Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 21:04:02 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Brian Campbell <brianc@milkyway.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium II? Message-ID: <19970730210402.22190@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <199707301817.LAA05450@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Jul 30, 1997 at 11:17:51AM -0700 References: <19970730123613.03490@milkyway.com> <199707301817.LAA05450@phaeton.artisoft.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Jul 30, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
> > Actually the 266Mhz P5/MMX has already been announced for early next year.
> > www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwo/0723/pcwo0005.html
>
> Actually, these are the same people who said I could get a
> 486 DX/2-100, and thus convinced me to buy my 486 DX-50.
> ^ ^
> | |
> NOTE NOTE
>
> My 486 DX-50 still beats the snot of of a P5 DX/2-66, and is
> more than fast enough (EISA bus overclocked to 50MHz) to handle
> a lot of stuff that early P5 machines couldn't.
>
> Nevertheless, I remain pissed that I can't get a 486 DX/2-100
> and leave my bus speed up at 50MHz.
The AMD 5x86-133 is designed for 4*33Mhz, but was successfully
used with 3*40MHz in many systems (and slighlty faster that way).
On the other hand, it can safely be over-clocked to 4*40MHz,
and I'm quite sure it wouldn't mind being run at 3*50MHz :)
So, if you want to give it a try ...
At 3*50 it should be about as fast as a P-100 (under FreeBSD,
with non-Pentium optimized binaries as created by the stock gcc).
Regards, STefan
PS: If you really want to overclock an AMD 5x86, try to get the
ADZ version, which can be used with no heat sind or fan at
133MHz ...
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19970730210402.22190>