47 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <BxKELw.Dyz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov12.175832.1021@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
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- Keywords: math coprocessor intel 80387
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- In article <1992Nov12.175832.1021@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, rteasdal@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Rusty) writes:
- |> In article <BxKELw.Dyz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
- |> >I am making some changes to my 80386 CPU board, and have considered
- |> >upgrading to 40 MHz. I have a genuine Intel 80387 rated for 3 MHz.
- |> ^
- |> Wow! You're going to run the 80387 at more than 1300% of its
- |> rated speed? :-) Sorry, couldn't resist.
- |>
- |> >The Intel manual says that it "may not function at higher speeds".
- |> >The Intel tech support line representative told me it definitely
- |> >will NOT work at higher speeds.
- |> >
- |>
- |> Considering that the fastest '386 Intel makes is the 33 MHz,
- |> and that the only faster part is made by AMD, their hated competitors
- |> who had the temerity, the unmitigated gall, to challenge Intel's nice,
- |> safe, comfortable and obscenely profitable 386 monopoly, I suspect that
- |> this is sour grapes. However, I would not at all put it past Intel to be
- |> _deliberately_ producing FPUs that won't work reliably at the higher
- |> clock speeds of the AMD part. You could always buy a Cyrix FPU, which
- |> is spec'd to run at 40 without problems.
- |>
- |> >Has anybody actually run Intel's 80387 at 40 MHz? What are the
- |> >chances that it will work reliably?
- |> >
- |>
- |> Can't speak to math coprocessors, but Intel CPUs have a good
- |> record of being reliably overoscillated. I'm typing this on a 486SX/25
- |> juiced to 33 with a fast crystal and a chip fan; works just fine.
- |>
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- This is true....I've seen a 386dx-20 bumped to 27mhz without problem. The cpu was run at 30mhz
- but started giving errors so it stayed at 27. From what I understand, its not the cpu's that have
- a problem going faster..its the motherboards. This wasn't a problem on the aforementioned 368dx-20
- system because the 20mhz cpu was put in a 33mhz board so the system was fine.
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- So you might have trouble if you want to get a 40mhz motherboard and plop your 33mhz Intel cpu into
- it. I say this cuz' I'm under the impression that all 386-40 motherboards are compatible with AMD
- cpu's and not Intel's. I could be wrong though...
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- But as far as your cpu is concerned... I think you should be able to 40mhz (possibly higher)
- without problem.
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- Aron
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