From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 4 21:13:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA7D37B8F9 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 21:13:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA48503; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 00:13:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 00:13:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Evergreen CPU replacements on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200007311350.JAA39465@vulcan.addy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Francisco Reyes wrote: >I just got a catalog from a mail order vendor and they have some >Evergreen Pentium upgrades. >Do these work with FreeBSD? > >A 233Mhz is only $79. This would be a nice upgrade to my Pentium >100Mhz desktop since I have noticed that when making world the >CPU is usually the bottleneck. > >If they work on FreeBSD would it be worth a $20 difference to go >with a 333Mhz instead of a 233Mhz? >I am also planning to upgrade from 32Mb to 64Mb. I dont see why they wouldnt work (not that I've tried one) but beware that a (cheap) socket7 motherboard and a K6-2 cpu would be about the same price and probably land you over 400mhz. A K6-2 450 is $45-50 starting price and a K6-2 500 starts around $55-60 (according to pricewatch.com). You could most likely pick up a decent new or used super7 motherboard for $50. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message