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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 1997 01:33:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com>
To:        hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        jfarmer@goldsword.com
Subject:   Re: AMD K6
Message-ID:  <199708090533.BAA28545@sabre.goldsword.com>

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On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 21:40:40 -0700 John Milford said:
>Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.com>  wrote:
>> How does FreeBSD see it? As a 686? As a 586? Does it work? Are there
>> problems?
>>
>	There seem to have been very mixed reviews.  I had some
>problems with spontanious reboots early on, but found this was linked
>to having a linear voltage regulator.  The K6 draws 7.5 Amps according
>to AMD and this is enough that you must have a switching reulator.  I
>have a K6/200, and it has been flawless for the past week although
>because of a flacky motherboard (Yes I have proof) it has been running
>w/ no external cache.  I got the board replaced w/ an ASUS P55T2S4
>today and I am planning to report back on it after running for a
>while.  BTW, even without the 512k external cache it was pretty snappy.
>

This is good news!  Please, by all means, let us know how it works
out.

Hmmm, perhaps I can hold off on some of these new servers for a week
or so....

John

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