What's the difference between i486DX/2 and i486DX/4?

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-03-04, 13:57:

Is this an IBM Blue lighting CPU ?
If so what’s the difference ?

Your question is too vague. For a second I was thinking you were talking about memory or something (which was bl5).

Provide a pic at the very least please or at least state a proper question. Wouldn't want this forum to fill up with clickbait now would you 😜

dionb wrote on 2021-03-04, 13:58:

What's the difference between i486DX/2 and i486DX/4?

Well obviously a DX/2 has a 2x multiplier (you probably already know where I am gonna be going with this 😜 ) and the DX/4 obviously has a 4x 3x multiplier 😜

Tetrium wrote on 2021-03-04, 22:23:

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-03-04, 13:57:

Is this an IBM Blue lighting CPU ?
If so what’s the difference ?

Your question is too vague. For a second I was thinking you were talking about memory or something (which was bl5).

[quote[Provide a pic at the very least please or at least state a proper question. Wouldn't want this forum to fill up with clickbait now would you 😜

BL2 is a clock doubled IBM 486SX equivalent (I think in the vein of a 486 SLC2). BL3 is clock tripled. Nothing vague about the question if you have heard of them 😀

dionb wrote on 2021-03-04, 13:58:

What's the difference between i486DX/2 and i486DX/4?

Well obviously a DX/2 has a 2x multiplier (you probably already know where I am gonna be going with this 😜 ) and the DX/4 obviously has a 4x 3x multiplier 😜

dionb was answering rhetorically. Not the best reply, but an accurate comparison.

debs3759 wrote on 2021-03-04, 23:23:

BL2 is a clock doubled IBM 486SX equivalent (I think in the vein of a 486 SLC2). BL3 is clock tripled. Nothing vague about the q […]
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Tetrium wrote on 2021-03-04, 22:23:

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-03-04, 13:57:

Is this an IBM Blue lighting CPU ?
If so what’s the difference ?

Your question is too vague. For a second I was thinking you were talking about memory or something (which was bl5).

[quote[Provide a pic at the very least please or at least state a proper question. Wouldn't want this forum to fill up with clickbait now would you 😜

BL2 is a clock doubled IBM 486SX equivalent (I think in the vein of a 486 SLC2). BL3 is clock tripled. Nothing vague about the question if you have heard of them 😀

dionb wrote on 2021-03-04, 13:58:

What's the difference between i486DX/2 and i486DX/4?

Well obviously a DX/2 has a 2x multiplier (you probably already know where I am gonna be going with this 😜 ) and the DX/4 obviously has a 4x 3x multiplier 😜

dionb was answering rhetorically. Not the best reply, but an accurate comparison.

I know it was meant rhetorically.

Personally I think a topic title BL2 vs BL3 is just too vague. I literally didn't know what it was about until after I had clicked it and read the OP. Hence the clickbait thingy.

I have heard of those IBM chips, but afaicr I never had one and I never worked with them. I do have some IBM Socket 3 CPUs but those are not named after the Blue Lightning nomenclature.