Re: AMD K6 experiences with Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
29 May 1997 17:35:03 GMT

Followup to: <19970528223710.04978@math.fu-berlin.de>
By author: Felix von Leitner <leitner@math.fu-berlin.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Well mine works fine, although I had to buy a new motherboard for it. I
> had an ASUS board, too, now I'm using Iwill.
>

I'm using an ASUS TX97-E, and it is working just fine. There seem to
be a substantial number of faulty K6 chips out there, and Linux seems
to be *very* good at detecting the faulty ones. If Linux crashes your
K6 machine at its rated clock speed try to take the chip back. The
flipside is that the chips that *do* work seem to often be
overclockable.

-hpa

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