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. =20 ---------- 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: >=20 > * 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=20 > designed for the Win95/98 multimedia market)=20 >=20 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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