Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks

budn3kkid writes "Seems like Upgradeware have a new gadget out for those overclockers looking to upgrade their age old Athlon mobo (KT133, KT266 etc.) with a spanking new AMD Barton CPU. Also, saw an article at ol' Tom's about it right here as well."

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check this out - magic?

[intelligent poster]

Go to babelfish, and paste in the URL where you get the error message (its here) . Choose Japanese to English and hit translate. Presto, you get the article (complete with pics even). Is this some kind of sinister tie up between upgradeware and altavista to draw traffic to them? Food for thought. And as an aside, I would like to know why that is happening, because I am unable to figure it out.

Re:Ha!

[DaveAtFraud]

Oh, cone on now! Funny, as in, "Funny, I don't have any problem with my Athlon based system."

[dave@spindle ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1468.501
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2929.45

[dave@spindle ~]# uptime
19:28:43 up 20 days, 20:31, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.08

Unfortunately, the better example isn't an Athlon:

[dave@fraud ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 551.260
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips : 1101.00

[dave@fraud ~]# uptime
7:30pm up 110 days, 43 min, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00