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In article <IevVVnC00WB0Irx0hW@andrew.cmu.edu> tt17+@andrew.cmu.edu (Trevor Tompkins) writes:
>As Far as your system is concerned, overdrive does not apply to you;
>that term is used for 486SX's.

	That isn't true, actually.  Intel has expanded the meaning of OverDrive
to include a whole range of 486 upgrades, not just the bogus 486sx upgrade
where they give you a whole 486DX and your SX is disabled.  (what a rip!).

	The HP Vectra 50 or 66U line that we have at work have OverDrive
sockets that are used to upgrade from, say, a DX2-50 to a 66.  That's what we
did, and the upgrade chip is an OverDrive CPU.  The pin-outs are different,
and it won't fit in a standard 486 socket.

>  Yes you can pull out the 486DX-33 and put in the 66Mhz chip.

	It basically depends on what kind of chip you get.  You might get
stuck with an OverDrive DX2 that won't fit.  If you buy a mail order DX2,
I would think it'd be OK, though, as long as your motherboard could handle
the faster chip.


>--Trevor Tompkins


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