From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 18 12:03:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA01191 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 12:03:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01184 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 12:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA04592 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:03:38 +0100 Message-Id: <199602182003.AA04592@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:03:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: Blair Schmittel "AMD CPU's" (Feb 18, 12:29) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Blair Schmittel Subject: Re: AMD CPU's Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 18, 12:29, Blair Schmittel wrote: } Subject: AMD CPU's } } I have heard that the NexGEN CPU's are junk. What about the AMD 5x86 133 CPU's. Last time I checked, AMD and NexGEN were merging. I'm using the AMD 5x86 (for a few weeks) and I'm very satisfied. You'll want to have the primary and secondary cache set to WB with Dirty Tag RAM for best results. (I can't set the primary cache to WB, but the secondary works and I found a cheap source for the Dirty Tag RAM: $8.00 for another 10% ...) Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se