From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 29 11:29:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00343 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbes.saturn-tech.com (drussell@[207.229.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00337 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by hobbes.saturn-tech.com (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id MAA17342; Thu, 29 May 1997 12:27:25 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:27:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell Reply-To: Doug Russell To: Satoshi Asami cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released In-Reply-To: <199705282115.OAA06476@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 May 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I still can't overclock it at 2.5x 83 MHz. Only 2.5x 75 MHz works with the > * K6 whereas it worked at 2x 83 MHz for the P133. > > That is quite normal. Intel is known to have more slack in their > chips' specifications in terms of pushing it to the limit than their > competitors. (Whether that's good or bad, I won't say. :) This isn't *necessarily* true. (Although it may be for many of the newer chips.) If you look at 486-class CPUs, I can't run my Intel DX2/66 chip anything higher than 66 Mhz or it won't boot. On the other hand, I have a couple of AMD-133 chips running at 150 and 160 Mhz... The one that runs FreeBSD as a communications server, web server, mail host, etc. etc: hobbes:/home/drussell {3} uptime 12:19PM up 74 days, 14:44, 8 users, load averages: 0.56, 0.32, 0.43 hobbes:/home/drussell {4} uname -a FreeBSD hobbes.saturn-tech.com 2.2-BETA_A FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Fri Mar 14 00:37:04 MST 1997 drussell@hobbes.saturn-tech.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ HOBBES i386 Hmm... My uptime is even getting up there. Nifty. :) Later......