RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake

[Doug McGarrett]

I am thinking about buying an Athlon motherboard.
I would welcome comments (goor and bad) about the 
ones out there.  I would probably run 800MHz.  I 
would like to have at least one ide socket for my
sound card.  Please advise if you have good/bad to
say about any particular boards.

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At 13:59 07/22/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
>> I have had complaints from customers about the fact that mandrake is
>> compiled for the Pentium class systems when using an Athlon. 
>have heard some things about, and they were chipset dependant, was the K6-3,
>and that concerned the On-Chip L2 Cache and the resulting speed performance. 
>Since AMD dropped the K6-3, there _may_ be some substance to those
complaints;
>however, I have had reports of flawless multiyear performance from K6-3s as
>well.
>