Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:02:23 -0000 From: "P. van Leeuwen" <pvl@nanoteq.com> To: "'Howard Lew'" <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Mike Roth <miker@acm.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: AMD K6 Message-ID: <01BC9DBA.5F51DE50@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za>
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The one thing I've heard is that a make world breaks on the K6. It's a fact that they run pretty hot, so overheating might be a problem. I remember having the same problem with my old 486 when the fan wasn' working properly. Using an ATX motherboard may help, as the PSU fan blows over the CPU. If anyone knows about any real bugs, please tell me, as I'm in the process of buying myself a K6-200. I will probably also use a Asus TX97 board. Pierre P. van Leeuwen pvl@nanoteq.com http://www.nanoteq.co.za -----Original Message----- From: Howard Lew [SMTP:hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 6:11 AM To: Doug White Cc: Mike Roth; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Mike Roth wrote: > > > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 > > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with > > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the > > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . > > There is a discussion going on as to possible bugs in the K6 (and > potentially K5) that causes problems with FreeBSD. Uhhh... A think the K5 is pretty bug free. We have been using them since the early days with FreeBSD w/o problems at all. The only difference I can tell is that most users here use Asus motherboards; I guess I am one of the few who use PC Chips and FreeTech motherboards and have never seen any problems with K5 & K6 processors.
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