From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 10 14:54:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA09310 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09302 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:54:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA13484 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org); Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:53:01 +0100 Message-Id: <199601102253.AA13484@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:53:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: Dmitry Kohmanyuk "anyone there using AMD's 133MHz chips?" (Jan 10, 18:31) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: dk+@ua.net Subject: Re: anyone there using AMD's 133MHz chips? Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 10, 18:31, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: } Subject: anyone there using AMD's 133MHz chips? } are there any problems/opinions on them? It is worth to choose them } over 120MHz ones? (i.e., time make world on both) Well, I just rebooted my ASUS SP3G after doing a close examination of its internals, with the goal to find out whether the AMD 486/133 (also known as AMD 5x86) will work. Guess it will do! AMD seems to have gone back to Intel conventions regarding the positions of CLKMUL and WB/WT pins. Only difference is, that the 2x/3x jumper becomes a 4x/2x jumper now :) According to some reports I read, the 5x86 is not significantly faster than the 486DX4/120, but it has the advantage to work well on PCI only mother boards, which prefer a 33MHz bus clock (and don't like a 40MHz clock at all :-) The 5x86 seems to be available at some $129 single quantity. Didn't ask for a DX4/120 price, since that chip can't be used in my system ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se