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Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 20:14:22 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel Pentium II released
Message-ID:  <19970529201422.16792@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <24270.864860713@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, May 28, 1997 at 04:05:13PM -0700
References:  <199705282115.OAA06476@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <24270.864860713@time.cdrom.com>

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According to Jordan K. Hubbard:
> BTW, I've just ordered a motherboard and 166Mhz K6 for the
> resurrection of thud.  I could have resurrected thud a couple of weeks
> ago, actually, but the idea of bringing it back as a 486DX2 just

I can now confirm the K6-166 does run at 2.5x 83 MHz. For an ASUS P/I
P55T2P4, you'll have to remove the jumper on JP20 to get 3.2V from the
regulator. With 3.2V (instead of the usual 2.9V for the K6), you can
overclock the K6-166 at 208 MHz...

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FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #13: Mon May 26 20:54:39 CEST 1997
    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr:/src/src/sys/compile/NKELTIA
Calibrating clock(s) ... i586 clock: 208818561 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193250 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
CPU: AMD K6 (208.82-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x561  Stepping=1
  Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 63729664 (62236K bytes)

dd/64k = 130.4 MB/s
dd/1m  =  74.6 MB/s

GENERIC kernel = 0:44.72 + 3:31.37 = 4:16.49

I gain 13% on kernel compiles, not too bad for a 10% clock gain.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #10: Fri May 23 22:47:39 CEST 1997



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