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First post, by Tsukiouji

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I've got that CPU with glued heatsink and couldn't identify it first, but it just worked, so I convienced myself that there's no need to detach that heatsink. Later as I switched 486 CPUs between my mo-bos this little fellow happend to be placed right after the DX2 in a than-unused mobo. Today I've powered that rig and found it working fine, and what is more interesting, it even passes tests with results comparable to DX2/66. I got curious what's under the heatsink (like, maybe SL-enhanced pard, or something), finally got it off, and literally was stunned - a plain old DX/33. Curiously, it looks like SX829 is the latest stepping for DX/33s: http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SX/SX829.html .

Even more interesting fact, as I first tried to identify the chip by it's markings underneath, i've stumbled upon a collector here: https://sites.google.com/site/alexanderhere/collections . He posses an i486 A88486DX-50 with quite similar markings underneath 'A4 ED 38' and, i'd say, a very close number of 93292384CB.

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Reply 1 of 3, by BSA Starfire

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Intel had a habit of under marking CPU's to fill market gaps after they had mastered the process of chips to fill the market. Perhaps your chip is one of these. It was always common to find 486 SX 25MHz that would run at 33MHz or more for example.

286 20MHz,1MB RAM,Trident 8900B 1MB, Conner CFA-170A.SB 1350B
386SX 33MHz,ULSI 387,4MB Ram,OAK OTI077 1MB. Seagate ST1144A, MS WSS audio
Amstrad PC 9486i, DX/2 66, 16 MB RAM, Cirrus SVGA,Win 95,SB 16
Cyrix MII 333,128MB,SiS 6326 H0 rev,ESS 1869,Win ME

Reply 3 of 3, by Tsukiouji

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Welp. I've always thought that clock doubling was made internally and kind of hardlocked. Never ever crossed my mind the very possibility of the 486DX to run at double clocks, and DX2 at triple.