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From: kls@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L. Shellberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 486 Upgrades
Message-ID: <1531@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 90 16:32:28 GMT
References: <4665@bwdls58.UUCP> <1990Oct16.160729.1363@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: Kenneth L. Shellberg <kls@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computing Laboratory, Ohio State University
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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:
>>In article ... kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>>>
>>>...I just upgraded my 386SX to a 486 (Can you say $1100?) 
>>                                  ^^^
>>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.
>>
>>Inquiring minds want to know!
>
>$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,
>5 16 bit slots, I calculate $1125, plus tax.
>

rev B6 486 chips are going for about $1200