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I just grabbed a Vortex GoldenGate 486SLC 25mhz, is there any info on upgrading it? are there any cool mods for it?
anyone uses one?  :-D
 

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Re: Can I upgrade a Vortex GoldenGate 486SLC 25mhz board? with a better cpu ??
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2006, 08:43:28 PM »
In theory you could fit a 50 MHz SLC, but AFAIK the CPU is not socketed, so it'd have to be de- and resoldered... Otherwise an SLC is the fastest CPU for this kind of 'socket' type (386SX).
Of course you could replace the crystal with a faster one and overclock the 25 MHz CPU. ;-)
 

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Re: Can I upgrade a Vortex GoldenGate 486SLC 25mhz board? with a better cpu ??
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2006, 09:10:28 PM »
yeah, I just saw the solder-type cpu...