From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:24:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:24:05 -0400 Received: from math.uci.edu ([128.200.174.70]:21662 "EHLO math.uci.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:24:01 -0400 From: Eric Olson Message-Id: <200109071723.KAA03673@math.uci.edu> Subject: Some experiences with the Athlon optimisation problem To: heinz@auto.tuwien.ac.at Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: ejolson@math.uci.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Oops, it should be "Core" Temperature not "Case" Temperature below. The AMD Athlon Processor Model 4 Data Sheet summary on page 71 also made this typo and I blindly copied it. --Eric >Dear Heinz Deinhart, > >>The old Athlon reads: >> A1133AMS3C >> AVIA 0115TPAW >> 95262550081 >> >>The new (non working) one: >> A1200AMS3C >> AXIA 0121RPDW >> 95987660990 > >The first line can be decoded using AMDs documentation at > > http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon/techdocs/index.html > >In particular > > A 1133 A M S 3 C > | | | | | | | > | | | | | | \___ FSB (B=200, C=266) > | | | | | \_____ Size of L2 Cache (3=256K) > | | | | \_______ Case Temperature (S=95C, T=90C) > | | | \_________ Operating Voltage (M=1.75V, P=1.7V) > | | \___________ Package Type (A=PGA) > | \______________ Speed in MHz > \__________________ A for Athlon > >Anyone know what the second line means? It is quite mysterious >that the word VIA appears on the chip that works with VIA KT133A >and not on the other :-) > >Have you tried Robert Redelmeier's new program burnMMX2 which has >the 3DNow streaming cache bypass load/store instructions that seem >to be causing all the trouble? > >Does it run indefinitely or terminate with the 1133MHz processor >configuration? What about for the 1200MHz processor with kernel >optimization turned off? > >--Eric >