[rescue] Octane R10K/175 CPU module available

[Rob Fielding]

jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:15:00AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> 
>>How would you "upgrade" an R10 to an R12?  There are differences
>>other than cache, correct?
> 
> 
> The short of it (find information elsewhere and do at your own risk) is
> you just do a CPU swap and rearrange some SMT resistors that set the
> clock multiplier.  
> 
> See the hardware discussion forums on nekochan.net (beware gratuitus
> anime women), specifical threads started by a guy going by chicago-joe.

I fear the cut off point is the 200MHz R10K. The clock on the sub 200 
Mhz processors, or the tolerance's of the other components just isn't 
upto the job, and there's mention of fried motherboards....



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