From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 19 12:33:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11270 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from portal.spi.net ([199.238.225.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11265; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:33:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@MindBender.HeadCandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by portal.spi.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA28906; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:33:13 -0700 Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA16463; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:33:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606191933.MAA16463@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix and AMD chips In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 19 Jun 96 08:16:15 -0400. <199606191216.IAA24229@shell.monmouth.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:33:10 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'd love to go to the AMD 586 -- anyone have any experience with these >in older motherboards with the Voltage Regulator sockets? That's what I'm using. I have an EISA motherboard, and they never considered the market big enough to update the BIOS even for 486DX4s. It seems to be working OK for me. You might want to double-verify with who you buy them from that you could swap the VRs and chips for 486DX2/66's just in case it doesn't work out, though. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------