Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:36:02 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: <seanp@loudcloud.com>, <jgowdy@home.com>, <lplist@closedsrc.org>, <kris@obsecurity.org>, <mwlist@lanfear.com>, <freebsd@sysmach.com?>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104201031300.2710-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <F70jYn5VSSFcl3impge000057f1@hotmail.com>
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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
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