From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 5 15:25:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA22544 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:25:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from bcarsde4.localhost (mailgate.nortel.ca [192.58.194.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA22536 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:25:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atrens@nortel.ca) Message-Id: <199712052325.PAA22536@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from bcars520.ca.nortel.com (actually 47.128.5.188) by bcarsde4.localhost; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 17:01:47 -0500 Received: from bnr.ca by bcars520.bnr.ca id <18108-0@bcars520.bnr.ca>; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 17:00:49 -0500 Date: 05 Dec 1997 16:58 EST To: reg@csir.co.za Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, sos@FreeBSD.dk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr, mark@vmunix.com, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Andrew Atrens" Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My 2c, I've got a K6-200 and I'm sad to say this particular chip is not overclockable. Even with the big fan, grease, and huge-mother-heat-sink it still locks up. I can't say for sure that the lock-ups are attributable to overheating, but my old Pentium 150/75 combo ran solidly with the same mobo and PCI devices... apparently AMD is having chip-fab problems (refer to Tom's site), and I know that in my neck of the woods the chips are hard to find. Now, having said all of this, I am *very* pleased with the performance of this chip. And, when not overclocked, it does run cooler than a Cyrix. I second Jeremy's suggestion to reference Tom's site, its an invaluable resource. Again, just my 2c ... Andrew (opinions mine, not Nortels..) In message "Should I buy a Cyrix processor?", reg@csir.co.za writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 04:07:22AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Actually both 3.5 & 4 works on both my P6's :), it wont run 266Mhz though > > > but 240Mhz (4*60) works just fine ... > > > > I wonder which is actually faster in practice. 233/66 or 240/60. :-) > > On my P5-166: 225/75... > > couldn't get it to run with a 83MHz bus. This is an Asus TX97-E board. Very > nice piece of hardware for the quality concious low-end user. > > See http://www.tomshardware.com/ (was http://sysdoc.pair.com/) for a really > good write-up on overclocking and bus speeds. > > -Jeremy > > -- > .sig.gz >