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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bryan Liesner <bleez@bellatlantic.net>
To:        spork <spork@super-g.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0/stable and Cyrix
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004200034050.397-100000@adsl-151-197-201-5.bellatlantic.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.10004192342530.23175-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, spork wrote:

>Hi,
>
>First of all, I'm really impressed with 4.0.  Very few problems on both of
>the home boxes I've tried it on...
>
>My one question is this.  I bought a cheapo ($250) E-Machines box with a
>Cyrix MII-333MHz chip.  Install was flawless, and it's been working great,
>but looking back at 'dmesg' I see that it thinks the processor is running
>at 250MHz.  BIOS reports it as 333 at startup (AMI winbios, btw).

Cyrix chips are "performance rated" - they don't actually run at
333.  The MII 333 is designed to run at 83Mhz external x 3 internal
multiplier = 249Mhz.  The performance is pretty close to the Celeron
333.

I'm running here flawlwssly with the same processor.


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= Bryan D. Liesner         LeezSoft Communications, Inc. =
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= bleez@bellatlantic.net   Home of the Gipper            =
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