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Article #3979Re: 486 Upgrades
From: Geraldo Veiga
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 17:41
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 17:41
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In article <1990Oct16.160729.1363@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley ) writes: >In article <4665@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes: >> ^^^ >>Please elaborate.. $1100 is about what the 486 chip costs, is it not? >>I have yet to see motherboards for less than $2500 using this chip. > >$1100 for a 486 cpu strikes me as *extremely* high, considering I just bought >my rev B5 for $450, cash American. Add another $675 for a 25mhz 128k cache >486 motherboard, OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS, 16Meg on board, two 8 bit slots, Isn't "B6" the current revision of the 486? What is the risk of buying an old version? $450 is too low for any Intel part, a 387 alone can cost more than that.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!ilan343 From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 486 Upgrades Message-ID: <1990Oct16.174133.22215@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 16 Oct 90 17:41:33 GMT References: <4665@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Oct16.160729.1363@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12