Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 02:06:12 -0400 From: Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> To: Ted Sikora <tsikora@home.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010901020122.00c2be38@rfnj.org> In-Reply-To: <3B8F79C0.D4781D1B@home.com> References: <Your message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:12:50 EDT." <5.1.0.14.0.20010831024941.00c3fe18@rfnj.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20010831044409.00c26c38@rfnj.org>
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At 07:49 8/31/2001 -0400, Ted Sikora wrote: >There's always going to be incompatabilities between boards what works >on one won't on another even with supposedly identical components. I use >nothing but AMD Slot-A/Socket-A/K6 with VIA and ALi chipsets on FreeBSD. >After disabling APM in the kernel when the microtime error first >appeared I have had zero problems. In fact I can't ever remember having >such stable machines like I enjoy now. I agree 100% my AMD based machines have been rock solid since day one. Unless something drastic happens soon, I'll never buy an Intel CPU again. My "newest" Intel CPU is a P-133 in an old laptop I have here. Aside from that, I have a P-120 desktop running as a secondary name server. All the rest of the boxes on my network are AMD. 2 K6-2's, 1 Slot-A athlon, and 5 Thunderbirds. Some (most) run FreeBSD, some run windows, but they're all free of hardware problems. All the AMD systems save one are VIA chipsets as well, and I haven't ever had any of the problems described here.. there may well be issues with APM, but I never use it, so I wouldn't notice those. The Athlons run under full load pretty much 24/7 thanks to a mess of servers running on some, windows on others, and seti@home on all of them. -Allen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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