From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 28 17:32:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05066 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:32:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04876 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 17:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-216.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.216]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA03195; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:31:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA19560; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:31:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805290031.TAA19560@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: alk@pobox.com cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Better luck with PPro 166 or 180 at 200 MHz? In-reply-to: Message from Tony Kimball of "Thu, 28 May 1998 09:22:18 CDT." <199805281422.JAA02276@compound.east.sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:31:24 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Kimball writes: > > I'm trying to decide whether to get a pair of 166 or 180 MHz PPro's. > Which has a better probability of running at 200MHz, a pair of > 166MHz 512k cache, or a pair of 180MHz 256k cache? I am told the PPro-166/512k has a poor overclocking record. So I didn't overclock mine for a long time. Its been running at 200 MHz since last November: CPU: Pentium Pro (199.31-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x617 Stepping=7 Features=0xf9ff Might not hurt that I have a stout 300W PS, several fans, and the biggest heatsink/fan I could find. Ran it at 233MHz for a half hour before I decided if it could do that, 200 MHz should be safe. It failed to boot at 266. Hey! You never know. ;-) MB is an Asus P6NP5, the AT form factor. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message