Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:27:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970529120835.17322A-100000@hobbes.saturn-tech.com> In-Reply-To: <199705282115.OAA06476@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * I still can't overclock it at 2.5x 83 MHz. Only 2.5x 75 MHz works with the
> * K6 whereas it worked at 2x 83 MHz for the P133.
>
> That is quite normal. Intel is known to have more slack in their
> chips' specifications in terms of pushing it to the limit than their
> competitors. (Whether that's good or bad, I won't say. :)
This isn't *necessarily* true. (Although it may be for many of the newer
chips.) If you look at 486-class CPUs, I can't run my Intel DX2/66 chip
anything higher than 66 Mhz or it won't boot. On the other hand, I have
a couple of AMD-133 chips running at 150 and 160 Mhz... The one that runs
FreeBSD as a communications server, web server, mail host, etc. etc:
hobbes:/home/drussell {3} uptime
12:19PM up 74 days, 14:44, 8 users, load averages: 0.56, 0.32, 0.43
hobbes:/home/drussell {4} uname -a
FreeBSD hobbes.saturn-tech.com 2.2-BETA_A FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Fri Mar
14 00:37:04 MST 1997 drussell@hobbes.saturn-tech.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/
HOBBES i386
Hmm... My uptime is even getting up there. Nifty. :)
Later...... <Doug>
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