Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:38:08 -0500 From: "Patrick Seal" <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: <PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU> Cc: "FBSDQ" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: cpu upgrade, 486SX25 -> ?, feasible? Message-ID: <000501be1597$3ac84140$0200a8c0@asus.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <01J4FTA2XNHU00F0KR@DEPAUW.EDU>
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At http://www.ebay.com I found many 586 class mb for as low as $40. Of course they're used, but I have one and it's been working fine. You can also find a nice 166 cpu for a nice low price of around $40-70 too. Why do you need to upgrade the video card, is it onboard or something? You can get some decent ones for around $40 new, if you know where to look. Patrick Seal patseal@hyperhost.net Hyperhost Web Hosting and Design http://www.hyperhost.net > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU > Sent: Saturday, November 21, 1998 2:58 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: cpu upgrade, 486SX25 -> ?, feasible? > > > Hi - > > Due to various upgradings, a Zenith Z-Select 100, 486SX-25, has become > available for me to use 24/7 for FreeBSD. > > Do I need to say it, it's slooooooow, especially where it counts, in > compiling. I am mightily tempted to upgrade the cpu. I know > that bus speed, > disk access, etc. will be unaffected, but it's cpu speed (and > lack of fpu?) > that's really bogging things down. > > But - the only upgrades now available are to 586 class chips, > at this stage > of the cpu cycle, I assume that the upgrade chips offered are > cyrix, amd, > or similar. And the bios on this machine is not upgradeable, or > so I have > been told, by someone at a zenith [there being two (at least) > nowadays]. > The other didn't want to know. But is a bios upgrade really necessary? > I'm tempted to think that people must be making money from > upgrade cpus and > if they uniformly failed to work for bios reasons, they would > quickly fold. > > I do realize that the right thing to do is go with a new mb, > but that would > require at least a new case and a video card, not to mention > the new cpu. > At the moment that's too costly an option. > > Anybody gone the upgrade route? Any advice? And in the event it should > happen, is all that would be necessary before the swap is a to > beild a new, > appropriate, kernel? > > Thanks, > > Louis Smogor > > 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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