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Article #21Higher chip speeds?
From: Bake Timmons
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 09:59
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 09:59
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I've got a MacIIx, and I read that accelerators are often bought with a higher FPU speed than chip speed, because the the speed of the CPU and FPU are "controlled independently." Would it be a good idea just to upgrade to a 50MhZ version? Any experiences, advice? Thanks in advance. -- Bake Timmons, III -- "...there's nothing higher, stronger, more wholesome and more useful in life than some good memory..." -- Alyosha in Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!ucsbcsl!mcl!timmbake From: timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Higher chip speeds? Summary: Is it possible (has anyone tried) to replace an FPU with a faster one? Keywords: FPU 68882 MacIIx CPU Message-ID: <timmbake.720611997@mcl> Date: 1 Nov 92 09:59:57 GMT Sender: root@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Lines: 10