4 Nov
2002
4 Nov
'02
11:53 a.m.
From: Bob Shannon <bshannon(a)tiac.net>
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Anyone need 486 motherboards?
Reply-to: cctalk(a)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