From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 26 13:39:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA15268 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 May 1996 13:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA15262 for ; Sun, 26 May 1996 13:39:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01481 for ; Sun, 26 May 1996 15:39:28 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 15:39:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 486dx 33 to 486dx4 100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pondering ways to extend the life of my trusty old 486 box, I've been pondering replacing my 486dx 33 with a 486dx4 100. I was curious if anyone else has made that sort of switch and documented "real world" performance increases. These cpus are less than $100 now so I'm pretty tempted. Other pieces of the system are an Orchid Fahrenheit video card on a VLbus, An adaptec 1542C for disk, tape, cdrom, and 32 megabytes of RAM. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================