From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 13:36:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CF737B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12346; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:36:02 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:36:02 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Charles Burns Cc: , , , , , , Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote: > > > myself) that some of the latest Athlons of series AXIA and AZIA are > >labelled > > > at around 1500MHz. > > > > I heard someone actually got one of the AXIA's to hit 2Ghz, don't > >know the truth to that one though. > > Ya, with liquid nitrogen cooling. :-) > That doesn't really count though. If you've got those kinds of > resources--screw Athlons, get an 8-way P3 Xeon 4MB system or the like. Haha, I wished I got those kinda resources. I'm actually trying to build the new machine at home in my apartment and space is a issue. Wasn't one of the companies that Tom's mentions called Kyrotech or something always boosting the AMD's to the max? > 1500MHz is with normal cooling and often without even upping voltage. > Hmm, if you can do that you can probably up the voltage by .2 or so and run > at 1700 or 1800. Your CPU might be as hot as the surface of the sun, but > hey, buildworlds would be quick. Nah, I doubt it'll be as hot as the surface of the sun. Maybe it'll be like a Viking range or something. > >Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ > > Wow--a technically competant executive? Are you hiring? :) Nah, I wish... There are 4 of us and even though we founded and own the company, we still can't afford a single employee. I guess the ISP business is hard especially in Hawaii even though I am technically in San Francisco. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message