From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 11 13:58:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2834D14BED for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:58:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwakers@home.com) Received: from c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com ([24.5.221.231]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990911205827.TXPE9808.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:58:27 -0700 Received: by c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BEFC5E.31F619D0@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:01:50 -0700 Message-ID: <01BEFC5E.31F619D0@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> From: "Michael W. Akers" To: "Michael W. Akers" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "'Christopher S. Weimann'" Subject: RE: Computer Selection Rules ( was RE: What motherboard and CPU shall i choose) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 14:01:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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