From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 17:34: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6279237B4C5 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from c996775-a.vncvr1.wa.home.com ([24.16.193.228]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001128013344.QPKM14040.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c996775-a.vncvr1.wa.home.com>; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:33:44 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:45:05 +0000 From: Y u r i X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.47 Halloween Edition) Personal Reply-To: Y u r i X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <861365843.20001128094505@home.com> To: Bernie Doehner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Kingston TurboChip 400 K6-II 400 Mhz. upgrade CPU? In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Bernie, Monday, November 27, 2000, you wrote: BD> I am contemplating buying a Kingston Turbochip 400 upgrade CPU (that is BD> based on a K6-II 400 MHz. core), for a dual OS (Windows/FreeBSD) box BD> that currently is running a K6 233 MHz. with an Abit PX5 motherboard BD> (so that I don't have to reinstall Winblows, because of new motherboard BD> hardware). Sorry, not an answer to your question exactly, somewhat relevant info: K6-3 333 is $29 at Fry's, if your mobo supports it. It's a "non-official" one, AMD does not list it, but it's real AMD K6-III chip with 3.5 multiplier on 95 MHZ bus. It does not sweat 100 Mhz at all :) and is very stable at x4. I just moved my multi OS hard drive from older 266 P-II on PD440FX - it was too expensive to expand old EDO RAM. They have a bundle at Fry's: 100 bucks gets you Soyo mobo SY-5EMA+V1.1 (still in production), the K6-3 333 and an ATX case with 250 W PSU, plus a heatsink with a fan. mobo has three RAM banks , each accepts up to 256 MB sticks of SDRAM, high quality(?) 256 sticks are 154 locally and 128s are $64. Mobo does three layered caching automagically. (high quality for me is when you can mix 128/100 and 256/133 sticks with AMD being overclocked a bit and AGP is not sweating either) -- Best regards, Y To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message