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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 486 Upgrades
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.174133.22215@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 17:41:33 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.160729.1363@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	) writes:
>In article <4665@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>>                                  ^^^
>>Please elaborate.. $1100 is about what the 486 chip costs, is it not?
>>I have yet to see motherboards for less than $2500 using this chip.
>
>$1100 for a 486 cpu strikes me as *extremely* high, considering I just bought
>my rev B5 for $450, cash American.  Add another $675 for a 25mhz 128k cache
>486 motherboard, OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS, 16Meg on board, two 8 bit slots,
Isn't "B6" the current revision of the 486?  What is the risk of buying
an old version?   $450  is too low for any Intel part, a 387 alone can
cost more than that.