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. ========================================================== = Bryan D. Liesner LeezSoft Communications, Inc. = = A subsidiary of LeezSoft Inc. = = bleez@bellatlantic.net Home of the Gipper = ========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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