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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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