Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 20:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "Marco A. Barbosa S." <mbarbosa@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> To: hamellr@qcsn.com (Rick Hamell) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD 486dx 66 MHz upgraded to AMD K5-75 MHz Message-ID: <199805130323.UAA08899@fciencias.ens.uabc.mx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.980512200141.-1783A-100000@greymouser.circle-path.org> from Rick Hamell at "May 12, 98 08:02:43 pm"
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> > > > hello, its me again... > > I have a problem, last weekend... > > I finally could get enough money to upgrade my puter at home... > > not much, but its a start... anyway... I get a strange reading > > from the kernel at boot time... when I start the puter, the > > bios thing tells me its an AMD K5 75 blah blah... with all > > the memory, the cd-rom, the drives, etc... and FreeBSD 2.1.6 > > tells me its a > > CPU: Pentium Class 38 MHz, and some times, it says 39 MHz... > > > > hmm is there something I dont know about the 2.1.6 release > > that I should have known before upgrading my machine? > > > > thanks for any hints... > > No... just a thing with the AMD K5 series chips. Amd kinda lied > about how fast the chip really was. The 75 there refers to the equivilant > Intel mhz that chip is equal to. > > > > Rick :~( -- ************************************* * Marco Antonio Barbosa Santoyo * * Facultad de Ciencias, U.A.B.C. * * Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico * ************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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