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Article #71615Re: DX2 upgrade
From: David Stokes
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article: <817175120snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk> Rajesh Varia <raj@c4rv.demon.co.uk> writes: > I'll agree that the P5-75 is not the fastest processor for the price, Where did I say that anyway? > but at least there is an upgrade path (I think you'll find the > cost of P5-90 real cheap soon). Of course you'll have to ditch all > your VL cards and any 30 pin memory you have. > > Also if you using FPU calculations alot, then you will notice a BIG > difference between 486 & Pentium. > > BTW Dave, sort the line length on your news editor sorted out. Say, soz about the long lines (I just like to piss everyone off by making it chop lines up). When you stated your solution that I referred to, you didn't quite make it out that it would be necessary to replace the motherboard in order to upgrade to a Pentium-75 (not everyone knows that, you know). You get some silly fools who go out and buy one, and then are shocked to find that it is not compatible when they get it home. Dave
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,7091778ce13ac087 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: David Stokes <david@dstokes.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: DX2 upgrade Date: 1995/11/24 Message-ID: <376402062wnr@dstokes.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 120026646 x-nntp-posting-host: dstokes.demon.co.uk references: <816909068.23415@spindizy.demon.co.uk> <117770166wnr@rcannell.demon.co.uk> <390327233wnr@dstokes.demon.co.uk> <817175120snz@c4rv.demon.co.uk> x-smtp-posting-host: post.demon.co.uk [Fri, 24 Nov 95 21:20:45 GMT] x-broken-date: Friday, Nov 24, 1995 19.47.38 organization: None reply-to: david@dstokes.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc