28 Oct
2002
28 Oct
'02
11:43 p.m.
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:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, chris wrote:
If your board can accept one, a DX2-66 performs better than a DX50. The
DX2-66 only has a 33MHz clock, but if the motherboard has VLB slots, a
33MHz bus is a must, since anything faster causes timing problems. (A
40MHz bus can be made to work, but it isn't fun...) If the board has an
oscillator can or speed selection jumpers, it should be easy to use a
DX2-66 instead of a DX50.
-Toth
Are they
ALL DX2-50's? I'm looking for a DX-50.
I'll double check, but yeah, I am pretty sure these 4 are DX2-50.
I also have a small stack of 486 CPUs (cpu chip only), and there might
be a regular DX in there (I know there are some SX and DX2's... as well
as a few that the chip is glued to the heatsink, so I'm not sure what
they are)