Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:46:49 -0800 (PST) From: Bernie Doehner <bad@wireless.net> To: Y u r i <ure@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Kingston TurboChip 400 K6-II 400 Mhz. upgrade CPU? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1001128073911.5947A-100000@wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <861365843.20001128094505@home.com>
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Thanks for your response. If this was stricly a FreeBSD box, I'd agree 100% since BSD doesn't have a fit when you change hardware on it, and wouldn't even have considered the Kingston TurboChip. But since Winblows is a requirement on this box, and Winblows blows big time when you change motherboard hardware on it, it would mean I'd have to reinstall winblows from scratch. Setting aside my strong dislike for Winblows, there is also the time factor involved in reinstalling everything from scratch. It literaly took me a full week (40+ hours) to get Winblows fully installed and mostly working. Most of this time spent chasing an obscure Win98 related bug which didn't let me run two IDE channels at the same time (and still doesn't). Bernie On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Y u r i wrote: > Hello Bernie, > > Monday, November 27, 2000, you wrote: > > BD> I am contemplating buying a Kingston Turbochip 400 upgrade CPU (that is > BD> based on a K6-II 400 MHz. core), for a dual OS (Windows/FreeBSD) box > BD> that currently is running a K6 233 MHz. with an Abit PX5 motherboard > BD> (so that I don't have to reinstall Winblows, because of new motherboard > BD> hardware). > > Sorry, not an answer to your question exactly, somewhat relevant info: > > K6-3 333 is $29 at Fry's, if your mobo supports it. It's a > "non-official" one, AMD does not list it, but it's real AMD K6-III > chip with 3.5 multiplier on 95 MHZ bus. It does not sweat 100 Mhz at > all :) and is very stable at x4. I just moved my multi OS hard drive > from older 266 P-II on PD440FX - it was too expensive to expand old > EDO RAM. They have a bundle at Fry's: 100 bucks gets you Soyo mobo > SY-5EMA+V1.1 (still in production), the K6-3 333 and an ATX case with > 250 W PSU, plus a heatsink with a fan. mobo has three RAM banks , each > accepts up to 256 MB sticks of SDRAM, high quality(?) 256 sticks are > 154 locally and 128s are $64. Mobo does three layered caching > automagically. > > (high quality for me is when you can mix 128/100 and 256/133 sticks > with AMD being overclocked a bit and AGP is not sweating either) > > -- > Best regards, > Y > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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