Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:00:18 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium "upgrade chips" Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.970115234934.7853A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701160302.WAA01450@spoon.beta.com>
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On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I was just flipping though my latest copy of Micro Warehouse catalog, and I > noticed (not the the first time) CPU upgrade chips that claimed to be > dropping "Pentium Processing Power" in to a 486 socket. Average cost was > about $110, and all of the vendors made reasonable claims to speed > improvement. > > I'm curious to find out if anyone has used them with a FreeBSD > enviornment, and how they worked out. We tried one. Wouldn't get far enough into the boot sequence to begin to load any OS off the drive on two motherboards. On a third it would only boot if the external cache was disabled, making it slower than the 486DX2-66 it, briefly :), replaced. Wanna buy it? ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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