From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 8 05:47:38 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA09555 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:47:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA09550 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 05:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA16494; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:49:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.3/8.6.9) id PAA03555; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:01:18 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199612081401.PAA03555@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Amd (K5) 586 /133 In-Reply-To: <199612080358.WAA27217@oscar.cc.gatech.edu> from Carlos Ugarte at "Dec 7, 96 10:58:52 pm" To: cau@cc.gatech.edu (Carlos Ugarte) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:01:18 +0100 (MET) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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