From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 9 18:59:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA29649 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA29640 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wbGBm-0004sO-00; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:57:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:57:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Steve Passe cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fastest possible FreeBSD system? In-Reply-To: <199706091807.MAA16841@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > >You can already run your PPro/200 at 233 MHz (3.5x 66 MHz) or more if your > >motherboard support it. > > this isn't necesarily true. *most* samples will work reliably at this speed, > but there is NO guarantee that any specific one will. Or that it might appear > to work, but cause obscure bugs. I would guess that we wont see any official True. Overclocking is not guarrenteed to work. > 233mHz PPros, now that the PII is available, and intel is struggling to make > the PII look attractive from a performance point of view. I thought the PII was intented to a consumer level product, while the PPro was the server/workstation product? The smaller cache, and new cost saving chip packaging seems to point towards targetting the consumer market. What about the difference between a PPro with 256k onchip cache, as opposed to 512k onchip cache? > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > > > > Tom