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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Am5x86/P75 WB caching...
Date: 20 Mar 1997 17:34:28 GMT
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sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) writes:

>FreeBSD works fine with writeback. Here's the boot info from a 5x86-133
>running in an ASUS PVI-486SP3 motherboard:

Not only that, but I have had great success on multiple occasions
with overclocking this chip to 160 MHz. FreeBSD doesn't say
anything different, but the BIOS does call it a 160. And if you
do the math, it is aparently about the same as a P90 (if it
scales that way). Not bad for the price. Go AMD!
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