Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:58:34 -0400 From: Chris Peltier <CPELTIER@iectech.com> To: "'P. van Leeuwen'" <pvl@nanoteq.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: AMD K6 Message-ID: <97Jul31.094624edt.6196@netgate.iectech.com>
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We have the Shuttle Hot-565 motherboard. It
sports a K6 clocked at 233MHZ and the TX chipset.
Everything runs perfect. Make world is fine. The
system is unbelievably fast. We are running
FreeBSD 2.2.2 without a hitch.
Sincerely,
Chris Peltier
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>From: P. van Leeuwen[SMTP:pvl@nanoteq.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 10:02 AM
>To: 'Howard Lew'; Doug White
>Cc: Mike Roth; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: RE: AMD K6
>
>
>The one thing I've heard is that a make world breaks on the K6.
>It's a fact that they run pretty hot, so overheating might be a
>problem.
>I remember having the same problem with my old 486 when the fan
>wasn' working properly.
>Using an ATX motherboard may help, as the PSU fan blows over the CPU.
>If anyone knows about any real bugs, please tell me, as I'm in the
>process
>of buying myself a K6-200. I will probably also use a Asus TX97 board.
>
>Pierre
>
>P. van Leeuwen
>pvl@nanoteq.com
>http://www.nanoteq.co.za
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Howard Lew [SMTP:hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 6:11 AM
>To: Doug White
>Cc: Mike Roth; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: AMD K6
>
>On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Mike Roth wrote:
>>
>> > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6
>> > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with
>> > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the
>> > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org .
>>
>> There is a discussion going on as to possible bugs in the K6 (and
>> potentially K5) that causes problems with FreeBSD.
>
>Uhhh... A think the K5 is pretty bug free. We have been using them
>since
>the early days with FreeBSD w/o problems at all.
>
>The only difference I can tell is that most users here use Asus
>motherboards; I guess I am one of the few who use PC Chips and
>FreeTech
>motherboards and have never seen any problems with K5 & K6 processors.
>
>
>
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