On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Well, since so many people seem to discourage the use of Athlon CPU's, here's my
> affordable alternative...
>
> Take a look at the specs for the Abit BP-6 mobo. It's a dual socket 370 (Celeron
> only) motherboard with a built in PCI ATA/66 channel on top of the standard
> ATA/33 one (meaning you can throw in 8 IDE devices). The motherboard is only
> slightly more expensive than a generic PII mobo (or at least it was when I
> bought it) and the cost of an extra celeron CPU is really not much of an issue.
What is an issue is this--currently manufactured Celeron Processors have NO SMP
pins. This board was made for the "disabled" pin processors; therefore, CPU
supply might be a problem.
> > I have a computer running on this for like 4
months now, and I have no problem > with it whatsoever, except for the fact
that it sometimes hardlocks in X, but I > guess that must be some sort of
problem related to some hardware > incompatibility, or some kernel
misconfiguring on my side. >
> And _do_ be careful when picking a video card for the box you're buying
> (regardless if you're willing to go with this mobo, or an AMD-based one); don't
> make the same mistake I did when buying a TNT-2 instead of a Voodoo-3. Although
> the TNT-2 is superiour in hardware-terms, 3dFx's superior drivers (and nVidia's
> lack of even remotely acceptable drivers) kind of reverses that situation when
> gaming under linux.
Very good advice
>
> Now, what can I say about my box? Well... It runs 2 seti@homes permanently, and
> still has the horsepower to let me work in X comfortably. I can still throw in a
> resource-hungry app without even noticing it, where a single CPU machine would
> simply choke on it. Now all I need is more RAM so I won't hit as much swap when
> doing heavy stuff on my machine.
>
>
> On Feb 24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
BTW
www.tcu-inc.com custom builds Athlon CPU systems to order for L-M
(preinstalled).
And I don't work for them.<g>
Civileme
