NS Geode (was: doc2000 geometry problem?)

NS Geode (was: doc2000 geometry problem?)

[Patrick Higgins]

John Halewood wrote:

> I'm yet another person trying to embed linux using the doc2000 on a
> NatSemi-based platform (Geode aka MediaGX - uck).

I've also been using a Geode and found it to have *horrible* performance
(~3-7 times slower than equivalent clock PIII).  Has this been your
experience as well?  My company is currently considering asking our
hardware supplier to use another CPU in their boxes, but we don't really
know what the good options are for systems which need to run without a
fan.  We have some AMD K6-2's 450s that perform quite well, but require a
fan, though I've heard that the 250s can be used fanless.  Has anyone had
some good (or bad, so we know what to avoid) experiences they could share?

-Patrick


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Re: NS Geode (was: doc2000 geometry problem?)

[Karl Pitrich]

Patrick Higgins wrote:
> 

> We have some AMD K6-2's 450s that perform quite well, but require a
> fan, 

a K6-2 400MHz running at 333MHz without fan but a passive hatsink will
do fine.
we did a linux core system for a distributor who is selling thousands of
them a year.
(btw: hardware ist from www.bcom.com.tw, WinNET IV)


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Re: NS Geode (was: doc2000 geometry problem?)

[Kira Brown]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Karl Pitrich wrote:

> a K6-2 400MHz running at 333MHz without fan but a passive hatsink will
> do fine.

The K6-3e is faster and dissipates even smaller amounts of power- a very
nice chip.  We're in the process of testing a board that has one of these
on it with a VIA MVP4 chipset.  Insane levels of integration :-)

kira.



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