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| 2763.1 | 100% compatible. | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Sun Jan 26 1997 15:54 | 11 |
| The AMD K5 chips (Not the 5x86 stuff), are always compared as TRUE
Pentium class chips. They are 100% pin-pin compatible, and software and
cache compatible. Cyrix chips have always been odd-balls, and somewhat
different, but these AMD's are direct replacements.
IMHO based on what I read, the AMD K5 is a direct replacement
for any Intel Pentium. No special/different BIOS changes needed. (The
only rumour I read is the Floating-point performance is slightly less
than Intel's).
Mark
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| 2763.2 | some problems | CSC32::J_MANNING | | Mon Jan 27 1997 14:25 | 8 |
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I have seen at least a few reports on Usenet of apps that would fail
with an AMD K5 chip but work when a Pentium chip was installed. They
seem to be mostly games that are written for Verite 3D accellerator
cards. It looks to be a DMA problem.
John
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| 2763.3 | | BSS::PROCTOR_R | Sniffing the floral arrangement | Mon Jan 27 1997 19:50 | 14 |
| my .02 is:
I have had a chance to save a few $$$ on AMD or Cyrix; and am currently
writing this on a PODP [Intel] OverDrive chip.
due to the previous .2 replies, and "stuff failing occasionally" due to
cache, dma, etc errors, I decided to stick with the Intel and it's
warranty; which if DMA serves me correctly is 5 years, far beyond the
life of this box...
See the note elsewhere in this or the ::DECSTATION conference, you can
order a PODP as a reseller for pretty darned cheap.
again, my .02
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| 2763.4 | Seems OK to me. | WOTVAX::SHARKEYA | LoginN - even makes the coffee@ | Wed Jan 29 1997 15:25 | 5 |
| A friend has a K5 75Mhz processor. It seems fine and about as fast as a
120Mhz Pentium (eyeball speed checks!!_
Alan
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| 2763.5 | Works great | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Travis Sawyer | Tue Apr 01 1997 14:49 | 11 |
| Greetings:
I know that this is a little late in coming...
I have an AMDK5pr100, I upgraded in November '96 and have had no problems
(knocking REALLY hard on wood) since my upgrade.
Are the K6 chips out yet???
Travis
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 2763.6 | K6 today... | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Wed Apr 02 1997 15:06 | 1 |
| K6 announced today...
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| 2763.7 | I went for AMD | SPOOKS::BOSKLOPPER | | Sun Apr 06 1997 01:34 | 6 |
| After all your inputs I bought an AMDk5/100 and works fine. Only
when booting the bios gives me for cpu type some garbage,but for
the rest it works great.
Ben
Palo Alto CA
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| 2763.8 | Smile be happy... | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Mon Apr 07 1997 13:17 | 14 |
| RE: -.1
Clear indication that the motherboard does NOT directly understand the
AMD parts. If you bought as a combination/package, then the vendor
should swap for a newer MB.
If not bought as a package, the MB maker might have a newer FLASH bios
image for the MB to recognize the AMD chips.
If it works, and there are no other diagnostic problems, (cache
utilization and performance is OK?), then live and let live! Smile be
happy!
Mark
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