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From: "Jon E. Kump" <jkump@cyberusa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AMD-K5 P133
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:25:16 -0600
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Rostyslav Cisyk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I am thinking about upgrading to a QDI P5I430VX-250 motherboard with
> AMD-K5 P133 chip. Did anybody have any problems with a similar configuration
> running FreeBSD2.1.6? Will I get a true Pentium-133 performance with this chip
> under FreeBSD?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rosty.

Yes you will.  Actually you probably will get better performance becuase
the AMD chip is faster than the Intel version.

Cheers,
  Jon Kump