Rod, at 08:48 on Apr 17 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Thought you might be interested in the benchmarks of my AMD DX5/133 CPU,
BG> now that I have a motherboard which suits the chip.  Pity it's an AMI
BG> BIOS, but at least it seems to be extremely stable at 40MHz (CPU runs
BG> {at} 160MHz), especially as I'm running 2 x VLB cards in this machine.

RS> Yeah, certainly one of the better buys around at the moment.

The really strange thing is that once jumpered to take the DX5, the bootup
screen reports the chip as being an "Am5x86/P75", but then AMI
could put anything they like in their BIOS without it actually being 100%
correct.

Some of the fellows in the internet newsgroups have successfully run the
DX5  with a 50MHz clock (200MHz internally) on PCI boards, but mine doesn't
like that at all with VLB.  Still, it makes you wonder just how much more
they can squeeze from 486 technology.  Seems it isn't totally obsolete yet.

Regards, Bill

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