From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 23 03:56:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA02902 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 03:56:42 -0700 Received: from pancake.remcomp.fr (root@pancake.remcomp.fr [194.51.30.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA02896 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 03:55:59 -0700 Received: from zapata.omnix.fr.org (zapata.omnix.fr.org [128.127.10.1]) by zapata.omnix.fr.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA04364; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:23:15 +0100 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:23:15 +0100 (MET) From: Didier Derny To: Stephen Hocking cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Functional differences between various 486 CPUs In-Reply-To: <199510230945.JAA20420@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi I found a nice 486 Motherboard for 125$ AL3 Acer Labs chip set Onboard 16550 + fast ide + parallel works fine with the AMD 486 DX4-120 (140$) I get 141000 dhrystone/secondes with FreeBSD 2.1-stable the price have been converted on the 1$ (US) = 5 FFR basis +---------------------+ | Didier Derny | | didier@omnix.fr.org | +---------------------+ On Mon, 23 Oct 1995, Stephen Hocking wrote: > I've just laid hands on a cheap 33Mhz 486 motherboard to replace my 25MHz > 386sx/387sx setup (yeah, well educating a kid, marriage problems & a mortgage > tend to drain the supply of ready cash) and am hunting around for a CPU to put > in it. So far I've seen the following - > > Clock Manu. Chip Price (Oz dollars, don't panic!) > 66MHz IBM 486 $93 > 66MHz Intel 486 $199 > 100Mhz Intel 486 $264 > 100MHz AMD 486 $156 > 100MHz IBM 486 $145 > > Which ones are 5v and 3.5v, which 3.5v parts have the onboard regulator to > allow using them in old motherboards like mine, and what differences are there > in regard to cache & onboard maths copro presence? > > I'm lusting after one of the 100Mhz parts, but accept giving budget that I'll > probably end up getting the 66MHz IBM unit iff it'll go in my 486 m'board and > it has a math-copro. For the heat sensitive units, my case has a 15cm fan > blowing over the motherboard. It's noisy enough and shifts a fair bit of air. > > Stephen > -- > > I do not speak for the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland - > They don't pay me enough for that! > > >