🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:32:59 +0100, John Beardmore
<wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <829351465snz@myth.demon.co.uk>, Mike <zeus@myth.demon.co.uk>
> writes
> 
> >In article <WZRRxSA31ObxEwne@wookie.demon.co.uk>
> >           wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk "John Beardmore" writes:
> >
> >> You have to look at how cost effective any upgrade is. I've done a whole
> >> bunch of CPU upgrades and find that for non speed critical applications
> >> like testing new OSs, internet software etc, the upgraded machines,
> >> sometimes with very old hardware, can be very cost effective.
> >
> >You must have different machine requirements to the people I meet.
> 
> Probably not. It's just a matter of maximising return on investment...
> 
> 
> >These machines will eventually need a new motherboard anyway.
> 
> Not all cases can take a new motherboard; the metal work can preclude
> it.
> 
> P6 motherboards will probably beed different cases again...
> 
> 
> > Considerably 
> >cheaper in the medium term.
> >
> >e.g. Make-It 286 to 486+487        gbp145
> 
> Well, 90 anyhow.
> 

But a VLB/ISA DX/66 motherboard - if you can find one with 30 pin simm
slots would be less than 90, 60 or so, and you'd get 128K cache thrown in.
So I can't see why anyone would buy the upgrade CPUs unless they've got a
nonstandard motherboard or case - eg Amstrad...there lies a tale :(

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Hemal Popat
hemal@popath.demon.co.uk