From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 8 20:12:53 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id UAA22715 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA22696 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id OAA06894; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:42:19 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612090412.OAA06894@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Amd (K5) 586 /133 In-Reply-To: <199612080358.WAA27217@oscar.cc.gatech.edu> from Carlos Ugarte at "Dec 7, 96 10:58:52 pm" To: cau@cc.gatech.edu (Carlos Ugarte) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:42:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Carlos Ugarte stands accused of saying: > > > I bought an A-Star (i430VX) mainboard and put in an Amd (K5) 133 MHz CPU. > > dmesg tells me 100.23 MHz. Who's cheating? You probably have the motherboard jumpers set wrong. > No one, really. I'm pretty sure AMD uses a similar "rating" > scale to Cyrix - the particular chip you have is called something > like a K5-PR133, where PR stands for Pentium Rating (or something > similar). It actually runs at 100 MHz, but its performance was > found to be "equivalent" to a Pentium 133 MHz. I don't think so. This is a 2.2 system with an AMD K5-PR100 : Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i586 clock: 100252689 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193485 Hz CPU: AMD Unknown (100.23-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x501 > How does it run? Any problems? These guys seem to run pretty well; certainly they're P100-feel. 8) > Carlos A. Ugarte cau@cc.gatech.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[