On Monday 31 Mar 2003 2:29 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:53, Anne Wilson wrote: > > This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in > > it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from > > scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing �500 to get > > a full decent system together. If I buy this for �50 I can get away by > > putting in the current drives and spending nothing else. But will it run > > Mandrake? > > > > Anne > > Anne, > > I've got a 733mhz Via C3 cpu on a second box here at home. The only > "problem" with it is the one mentioned in the MDK 9.0 errata. Otherwise > everything on the mobo came up and worked like a charm. I wouldn't use > this box for gaming but for everything else it compares nicely with an > equal Intel or AMD CPU. In fact it runs better under Linux than under > Win2000 so there's a plus. > Thank you James. It's looking good to go. I just hope he hasn't sold out by the time I can get to him.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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