Michael,

That mean your system clock is 100MHz and a 5x multiplier is being used for
the cpu.  Your ram should be 100 MHz capable.

BTW, I checked several pack rats and they don't have any memory that would
woork for you.  I will keep my eyes open.

On 11/29/06, Michael Havens <bmike101@cox.net> wrote:
>
> lshw says that my hd is 38 GB and that my processor is clocked to 100Mhz.
> It also says that the size of it is 500Mhz
>
>       *-cpu
>            description: CPU
>            product: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
>            vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>            physical id: 4
>            bus info: cpu@0
>            version: 5.8.12
>            slot: Socket 7
>            size: 500MHz
>            width: 32 bits
>            clock: 100MHz
>            capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
> pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:48:47 -0700, JT Moree <moreejt@pcxperience.com>
> wrote:
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> > Michael Havens wrote:
> >> I know overclocking the processor is bad but I was thinking that it
> >> might
> >> be underclocked. How do I see this?
> > not neccessarily bad.  not needed with modern systems being rather but
> > some people just like to push the limits.
> >
> >> things are slugish. Perhaps I should overclock the processor since I
> >> rarely start those pss and things would start quicker thereby reducing
> >> the
> >> use of the processor. What do you think about this idea?
> >
> > since you have a k6-3 i don't recommend overclocking.  Those procs were
> > already clocked pretty high bc amd was playing catch-up with intel.
> >
> > I do agree with other posters about the bus.  get the bus speed up as
> > high as you can where the system is stable.  Some of the k6 cpus even
> > used 75Mhz and 83Mhz bus speeds as a standard.  That's about as high as
> > you can hope for.  What's your processor speed?
> >
> > Be careful though, some systems and components from this era don't like
> > running at those bus speeds.
> >
> > And get a faster hard drive if possible but that probably means spending
> > money and that's a no go for this system.  Better to put $$ towards a
> > new one.
> >
> > And lastly you can always install gentoo so that you optimize code for
> > k6 instead of running 386 code.  How big is your hard drive?
> >
> > - --
> > JT Morée
> > PC Xperience, Inc.
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