From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 4 16:18:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA17785 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:18:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from trojanhorse.ml.org (n183.cs32e.value.net [209.24.62.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17775 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by trojanhorse.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA00299; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:17:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:17:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Terry Lambert cc: Mark Mayo , sos@FreeBSD.dk, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? In-Reply-To: <199712042008.NAA12858@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had similar problems with a cheap asian motherboard that had default memory timings that a socket 7 system is probably not capable of. On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I'd second that. I had a Cyrix 686 about 6 months ago, and I ended up > > throwing it in the garbage.. I had overheating problems, strange > > system lock-ups, etc, etc.. It might have been the motherboard, or just > > bad settings or something - but I tried everything and it just wasn't > > reliable. If you're going to do non-Intel x86, I think I'd recomend the AMD > > K6 over the Cyrix CPUs. > > We had that same problem on Sean Eric Fagan's machine. > > Until we set the motherboard voltage jumper correctly. > > After which the problem went away. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >