From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 16:46:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BC11504B; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from seanj@speakeasy.org) Received: from localhost (seanj@localhost) by grace.speakeasy.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA30338; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:46:30 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:46:30 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Jensen-Grey To: Douglas Kuntz Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG, hw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel 810? In-Reply-To: <001101bf404b$c5049540$29100218@micronetinfo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG whoa. Celerons are whatever bus speed you set them to (not 66). I see no reason to buy a PIII when I can very reliably over clock a celeron processor. I have 5 Celeron SMP machines all running FreeBSD. They are celeron 300a OCd to 450 running on the Abit BP6 MB. Never a problem. I even have a pair of 366 Mhz chips overclocked to 550. My 4.0 Current machine is a dual celeron 450. please reference http://www.sharkyextreme.com http://www.arstechnica.com for info on overclocking. Abit boards are the defacto standard for over clocking. Sean. On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Douglas Kuntz wrote: > As others have stated, Socket370 boards arent all 810/810c...my 4.0-Current > machine was, until last week, a Celeron 366 Socket370 on a Shuttle 440LX > board. Though, as far as I can tell, if you're going to use a Celeron PPGA > chip, save money and go with the LX or Via chipset based boards, and use the > saved money on ram or a larger harddrive. Celerons are all 66mhz bus > speed...though, Intel has said they plan on releasing Socket370 Pentium IIIs > in 2000. > > Though, on a sidenote, I really see no reason on getting a 100mhz Socket370 > board to run a Pentium III on later, when, except for the clock speed > increase, a P3 is the same as a P2 with just the addition of SIMD > extensions, which I dont think FreeBSD uses yet. > > Douglas Kuntz > Editor > PC Tech Reports > http://www.pctechreports.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garrett Wollman" > To: ; > Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 2:23 PM > Subject: Intel 810? > > > > I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following > > claim: > > > > > All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip > > > set which does not support FreeBSD because 16MB of the motherboard > > > memory is used for the display controller. There is no way to tell > > > the FreeBSD kernel not to use this memory so it will corrupt data. > > > > I find this statement rather dubious. Can anyone out there say with > > more certainty? > > > > -GAWollman > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message