Opinion Question: Tale of two CPUs

Stinkerton18

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I have a Socket 3 board that works pretty well. It has 128K of cache (can go higher, just need good chips to put in it), and supports up to a DX4-100Mhz.

I've thought about it a bit. It does support a 40MHz and 50MHz bus. So, if you had the choice of either of these two CPUs:
  1. DX4-100Mhz (33MHz bus)
  2. DX-50Mhz (50MHz bus)
Which would you choose? I'm leaning a bit towards the 50MHz chip, but given my disk I/O is a 16-ISA SCSI card, I'm not sure the faster bus speed will actually provide any benefit. Thoughts?
 

YMK

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Depending on what you want to run, they're worth it. Just have a plan for swapping out that tiny heatsink and obnoxious fan.