whoa. Celerons are whatever bus speed you set them to (not 66). I see no reason
to buy a PIII when I can very reliably over clock a celeron processor. I have 5
Celeron SMP machines all running FreeBSD. They are celeron 300a OCd to 450
running on the Abit BP6 MB. Never a problem. I even have a pair of 366 Mhz chips
overclocked to 550. My 4.0 Current machine is a dual celeron 450.
please reference
http://www.sharkyextreme.com
http://www.arstechnica.com
for info on overclocking. Abit boards are the defacto standard for over
clocking.
Sean.
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Douglas Kuntz wrote:
> As others have stated, Socket370 boards arent all 810/810c...my 4.0-Current
> machine was, until last week, a Celeron 366 Socket370 on a Shuttle 440LX
> board. Though, as far as I can tell, if you're going to use a Celeron PPGA
> chip, save money and go with the LX or Via chipset based boards, and use the
> saved money on ram or a larger harddrive. Celerons are all 66mhz bus
> speed...though, Intel has said they plan on releasing Socket370 Pentium IIIs
> in 2000.
>
> Though, on a sidenote, I really see no reason on getting a 100mhz Socket370
> board to run a Pentium III on later, when, except for the clock speed
> increase, a P3 is the same as a P2 with just the addition of SIMD
> extensions, which I dont think FreeBSD uses yet.
>
> Douglas Kuntz
> Editor
> PC Tech Reports
> http://www.pctechreports.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garrett Wollman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 2:23 PM
> Subject: Intel 810?
>
>
> > I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following
> > claim:
> >
> > > All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip
> > > set which does not support FreeBSD because 16MB of the motherboard
> > > memory is used for the display controller. There is no way to tell
> > > the FreeBSD kernel not to use this memory so it will corrupt data.
> >
> > I find this statement rather dubious. Can anyone out there say with
> > more certainty?
> >
> > -GAWollman
> >
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