Roger Hayter wrote: [snipped] Socket 7 systems are so old that there ought to be a K6/2 @ 500MHz or more or a K6-III+ @400 or more to be had near you for between $0 and $25 or so. My P2A-B has a K6/2-500. Any K6* of 400HMz or more should add enough performance to get around several problems. IIRC, that Cyrix CPU only supports a FSB speed of up to 75 MHz, while those K6 chips will all do 100 on the P5A-B. Next, Socket 7 systems were originally designed to depend on motherboard cache for RAM. I don't remember if the Ali chipset does better than most, but I doubt it supports cache for all 512M. I do remember my K6/2-550 was considerably slower on benchmarks with 384M than with 256M on a Tyan S1590 Trinity @ 100 MHz FSB (Via MVP3 chipset). The cache on a K6-III+ chip gets around any shortage of motherboard cache, and can usually be run at 50-150 MHZ above its official rating.
So, the OS might be slow and have problems that need a solution, but a cheap or free CPU upgrade should go a long way to alleviate some pain. Have you run a RAM checker like memtest86? Does the Linux actually find all 512M? I thought Socket 7 chips were limited to 384M. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
