From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 11:33:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22826 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (root@persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22813 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id NAA32343; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:17:56 -0500 Received: from dave.ppi.com(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma032341; Wed Jul 30 14:17:48 1997 Message-ID: <33DF8540.9A5F1507@persprog.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:17:36 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, sam@persprog.com, dave@persprog.com Subject: Re: K6 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199707300511.WAA06073@MindBender.serv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. Check out the back > >issues of freebsd-hardware at: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/mailing-lists/archive/ > >for more information. > > Or rather, there is the potential for problems. There are some who > claim to be using them without any problems. And there are some who > are not able to make them work well at all. > Maybe the problems are related to one (or more) of the following: - Switched vs. Analog regulators (analogs may not have enough current while switched can be noisy). - 2.8 vs 2.9 V core on the K6 200 - Electrolytic Caps! (I'm sorry - I couldn't resist.) - Different K6 "revisions" (does anybody have some hard facts on this one?) - Different BIOS revisions (not just K6 support, but working K6 support). Or maybe they just suck. I sure hope not since the price cuts are still moving along on both Intel and AMD parts. I'm not sure if Intel would be so aggressive in its pricing without AMD nibbling at its toes :-) For those who don't already know - Intel yesterday cut their CPU prices an average of 50% while AMD announced a 55% reduction. Competition is great for consumers. -- FreeBSD may have a daemon, but Microsoft has the Devil himself -- Anon. David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com