Intel i486 DX2/50

A regular Intel 486DX2/50 that runs at 50MHz using a 25MHz FSB. It does it's job but if you could overclock this to 66MHz you could gain, in a VLB or PCI configuration, 25% more speed in Doom due to both the higher CPU clock and higher front-side-bus .

If memory serves me correctly this CPU was pulled from a Compaq system and was fitted with the smaller style heatsink (see right CPU on the second picture). However, the CPU on the left is also a 486 at 50MHz (but a regular DX) with a much taller heatsink. Both will run fine but this shows that back in the day there wasn't really a 'standard' for cooling CPU's. Keep in mind that heatsinks (and fans) started appearing with 486-class CPU's. Before that all CPU's were practically almost without heatsink. A few excepts occur in laptop situations or when dealing with a LGA-socketed R80286 in which the heatsink clamps the CPU down.

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