Anyone need 486 motherboards?

From: jpero_at_sympatico.ca <(jpero_at_sympatico.ca)>
Date: Mon Nov 4 19:53:00 2002

> From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Anyone need 486 motherboards?
> Reply-to: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:47:46 -0500

> Hmmm, are you sure about this?
>
> A 'real' DX-50 will clean the clock of a DX2-66, due to the true 50 Mhz bus.
>
> If your seeing a DX2-66 beat a DX-50, then the DX-50 is not being run at
> full (local bus) speed.
>
> I've got a (large) pile of NEC EISA servers that take plug-in CPU cards,
> so its easy to swap between
> the DX2-66 and DX-50 while keeping the same BIOS and chipset. The DX-50
> is clearly faster.
>
> (I'd love to not have this pile of servers, NEC PowerMate Express A7x's,
> in both desktop and tower chassis)
>
>
> Tothwolf wrote:

In a pinch,

Take a few AMD 486DX 40 CPUs and overclock them to 50 with active
cooling to find one or two that works 100%. They did take that well.
 I had one like that. and real 50MHz was a real treat too.

Cheers,

Wizard
Received on Mon Nov 04 2002 - 19:53:00 GMT