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To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>
cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU,
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Subject: Re: AMD K6 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:24:34 -0700
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>
>On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Brett Glass wrote:
>
>> Have you tried the obvious controlled experiment: putting a Pentium into
>> the same motherboard?
>
>The problem is that there are still too many variables.  The K6 and a
>plain Pentium use different voltages, etc.  My best guess would be to try
>running the thing at a different voltage.  Several people have said they
>had to up the voltage a little to overclock the chip.  We might try
>bumping the voltage by .1 or .2 volts and see what happens.  Checking
>cooling never hurts, either.

   Did that, no difference. I also changed the motherboard to a different
kind...no difference.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project