From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 13 23:35:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03467 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbes.saturn-tech.com (drussell@drussell.internode.net [198.161.228.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03456 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by hobbes.saturn-tech.com (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA18853; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:35:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:35:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: Ollivier Robert cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 In-Reply-To: <19970714030229.11506@keltia.freenix.fr> 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, 14 Jul 1997, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Josef Grosch: > Mine has been working for two months without interruption and survived > multiple make world. It is a K6-166 pushed at 208 MHz (2.5x 83 MHz). One > sink/fan on the CPU and a second fan above. Just out of curiousity, what voltages are you running it on? (And in what board?) Supposedly the K6 is QUITE power hungry. Perhaps we are seeing the regulator going funny in some of these cases. Has anyone measured the voltage at the chip with the thing running? I wonder if the voltage is dipping a little under load once in a while on some boards just because the regulator setup can't dish the current. It could explain why some need to up the voltage to make things work correctly (especially when overclocking, which would draw more power anyway....) Later......