Re: Aptiva 486DX2, 50MHZ (help)

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From: George Durbridge
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:00

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Michael (mdecker1XXX@msn.com) wrote:

: DX2-50's use a 25 MHz system bus, so quadrupling that would operate the 586
: at 100 MHz.  My motherboard (it's actually my three-year-old son's
: machine), however, has a jumper which permits me to set the system bus to
: 33 MHz, so I get the full benefit of the 133 MHz chip.  Yours may, too.  On
: a 40 MHz board, the chip triples the clock and runs at 120 MHz, but I
: believe that with the faster bus, that would actually be an improvement
: over a quadrupled 33 MHz bus. The whole job took me about 15 minutes.

Some enthusiastic souls have it both ways and run the chip at 160 mhz.  
You'd want a good seal with the heat sink, wouldn't you ?

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From: gdurb@aardvark.apana.org.au (George Durbridge)
Subject: Re: Aptiva 486DX2, 50MHZ (help)
Date: 1997/08/19
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