Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:01:49 -0700 From: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> To: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Christopher S. Weimann'" <cweimann@wallnet.com> Subject: RE: Computer Selection Rules ( was RE: What motherboard and CPU shall i choose) Message-ID: <01BEFC5E.31F619D0@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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Hi Christopher, The Cyrix MediaGX is a hyped up 486DX. Think of the MediaGX as a horse that was designed by a committee (remember the camel?), it is a 486 core with Pentium I/O'ing and media enhancements. The other problem is thermal. This device WILL glow cherry red if you don't have a large enough heat-sink on it (with a high CFM fan), and that's with just DOS running, it gets extremely hot when Win95 is used. FreeBSD may work on it, if it does, pay close attention to heat dissipation, other wise all you have is a very expensive heater. ---------- From: Christopher S. Weimann [SMTP:cweimann@wallnet.com] Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 10:37 AM To: Michael W. Akers; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Computer Selection Rules ( was RE: What motherboard and CPU shall i choose) On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:31:40PM -0700, Michael W. Akers wrote: > > * Cyrix (except MediaGX) (no SMP support yet) What are the issues with the MediaGX? I've been looking into SBCs and several of the interesting ones use the MediaGX chip. > (AMD is too flaky for use in multi boot applications, although it will > work with some OS's fine it may exhibit strange behavior, AMD was > designed for the Win95/98 multimedia market) > My single datapoint hasn't experienced any difficulties with AMD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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