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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?

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Tom




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