Talk:VESA Local Bus
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the VESA Local Bus didn't have the electrical ability to drive more than 1 or 2 cards at a time.
- Is this really so? I've got a 486 sitting next to me with three occupied VESA slots.
This article needs a bit about VESA slots in Pentium motherboards, but I don't know much about that. Crusadeonilliteracy 09:54, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
[edit] 33mhz
i'm sure i read that there were also issues in implementing vlb for 486 chips that used a 33mhz FSB is this true and if so shouldn't it be mentioned in the article? Plugwash 17:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 50Mhz
I never had a problem running VLB cards at 50Mhz. The problem was with the L2 cache SRAM chips on many motherboards. 50Mhz required cache chips faster than 10 nanoseconds, preferably 6ns, which were expensive. 7ns would work and 8ns was on the edge.
With a 486 board that was stable at 50Mhz, an AMD 5x86 clocked to 200Mhz (ADW version because it ran the coolest of the PGA type) would run right up there with a non-MMX Pentium.
