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From: ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Change clock speed on 386SX motherboard?
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.040434.15650@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 91 04:04:34 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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As I mentioned before, just got a 16MHz 386SX.  In the manual, it seems 
to be saying that the same motherboard (merely refered to as NEATsx
motherboard, manual prepared by a technical documentation company) can
be used as a 16MHz or 20MHz.  Can it be true that I merely has to
change the CPU from a 386SX-16 to a 386SX-20 and speed the RAM
up appropriately, add the 40MHz oscillator (for the 20MHz CPU, as 
mentioned in the manual), and I have a 20MHz 386SX.  Does anyone
has any actual or near-actual knowledge about this?  Or even
educated speculations?  

Does anyone know the price of a 386SX-20 off the market?  How about
trading-in the 386SX-16?  I have seen price for some motherboard
selling without CPU, but no price for the CPU itself. 

Thanks in advance.

E. Teng Ong (ong@d.cs.okstate.edu)