jessea@hbmc.uucp (Jesse W. Asher) (03/30/91)
I'm interested in purchasing some 386-33 motherboards without the 386
chip and then buying and installing the chip separately. I've never
done this before so I was wondering 1) Where I can get good motherboards
and chips from, 2) how difficult this is(does the chip require any
soldering or is it just a plug and play type of deal and so on). I
would appreciate any help in this matter. Thank you.
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UUCP: ...!banana!hbmc!jesseadavidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (03/31/91)
In article <1991Mar29.170856.5633@hbmc.uucp> jessea@hbmc.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes: | I'm interested in purchasing some 386-33 motherboards without the 386 | chip and then buying and installing the chip separately. The reason that there are more vendors selling boards without the CPU than CPU without the board is that the CPU is hard to get. They're on allocation, and you better be very sure that you can buy the CPU at all before going for a deal like this. Someone mentioned on comp.arch they looked for a few months before finding a source. Unless you are doing this as a "life experience" to build your karma or something I bet you will spend more doing it separately, unless you are buying 50 or more pieces (in which case you should know all this stuff). -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me