Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:57:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fastest possible FreeBSD system? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970609185421.18686B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199706091807.MAA16841@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > >You can already run your PPro/200 at 233 MHz (3.5x 66 MHz) or more if your > >motherboard support it. > > this isn't necesarily true. *most* samples will work reliably at this speed, > but there is NO guarantee that any specific one will. Or that it might appear > to work, but cause obscure bugs. I would guess that we wont see any official True. Overclocking is not guarrenteed to work. > 233mHz PPros, now that the PII is available, and intel is struggling to make > the PII look attractive from a performance point of view. I thought the PII was intented to a consumer level product, while the PPro was the server/workstation product? The smaller cache, and new cost saving chip packaging seems to point towards targetting the consumer market. What about the difference between a PPro with 256k onchip cache, as opposed to 512k onchip cache? > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > > > > Tom
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