🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <317681ef.4408785@news.demon.co.uk>, Hemal Popat
<hemal@popath.demon.co.uk> writes
>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.

It already has L1 and L2 cache.


>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 :(

Among the complicating factors are:

 the need for 16 rather than 8 sim holders

 non standard motherbaord

 non standard metalwork ( AST )

 the machine belongs to a client; tactless to carve it up but OK to 
 upgrade it.


Do you know of any modern motherbaords that will take 16 off 1 meg 
simms as well as possibly some 72s at the same time ?  If so, I'd
certainly think about it.


Cheers, J/.
-- 
John Beardmore