From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 4 12:09:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA23470 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:09:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA23444 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:09:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04019; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:18:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd003993; Thu Dec 4 13:18:39 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA12858; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:08:40 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712042008.NAA12858@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? To: mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 20:08:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.dk, grog@lemis.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19971204134503.49496@vmunix.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Dec 4, 97 01:45:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.