From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 14 15:37:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19911 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19893 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:37:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA00817 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29350; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:36:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA11766; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:36:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:35:59 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Steve Passe , FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU heatsinks In-Reply-To: <199611141014.CAA16087@MindBender.serv.net> 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 Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >Oh, one other thing, b4 you do appply it record ALL the numbers & wordage > >you see on the top of the chip (& bottom while your at it). As you will > >be helping with the SMP kernel we may want to know these for checking > >against errata sometime in the future (you did volunteer to walk on the > >bloody edge, didn't you?) > > >From what I've seen, the top only says "Intel Pentium Pro". All the > important information is on the bottom (stepping, speed, cache size, > etc.). Well, I didn't take it out of the socket, but the top had this information: KB80521 EX166 Q935 512K L619006Q-0238 It was sold to me as 166MHz e/w 512K cache, which seems likely, even tho I don't know how to decode the gobledegook I just typed. Rod doubtlessly does, but I'm not sure I want to know if I've been had. Perhaps I'd be happier not knowing 8-) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------