From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 20:58:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA00707 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (pa2dsp7.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA00697 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA07940; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00:18 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: "Brian J. McGovern" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium "upgrade chips" In-Reply-To: <199701160302.WAA01450@spoon.beta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I was just flipping though my latest copy of Micro Warehouse catalog, and I > noticed (not the the first time) CPU upgrade chips that claimed to be > dropping "Pentium Processing Power" in to a 486 socket. Average cost was > about $110, and all of the vendors made reasonable claims to speed > improvement. > > I'm curious to find out if anyone has used them with a FreeBSD > enviornment, and how they worked out. We tried one. Wouldn't get far enough into the boot sequence to begin to load any OS off the drive on two motherboards. On a third it would only boot if the external cache was disabled, making it slower than the 486DX2-66 it, briefly :), replaced. Wanna buy it? ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------