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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:41:30 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Andrew Reid" <andrew.reid@plug.cx>, "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: overclocking and freebsd
Message-ID:  <001501c16ccf$02df4020$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011113190955.C1004@plug.cx>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew Reid
>Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:40 AM
>To: Cliff Sarginson
>Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 07:51:13AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>
>> So cheap ? Can anyone explain why, at least in Holland, a 1Mghz Pentium
>> III costs significantly more than a 1.4 pentium IV ?
>> Is a puzzle to me...
>
>1GHz PIII is more expensive than a 1.4 PIV here in Australia
>too. It seems to be a plot by Intel to make us buy the new PIV,
>forcing us to purchase new motherboards and all kinds of other evil
>stuff that is just too nasty to go into :-)
>

The only chip I'd buy that story on is the old Intel Pentium 200
_non_ MMX chip.  There were lots of machines manufactured that
could be jumpered to 200Mhz with non-MMX chips but not with
MMX chips because the MMX chips used a lower power voltage.
Intel saw fit to stop production on the 200 non-MMX P200 chips
thus ending the life of numerous P133 and P166 systems years
earlier. :-(  Fortunately they do come up from time to time on
Ebay.

Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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