Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 15:22:48 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: Joey Garcia <bsd_usr@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Overclocking AMD K6-'s and FreeBSD Message-ID: <39469818.961F0F3F@planetwe.com> References: <20000612230802.26867.qmail@web204.mail.yahoo.com> <39457039.7C88B9D5@planetwe.com> <1912567732.20000613165140@buz.ch>
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Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Hello Drew, > > Tuesday, June 13, 2000, 1:20:25 AM, you wrote: > > I wouldn't do this. A conservative setting for a 400 would be something > > like 425-475, but these things are spaceheaters anyhow. You might get > > away with a minimal overclock on the K6-2, but not anything big. My > > advice is leave it be. All my overclocking attempts with a K6-2/400 have > > failed miserably under just about any OS you can think of. > > Can't support that opinion. We tested many (recent, though) K6-2 450 > and all of them run rockstable @ 500 MHz (no problem running make > world then times looped), many even quite a bit higher. > But anyway, we don't use them for production servers (all of us hate > Intel, so AMD is our choice. And those K6-2 are incredibly cheap. > Personally, I prefer to have two K6-2 servers at about the same price > one P3 would cost). > > Best regards, > Gabriel Ahh. Mind you I'm not ragging the AMD CPU's, I love mine. I just never had any luck over clocking it. It is an older 400 model though, as I've said, it runs fairly hot anyhow. More power to you if you can OC them. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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