lotsa people having trouble with K7s nowadays. I don't buy the altitude argument. I buy the "K7 mainboards are poorly engineered" argument, personally, given my trouble with K7s on four different motherboards at this point. I also have a friend with a 32-node cluster with conventional BIOS and K7SEM mainboards -- it has frequent strange memory system problems that look like "flaky mainboard".
PIII looks better all the time. ron ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:50:25 +0800 Subject: Re: bummer! I met another guy today with K7's that crash when doing heavy numerical computations (like mine). His a Tyan boards. Also Duals. His motherboard is the newer "tiger" board and mine is the previous (which was new when I bought it) "thunder" motherboard. his are 1.6Ghz mine are 1.2Ghz. I think its the altitude. lower air flow plus lower thermal transport. I keep mine in a refrigerated room so its not the input air temperature. The output temperature is quite warm. --
