From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 15:13: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF2D37B6DB for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 136h29-000HUZ-00; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:07:13 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 136h29-000BfO-00; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:07:13 +0100 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:07:13 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Bob Collins Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD K6/550 Message-ID: <20000626230713.G57917@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Za/SMm3KZ11Dkftj" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Za/SMm3KZ11Dkftj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bob Collins wrote: > I am interested in building a new system based on the AMD K6/550 > processor. Is anyone using this with FBSD, and are you satisfied with > it's performance? I am concerned about whether or not it will work > and to what level. I am not concerned with overclocking. I don't see why it wouldn't -- the 350, 400, 450, and 500 all work fairly well. I've just had a 500 system panic (page fault) but that might be down to dodgy RAM. Also the 450 kept locking up hard, but that might have been the faulty CPU as it's been replaced by a 500 and it hasn't happened again yet. Generally they're not bad, but I'd probably use an Athlon if I could afford it. I'd also use ECC memory and a motherboard which supported it, that's a bit pricy too. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --Za/SMm3KZ11Dkftj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: dk3DLUx0515A+xJ86rf2r7VEQI45CXHM iQCVAwUBOVfUECsPVtiZOS99AQGBeAP+LqLi8ofI9IMnQgF7bPcu2mws8wwhtynP WLmoKmbLs2nt3riF+/l2UEqSrx11sOT9Fc+MvyUDmsYGmjMhrjPwBfttLAnYYSx6 jkDT4ZWz1kOt6O9dhtoaqWC2rw4JgsL52JirQGVP2ZWv6MbFA6+OyjGJchK8vegs 6mZeTgAFNpM= =HZHf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Za/SMm3KZ11Dkftj-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message