Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 20:08:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.dk, grog@lemis.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? Message-ID: <199712042008.NAA12858@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19971204134503.49496@vmunix.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Dec 4, 97 01:45:03 pm
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> I'd second that. I had a Cyrix 686 about 6 months ago, and I ended up > throwing it in the garbage.. I had overheating problems, strange > system lock-ups, etc, etc.. It might have been the motherboard, or just > bad settings or something - but I tried everything and it just wasn't > reliable. If you're going to do non-Intel x86, I think I'd recomend the AMD > K6 over the Cyrix CPUs. We had that same problem on Sean Eric Fagan's machine. Until we set the motherboard voltage jumper correctly. After which the problem went away. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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