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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speeding up an XT
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.161726.1457@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 16 Oct 90 16:17:26 GMT
References: <16345@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1990Oct15.234045.15419@amd.com>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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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?

That's not exactly a $300 solution, because then you have to add RAM,
and probably will want to upgrade you HD controller.  When I did this
the performance on my 8-bit controller went into the toilet.  $300 for
the MB, $50 for a megabytes worth of 256K SIMMS, $100+ for a 16 bit HD/FD
controller adds up to $450+.

A $25 solution is to suck the 8088 out and plug a V20 in.  That will
double your speed according to Norton's SI, and may be sufficient for
some peoples needs; if you're using the XT just for word processing, say.

-- 
Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

causing trouble again.