From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Jan 10 03:19:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA06498 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:19:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA06493 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bsdscsi@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.4/8.8.3) id NAA27406; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:17:22 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199701101117.NAA27406@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: Can the P/I-P55T2P4 be overclocked? In other words does it support 75 and 83MHz bus speeds? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:17:22 +0200 (EET) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199701091541.CAA27446@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jan 10, 97 02:11:48 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > No! You're not paying attention 8) You want an _FX_ chipset > motherboard, specifically for the improved CPU-memory bandwidth. Even > the VX with all its corners cut is faster than the HX. Don't kid pardon? > yourself that the extra few MHz of PCI speed will make major > differences to your performance, particularly if it means that > you sacrifice CPU-memory bandwidth to get it. > > Spend some time looking for the real bottlenecks in the system rather > than trying to open paths that are already adequately wide. > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ is there something not commonly known here? since what i've heard tells that 430FX is much slower than VX and that HX is faster than either one when running at the "top" speed... there's relatively long memory and clock cycle stuff behind this... mickey