Date: 05 Dec 1997 16:58 EST From: "Andrew Atrens" <atrens@nortel.ca> To: reg@csir.co.za Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, sos@FreeBSD.dk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr, mark@vmunix.com, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? Message-ID: <199712052325.PAA22536@hub.freebsd.org>
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My 2c, I've got a K6-200 and I'm sad to say this particular chip is not overclockable. Even with the big fan, grease, and huge-mother-heat-sink it still locks up. I can't say for sure that the lock-ups are attributable to overheating, but my old Pentium 150/75 combo ran solidly with the same mobo and PCI devices... apparently AMD is having chip-fab problems (refer to Tom's site), and I know that in my neck of the woods the chips are hard to find. Now, having said all of this, I am *very* pleased with the performance of this chip. And, when not overclocked, it does run cooler than a Cyrix. I second Jeremy's suggestion to reference Tom's site, its an invaluable resource. Again, just my 2c ... Andrew (opinions mine, not Nortels..) In message "Should I buy a Cyrix processor?", reg@csir.co.za writes: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 04:07:22AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Actually both 3.5 & 4 works on both my P6's :), it wont run 266Mhz though > > > but 240Mhz (4*60) works just fine ... > > > > I wonder which is actually faster in practice. 233/66 or 240/60. :-) > > On my P5-166: 225/75... > > couldn't get it to run with a 83MHz bus. This is an Asus TX97-E board. Very > nice piece of hardware for the quality concious low-end user. > > See http://www.tomshardware.com/ (was http://sysdoc.pair.com/) for a really > good write-up on overclocking and bus speeds. > > -Jeremy > > -- > .sig.gz >
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