Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:01:18 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: cau@cc.gatech.edu (Carlos Ugarte) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amd (K5) 586 /133 Message-ID: <199612081401.PAA03555@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199612080358.WAA27217@oscar.cc.gatech.edu> from Carlos Ugarte at "Dec 7, 96 10:58:52 pm"
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> > > I bought an A-Star (i430VX) mainboard and put in an Amd (K5) 133 MHz CPU. > > dmesg tells me 100.23 MHz. Who's cheating? > > No one, really. I'm pretty sure AMD uses a similar "rating" > scale to Cyrix - the particular chip you have is called something > like a K5-PR133, where PR stands for Pentium Rating (or something > similar). It actually runs at 100 MHz, but its performance was > found to be "equivalent" to a Pentium 133 MHz. > > How does it run? Any problems? It requires I586_CPU in the kernel config file and it seems to work fine. I will send worldstones later when I have solved my ccd problem. > > Carlos > > -- > Carlos A. Ugarte cau@cc.gatech.edu > Author of PageMage, a virtual desktop util for OS/2 > http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/home/cau/ > If you understand what you're doing, you are not learning anything > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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