Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:22:35 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released Message-ID: <19970523142235.11747@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199705231702.KAA29056@george.lbl.gov>; from Jin Guojun[ITG] on Fri, May 23, 1997 at 10:02:59AM -0700 References: <199705231702.KAA29056@george.lbl.gov>
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Jin Guojun[ITG]: |Randall Hopper stated: |} So am I infering correctly that you have a K6-200 working under FreeBSD? |} That's good to hear. I've had my eye on this chip. | |Yup, in talking to ADM engineers, they try to convince me that K6 is P6 like |CPU, but can use socket-7 to run on a P5 motherboard. In the meantime, |Intel engineers told me that TX PCI chipset (latest Triton family) fixed |currency and memory speed conflict issue, and ASUS just made 97TX motherboard |to support K6 CPU. They all happened at same time. Well, how to know things |working without trying. I just picked up an ASUS P55T2P4 440HX MB, and have heard a number of reports of folks having good success running K6 on rev 3.0 & 3.1 of it (supplies the needed 3.1-3.3V). But before I even consider buying one, had to know it'd work on my preferred OS :-) ...Price still needs to come down a good bit more though; right now the P200MMX is looking better -- hopefully it also works well on FreeBSD. |and $10 for profit), but $5 for chip maker is a big deal. The point is P6 |will has a short life, and Pentium-II is the next one. Pentium-II |improves many things and has AGP inline. Could be. The big con to this setup that I've heard of (which I'll avoid as long as possible) is the proprietary CPU card interface. I'll vote for a solution that lends to more vendor competition given a choice. Thanks for the info, Randall
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