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From: simon@hpspwr.enet.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up an XT
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Date: 16 Oct 90 15:26:33 GMT
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In article <1990Oct15.234045.15419@amd.com>, phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes...
>In article <16345@shlump.nac.dec.com> simon@hpspwr.enet.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...) writes:
>|All in all I should say that if all you can spend on the upgrade is $200
>|-300, an accelerator board may not be a bad thing.  You can switch back 
> 
>You can buy a complete 386sx motherboard for $300. That's a 16 MHz
>system with room for up to 8 megs of mostly no wait state RAM.
>Why mess around with anything else?

This is of course true up to a point, and this was the route I went.  
However, an original XT box has only a 135 Watt power supply (may be not 
enough), you may need a different I/O card, and new floppy and hard disk 
controllers.  You definetely need a new memory chip set, since an
original XT uses 150 nsec chips.  This all depends on the particular 
computer configuration.  It may be a good idea to replace the whole 
motherboard, and it very well may be not.

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Leo Simon			simon@pwrvax.enet.dec.com

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