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- From: ms184@castor.geog.ucsb.edu (Mark Timothy Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 486SX/33--is it available yet?
- Message-ID: <6771@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:48:27 GMT
- References: <92321.37235.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
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- Organization: U. C. Santa Barbara, Geography Department
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- In article <92321.37235.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
- >Greetings from net.land:
- >
- >I'm currently looking at purchasing a PC sometime soon. After looking at
- >several different configurations and CPUs in the $1800-$2000 range, I finally
- >decided on a 486SX/25. However, I've recently seen ads (mostly from mail
- >order companies) for 486SX/33 systems. If these will soon be available, this
- >may be my chip of choice. Are 486SX/33 systems shipping yet? How much more
- >expensive are they than a 486SX/25? How much cheaper than a 486DX/33?
- >
- >Will there be any difference between the SX/33 and the DX/33 other than the
- >lack of the FPU in the SX? If that's the only difference, will applications
- >which don't use the FPU run as fast on the SX/33 as on the DX/33? Or am I
- >missing something here?
- >
- >I had trouble deciding on a price/performance basis between the SX/25 and the
- >DX/33. This could be the answer for me.
- >
- >
- >Tim Irvin
-
- If you want 486SX-33 performance here's whatcha do.
-
- Buy a 486-50 motherboard.
-
- Buy a 486SX-25 CPU.
-
- Set the motherboard up so it runs at 33Mhz.
-
- Buy a $20 486 chip fan.
-
- Put the fan on the chip.
-
- Put the chip in the board.
-
- Count your extra money.
-
- The only difference between your 486SX-25(33) and a 486DX-33 will be the
- FPU and a whole lot of money. Also, when other chips come out you get
- to upgrade for only the cost of the new CPU. With a 50Mhz motherboard
- you could improve your system all the way up to a 486DX/2-100 if you
- wanted, without ever having to swap motherboards.
-
- Of course, the advantage of getting a 33Mhz 486SX is that you get to
- push it to FIFTY MEGAHERTZ. :-)
-
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