From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 1:35:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tripos.com (gatekeeper.tripos.com [192.160.145.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F00737BA1C for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scoles@tripos.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tripos.com (8.8.8+Sun) id DAA28933 for <@firewall.tripos.com:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:35:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from unknown(172.20.5.15) by gatekeeper.tripos.com via smap (V5.5) id xma028661; Tue, 27 Jun 00 03:27:15 -0500 Received: from wolf ([172.20.152.220]) by tripos.com (980919.SGI.STAND) via SMTP id DAA79332; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:23:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <007e01bfe011$418ba580$dc9814ac@wolf.tripos.com> From: "Steve Coles" To: "Jamie Hermans" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: AMD K6/550 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:22:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW, I' running a K6-2 500 at 550 using 4.0-STABLE and have seen no problems. make world times under a loaded X are similar to Bob's below, hardware similar too (similar reasons too:( Most of the over-clocking and AMD issues that I have experienced/heard about seem to be due to MOBO / memory rather than CPU. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Hermans To: 'Bob Collins' ; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Date: 27 June 2000 02:24 Subject: RE: AMD K6/550 >I'm currently running one in my main server right now. It sits at a nice >comfy 35-40 degrees C ... jumps to 55 when FreeBSD is really working, but >has never failed or core dumped on me. > >As for performance ... my only "real" benchmark would be that a 4.0-STABLE >make world, running multi-user, a few perl scripts, apache, samba, etc. (the >usual stuff) takes between 1 hour 15 mins and 1 hour 45 mins. This on a >UDMA33 IDE drive (I'm too poor to afford SCSI) heh heh > >Take that for what it's worth I guess ... also ran a 533 over clocked to 550 >as well for a few months - same results, same lack of problems. > >Hope that helps ;-) > >... Jamie > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bob Collins >Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:19 pm >To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' >Subject: AMD K6/550 > > >I am interested in building a new system based on the AMD K6/550 processor. >Is anyone using this with FBSD, and are you satisfied with it's performance? >I am concerned about whether or not it will work and to what level. I am not >concerned with overclocking. > >TIA. >Bob Collins > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message