Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:56:16 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey), smp@csn.net, FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU heatsinks Message-ID: <199611151956.LAA27483@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 15 Nov 96 07:04:31 -0800. <199611151504.HAA25257@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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>> > >Oh, one other thing, b4 you do appply it record ALL the numbers & wordage
>> > >you see on the top of the chip (& bottom while your at it). As you will
>> > >be helping with the SMP kernel we may want to know these for checking
>> > >against errata sometime in the future (you did volunteer to walk on the
>> > >bloody edge, didn't you?)
>> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:
>> > >From what I've seen, the top only says "Intel Pentium Pro". All the
>> > important information is on the bottom (stepping, speed, cache size,
>> > etc.).
>On the Pentium and Pentium PRO all the good stuff is on the top, on
>later Pentiums they have duplicated it on the bottom as well, just for
>your and my convienence :-)
"On the ... Pentium PRO all the good stuff is on the top"
This is an incorrect generalization. On MY Pentium Pro, all the "good
stuff" is on the bottom. The top only says "Intel Pentium Pro".
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