WHAT is the better chip? 486DLC-33 or 386DX-40?
Dale T. Long
386DX-33 processor in my machine. Which is the wiser choice?
I know the DLC is a supercharged 386 but is it better? Does it out perform
the 386DX-33? If so is it more reliable or of dubious compatibility?
On another note, how reliable are the '3/486 Universal Mother Boards'?
These are the ones that have a VESA local bus and can take a 386 or any 486
at any clock speed. Is there any loss of performance as a trade off for the
upgrade flexibility? Is the variable clock part prone to be unreliable?
Dale Long.
ardt...@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Alan Hart
>I am faced with the option of having either a 486DLC-33 (Cyrix I think) or a
>386DX-33 processor in my machine. Which is the wiser choice?
>I know the DLC is a supercharged 386 but is it better? Does it out perform
>the 386DX-33? If so is it more reliable or of dubious compatibility?
I have a friend who has a DLC. He is very happy with it. I don't think there is
any real compatibility issue with the processor, but wouldn't you be better off
getting an upgradeable motherboard? A 486SX-25 would probably outperform the
Cyrix, and you would have the upgrade path to a DX2-50. Or you could go for
SX-33 or DX-33, with upgrade path to DX2-66. You could even go for one of these
deluxe "takes-anything" (386DX/486SX/486DX/487SX/486DX2 25-50Mhz, including
DX-50 or DX2-66) motherboards such as Evesham Micros do in the UK. The Personal
Computer World reviews of their stuff tend to be very good, in terms of speed
at least, so I don't think there can be an inherent problem with this type of
design.
Does anyone know better?
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Keith Rohrer
|> In a recent article ardt...@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Dale T. Long) writes:
|> >I am faced with the option of having either a 486DLC-33 (Cyrix I think) or a
|> >386DX-33 processor in my machine. Which is the wiser choice?
|> >I know the DLC is a supercharged 386 but is it better? Does it out perform
|> >the 386DX-33? If so is it more reliable or of dubious compatibility?
|>
|> I have a friend who has a DLC. He is very happy with it. I don't think there is
|> any real compatibility issue with the processor, but wouldn't you be better off
|> getting an upgradeable motherboard? A 486SX-25 would probably outperform the
BYTE or somebody did a comparison, and the 386-40 was a bit faster than
the 486SX-20. People have said the 486-DLC-40 will run about twice as fast
as the 386DX-40, with the 486's internal cache enabled.
|> Cyrix, and you would have the upgrade path to a DX2-50. Or you could go for
|> SX-33 or DX-33, with upgrade path to DX2-66. You could even go for one of these
|> deluxe "takes-anything" (386DX/486SX/486DX/487SX/486DX2 25-50Mhz, including
|> DX-50 or DX2-66) motherboards such as Evesham Micros do in the UK. The Personal
|> Computer World reviews of their stuff tend to be very good, in terms of speed
|> at least, so I don't think there can be an inherent problem with this type of
|> design.
|>
|> Does anyone know better?
Yes, see above.
Keith
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> I am faced with the option of having either a 486DLC-33 (Cyrix I think) or a
> 386DX-33 processor in my machine. Which is the wiser choice?
> I know the DLC is a supercharged 386 but is it better? Does it out perform
> the 386DX-33? If so is it more reliable or of dubious compatibility?
For what i read is somewhere in between a 486SX25 and a 486DX33.
By the way is there any TRUE speed comparissor around, what about
shareware?
Chip Salzenberg
>I have a friend who has a DLC. He is very happy with it. [...]
Where could I find info on enabling the on-chip cache? The typical
DOS program in AUTOEXEC just isn't good enough for this Linux user...
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Juan Carlos Leon
>According to am...@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alan Hart):
>>I have a friend who has a DLC. He is very happy with it. [...]
Me too!!!
>Where could I find info on enabling the on-chip cache? The typical
>DOS program in AUTOEXEC just isn't good enough for this Linux user...
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>Chip Salzenberg, at home: <ch...@fin.uucp> or <tscs!fin!chip>
> Welcome to the monkey house. or <chip%f...@myrddin.sybus.com>
Have you asked at the Linux newsgroup, there's a driver for enabling the
cache compatible with unix/linux, I don't remember which site but it's
one of the usual ones (garbo, oak, simtel, wuarchive)
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Paul S. Bayer
In article <ardtlong....@adam.adelaide.edu.au> you write:
>I am faced with the option of having either a 486DLC-33 (Cyrix I think) or a
>386DX-33 processor in my machine. Which is the wiser choice?
>I know the DLC is a supercharged 386 but is it better? Does it out perform
>the 386DX-33? If so is it more reliable or of dubious compatibility?
>
>These are the ones that have a VESA local bus and can take a 386 or any 486
>at any clock speed. Is there any loss of performance as a trade off for the
>upgrade flexibility? Is the variable clock part prone to be unreliable?
>
>
>Dale Long.
>ardt...@adam.adelaide.edu.au
I'll be quite honest - I sell these boards as part of the machines I
integrate for my business clients - They like the idea of flexibility and
not paying for a new motherboard every time they upgrade... I've found them
to be quite reliable. In 9 months, I'be never lost one due to anything
about the boards being defective (Although the coffee that guy spilled on
it wasn't too healthy for it!!)
I like them - But beware - The VESA slots are only useful when there's a
486 in it (Meaning taht the board is set to use the 486 socket) This means
that if you put a 486Cyrix in teh 386 socket IT WON'T WORK!!!!
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