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From: gtoye@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Gene Toye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Speedup 386SX from 16MHz to 20MHz: SUCCESS! (for now)
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.143508.29467@supernet.dallas.haus.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 14:35:08 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.215159.25118@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Organization: Harris Adacom Corporation
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ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes:

>Well, folks.  Just put the 40MHz oscillator (for 20MHz operation) 
>into my 16MHz 386SX, and it is working just fine.  This was
>10 minutes ago.  I use Norton SI to check the computing power: it increased
>proportionally as expected.  

>I have a 386SX NEATsx 16MHz motherboard, which has an optional 
>oscillator slot, and a shorting block JP2 to switch
>to the optional oscillator.  Hence what I did was:

I also have a 16MHz NEATsx motherboard and have been running it at 20MHz for
about six months now (no, not continuously for 6 months).  I have had no
problems with it.  THe vendor I purchased my board from included the 40MHz
crystal with the system for free.  She indicated that about 80% of the
NEATsx boards run ok at 20MHz.  If you can't afford a DX machine, I really
think getting the SX allows you more flexiblity in what you run without
costing a lot more than a 286.
-- 
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