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In article <1992Apr15.170929.5484@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>Hello all. I have a thing I wanted to verify with the Intel gurus on the
>net since someone is asking me this very question and I wanted to double
>check before I put my foot in my mouth...
>
>Is it true that a 50 Mhz 486 DX is a true 50 mhz chip all in one.
>Whereas DX2 is just 2 25mhz 486s, one sitting in the CPU socket, the
>second sitting in the Weitek math coprocesser socket?
>Thank you.
>


Well, I'm not an intel guru, but no, that's not true.  The 50 MHz 486DX
is a true blue 50 MHz processor inside and out.  The DX2 on the other
hand operates internally at 50MHz but at 25MHz externally.  A 25MHz clock
is fed to the chip which contains special clock doubling circuitry.  The
DX2 is not as fast as a 50MHz but is much faster than a 25MHz DX.


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