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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:53:00 +0100
From:      se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
To:        dk+@ua.net
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: anyone there using AMD's 133MHz chips?
Message-ID:  <199601102253.AA13484@Sysiphos>
In-Reply-To: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> "anyone there using AMD's 133MHz chips?" (Jan 10, 18:31)

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On Jan 10, 18:31, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote:
} Subject: anyone there using AMD's 133MHz chips?
} are there any problems/opinions on them?  It is worth to choose them
} over 120MHz ones?  (i.e., time make world on both)

Well, I just rebooted my ASUS SP3G after doing a 
close examination of its internals, with the goal 
to find out whether the AMD 486/133 (also known 
as AMD 5x86) will work.

Guess it will do!

AMD seems to have gone back to Intel conventions
regarding the positions of CLKMUL and WB/WT pins.
Only difference is, that the 2x/3x jumper becomes
a 4x/2x jumper now :)

According to some reports I read, the 5x86 is not
significantly faster than the 486DX4/120, but it
has the advantage to work well on PCI only mother
boards, which prefer a 33MHz bus clock (and don't
like a 40MHz clock at all :-)

The 5x86 seems to be available at some $129 single
quantity. Didn't ask for a DX4/120 price, since 
that chip can't be used in my system ...

Regards, STefan

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