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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: P24T
- Message-ID: <92311.134450I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- From: CUNY/Spartacus <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 13:44:50 EST
- References: <1992Nov2.185933.15087@walter.bellcore.com><1992Nov04.014202.3593@zeos.com> <dhess.720862275@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
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- >In article <dhess.720862275@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>, dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew
- >William Hess) says:
- >My Gateway 4DX2-66V (Micronics VL-Bus motherboard, I believe) has an
- >OverDrive socket, but I'm not sure how many pins it has. ZEOS (Ken,
- >forgive me if this is incorrect) seems to imply in their new ads that
- >upgradability to the P24T requires an extra row of pins on the standard
- >486 socket. I don't know what this implies about standard OverDrive
- >sockets.
- >
- >If I had to guess, though, I'd say that Intel is market-savvy enough to
- >know that there will be a *large* market for a scaled-down P5 that fits
- >into the OverDrive socket that exists on so many currently installed 486-
- >based motherboards. I'm confident that Intel will find some way to
- >satisfy this market with a P5-like upgrade.
-
- Isn't replacing the entire motherboard a just as good
- alternative than plugging in a new p24t (Pentium SX). Sure
- it might cost a bit more, but a new motherboard wouldn't have
- the 32/64bit limitations a 486 motherboard would cause.
- Just a thought.
- BTW, do PCs with motherboards with the p24t socket cost more
- than motherboards without the p24t socket already?
- eg:Extra$(MotherBoard w/p24t socket) + p24t =~(True P5 (Pentium) Motherboard? )
- cost wise I mean?
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