peteru@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Peter Uchytil) (07/08/89)
I just subscribed to this newsgroup, so I don't know if this has been discussed recently, if so I appolagize. I have a basic IBM PC and I have been thinking for a while that I'd like more speed, but I have very limited monetary resources. The desire for speed has grown this summer because they have given me a 386 machine to work on. How can I go back to the PC? Somebody told me about the NEC v20 and v30 chips that I could drop into my PC and get up to 8 MHz. Much better than old 4.77. Are these chips really compatible? Can I just yank out the 8088 and drop this one in? How about my 8087? Is the v20/30 going to mess that up? I had heard that the speed of the v20/30 is in the math functions, so since I have an 8087, is it going to help? Please, someone help! I'm going to be doing lots of C compiling next semester, so I'll take all the speed I can get. Is there some other *cheap* option I don't know about? If you don't want to waste space, email to me. Thanks a LOT! Pete peteru@icarus.pen.tek.com