Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:47:24 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SMP, Intel PR440FX, cpu monitoring, etc Message-ID: <v04011714b1bff659e1b8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108649@OCTOPUS>
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At 11:08 AM +0100 7/1/98, Paul Richards wrote: > Does anyone actually know of sources of 200Mhz PPro chips since I > haven't had much luck finding any for the last few months! I just went to www.pricewatch.com, and found a number of places that at least claimed to sell them. The first place I happened to call (not the first place on the list) scared me off because without me even asking about it they said that they only have a 7-day warranty. The second place I called had them in stock, but then got confused when I asked what stepping level they were. They were going to call me back about that (the stepping levels), but never did. Or maybe they did, and I wasn't in my office at the time. I ended up calling www.atipa.com and ordering from them. This time I did not ask about stepping levels... :-) They were a bit more expensive than many of the sites I saw at www.pricewatch.com, but they had a three-year warranty. I don't really expect any problem with the chip, but a 7-day warranty seemed rather unsettling! In any case, the chip is installed (it took me more than seven days just to get around to installing it...), and seems to be working great. All total, it took me about three days to find a place to buy from, once I started looking. Two more days to get the CPU, and eight days before I got around to installing it. (I had to track down the compound to put between the fan and the CPU, for best cooling results). [apologies if this gets posted twice. I could have sworn I already posted it, but after moving a bunch of windows around I find that it's still sitting here, so I guess I'll try to post it again] --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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