On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > bought a K62-500 instead.
> > Considering the fact that I managed to totally mis-match the board and
> > chip, it has been a remarkably wonderful processor. Winflop is unstable;
> > Linux won't install - but the chip never fails. Now I'm looking at the ASUS
> > PA-B (baby AT)to replace the board I just installed in a new AT tower.
> > Any suggestions?
Well based on all the reviews I looked at, the Epox MVP3G2 was the
most highly rated (there was a Tyan also highly rated for
speed/overclockability but Epox had the advantage where stability
was concerned). My windows box has a k62-500 on that board and is
problem free. My Linux box has the older, highly rated/popular,
VA-503+ with a k62-300 which has also treated me well.
Interesting note, people talk about the instability of windows but,
with both those boxes, I haven't noticed. Oh I get the occasional
program that just dies (like Netscape under Linux) but I cannot
remember the last time windows crashed on me. Admittedly I've never
run windows 24/7 or run servers, Perl and other stuff I do with Linux
but that's why I got into Linux.
