On Saturday 18 November 2000 19:05, Leon Brooks wrote:
| Khawar Zia wrote:
| > I was thinking of buying AMD and wanted to know how it performed under
| > linux compared to Intel? Is it slower or is the performance about the
| > same?
|
| About the same. All of my own machines are AMD (even the 486SLC40
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I guess it is IBM 486SLC40, no? It was very nice, enhanced 386SLC which at
some time IBM decided to rename to 486SLC (as performance was comparable to
486sx level, it had extra cahe comparing to 486sx)
Wow, it's really cool if you get reasonable performance from Linux on such
box !
As about AMD.
Taking into consideration 1.2GHz Athlon with DDR memory and 266MHz FSB, I'd
really recommend it. I am not sure if AMD 760 chipset is supported under
Linux, may be kernel gurus will tell you more.
Probably 760 chipset can run in 750-compatible mode, so you can live with
Pentium-III/Pentium-4 level performance until 760 is supported natively.
Next speed increase you will get when gcc 3.0 is out and packages are
recompiled with it and Athlon optimizations.
My brother runs Linux Mandrake 7.0 on K6-2 without any problems.
| gateway, uh, box... which isn't actually *in* a box, but I digress), as are
| all of those at one of my favourite workplaces. Many others are Intel. The
| only ones I've ever had trouble with are Cyrix and WinChips. OTOH I have
| some users who are Cyrix and quite happy, including one using a Cyrix chip
| in a total PnP motherboard (he just plugged the chip in and turned it on,
| no jumpers to set anywhere, and it's been going fine ever since). I have
| not had any long-term WinChip users, let alone happy ones. WinChips
| *suck*bigtime*.
I would agree that Cyrix and WinChip can't be recommended.
But, Cyrix is owned by VIA now, VIA can make from it pretty sweat processor
later on. And don't forget Transmeta with Linus behind ;-)
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