Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:17:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>, sos@FreeBSD.dk, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971204161632.292A-100000@trojanhorse.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199712042008.NAA12858@usr09.primenet.com>
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I had similar problems with a cheap asian motherboard that had default memory timings that a socket 7 system is probably not capable of. On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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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