From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Oct 24 19:29:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA19773 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 19:29:51 -0700 Received: from gold.interlog.com (gold.interlog.com [198.53.145.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA19750 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 19:29:35 -0700 Received: from lotbiniere.interlog.com (lotbiniere.interlog.com [198.53.146.76]) by gold.interlog.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id WAA20399; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 22:29:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lotbiniere.interlog.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA02266; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:31:52 -0400 Message-Id: <199510250131.VAA02266@lotbiniere.interlog.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lotbiniere.interlog.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: "Michel Joly de Lotbiniere" Reply-to: "Michel Joly de Lotbiniere" Organization: Troglodytical Netdroids Excorporated To: Stephen Hocking cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Functional differences between various 486 CPUs In-reply-to: Message from Stephen Hocking of "Mon, 23 Oct 1995 19:45:56 +1000." <199510230945.JAA20420@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 21:31:52 -0400 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I can't answer your question except in the case of the AMD 100MHz part: this is the 3.5 V part which I have, and I believe it would die a miserable death in a 5 V board. I certainly know nothing about the voltage converter sockets advertised, but given that they cost ~$30 Canadian, I'd stick that into a new low voltage m'board and go with the AMD 100MHz part. You will be pleasantly surprised by the performance you get. Not a Pentium, to be sure, but as quick as most of us need--unless you simply must drag-race computers (an understandable obsession, I suppose, in the dying years of a techno-crazy century). But, there is a "PC Chiplist" document (in several parts) posted at regular intervals to the comp.pc.ibm.hardware group (or whatever its go-for-barocco name is), and archived under that group at your nearest FAQ site. It will unveil the un-intel-igent truth about all these processors. Happy bit-blasting ========================= Michel Joly de Lotbiniere mjdl@interlog.com =========================