[ale] AMD 5X86 chips...

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David Chow wrote:
> 
> And AMD486DX2-80 is a clock doubled chip.  This means your base speed
> is 50 mhz.  Many cards will not work with a 50mhz bus (unless you put in
> a VLB wait of 1 or 2).   In my experience, the 33 mhz is the most stable
> bus speed.
> 
> If I remember right, a AMD486DX4-100 (clock tripled 33mhz) runs comparable
> to a P-60.  I would say your chip (clock doubled 50 mhz) would be a bit
> faster than the dx4-100.
> 
> Now, what I would like to know is, how does a
> AMD486DX4-120 (clock tripled 40 mhz) compare to vernard's
> AMD5x86-133 (clock quadrupled 33mhz)?
> 
> dave
> 
> Vernard Martin wrote:
> > > Yeah, but how would it compare to, say, my AMD486DX-80 cranked up to 100MHZ?
> >
> > I"m not quite sure. I do know that over-clocking your cpu by 25% isn't a
> > healthy idea in most cases. There are lots of cases of over-clocking the
> > AMds to 160Mhz, I'm pretty sure that will smoke a dx2-100.
> >
> > V
> > --
> > Vernard Martin
> > (vernard.martin at cc.gatech.edu) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/vernard/
> > College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
> >
> 
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> David Chow
> Triad Technologies Inc, Norcross Georgia, 30071
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For the record. AMDx2-80 is 40mhz externally and doubled internally to 80 mhz