Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:57:35 -0500 (EST) From: PARADOX@DEPAUW.EDU To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cpu upgrade, 486SX25 -> ?, feasible? Message-ID: <01J4FTA2XNHU00F0KR@DEPAUW.EDU>
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Hi - Due to various upgradings, a Zenith Z-Select 100, 486SX-25, has become available for me to use 24/7 for FreeBSD. Do I need to say it, it's slooooooow, especially where it counts, in compiling. I am mightily tempted to upgrade the cpu. I know that bus speed, disk access, etc. will be unaffected, but it's cpu speed (and lack of fpu?) that's really bogging things down. But - the only upgrades now available are to 586 class chips, at this stage of the cpu cycle, I assume that the upgrade chips offered are cyrix, amd, or similar. And the bios on this machine is not upgradeable, or so I have been told, by someone at a zenith [there being two (at least) nowadays]. The other didn't want to know. But is a bios upgrade really necessary? I'm tempted to think that people must be making money from upgrade cpus and if they uniformly failed to work for bios reasons, they would quickly fold. I do realize that the right thing to do is go with a new mb, but that would require at least a new case and a video card, not to mention the new cpu. At the moment that's too costly an option. Anybody gone the upgrade route? Any advice? And in the event it should happen, is all that would be necessary before the swap is a to beild a new, appropriate, kernel? Thanks, Louis Smogor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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