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Question about ancient processors..
« on: November 14, 2006, 07:22:02 pm »
What's faster, AMD's 486SX, or Intel's 486DX? I'd assume Intel because the DX is faster than the SX, but I think the old AMD's carried bigger workloads, or something.

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Nevermind, answered it myself. My AMD is an A80486SX2-66 and my Intel is an A80486DX-33.
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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2006, 12:42:38 am »
The DX and SX were so named because of the inclusion or exclusion of the coprocessor and the clock multiplier capabilities of the chip.  DX chips could go up to 100MHz, on a clock multiplier of 4x25MHz FSB, and SX chips could go (originally) up to 50MHz but were later extended to 66 at 2x33MHz.
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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2006, 08:14:02 am »
With or without...... Turbo?

Turbo was awesome :)

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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2006, 02:21:39 pm »
With or without...... Turbo?

Turbo was awesome :)

LMAO I remember my computers that had turbo switches!!! :D
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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2006, 02:39:04 pm »
lol.  I had an old Intel PC with a turbo switch when I was in second grade.

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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2006, 05:50:30 pm »
My old PC still has a turbo switch. :D
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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2006, 05:52:22 pm »
My old PC still has a turbo switch. :D

Mine still does too, but I sort of ripped it appart.  I used the RAM as keychains.  The  remains are in my closet at home.

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Re: Question about ancient processors..
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2006, 05:52:46 pm »
interesting side note Intel lets a legendary chip die!

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