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From: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
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Thanks guys,
thats solved my problems, found a source of standard chips to.

Thanks
cheers,
Robert

Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:

> > The major question of course is thoug, can I just do a straight
> swap, or
> > do
> > I need a new mumboard as well for the MMX chip.?
>
>         You will need to change the mother board because of a slight
> different
> voltage for MMX chips.
>         However, as for the MMX chip, FreeBSD won't even notice the
> difference.
>         MMX is a set of chip burned instructions supposedly good for
> Multimedia.
> Nothing for FreeBSD to worry about. Except for a different cache, no
> increase on speed.
>
>         Regards,
>                 Mario Ferreira.



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