On 2003.10.17 15:12 Challison wrote: > Really???? I haven't had the opportunity yet to see Linux on an Athlon > 64!!! Pretty nice?? > I was thinking an Athlon XP 2600+ 333 the Athlon 64 3200 at ~$400 is a > bit out of the price range I intend to spend.....but I don't doubt that it > makes for a hot machine!! > The fastest P4 I could convince myself to buy would be a P4 2.26GHz 533 for > ~$160 but I'm thinking that the 2600+ might be close enough to justify the > cost savings. > Cleve > >
Ah, I have not seen an Athlon 64 running Linux either, but it is comming: http://www.lankum.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=245 http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/ http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3103154102.html http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4645 and it's got the 800 FSB that makes P4 look nice. It's out of my price range too. I have seen knoppix run on 2.4 P4 with 533 FSB on Asus. It was fast and I imagine the 800 would be faster still. You can get a 2.6 800 for $220 at tiger direct or a little more at Computer Heaven. How such things compare with Athlon these days is a good question for Shannon. Are you out there today Shannon? Am I all hyped up, or does that dual channel stuff work? You can get a 2600+ Thoroughbred with 333 for $100. For $200, you can get a 2800+ Barton 333 in the retail box with a fan and heatsink. Celeron is junk. I ran Knoppix on some low end Dells and was dissapointed. 2.2 GHz ran about like a 1GHz PIII. On the bright side, I did not expect it to run at all =:> Motherboards make a difference. I'm still happy with a cheapo 650 Athlon and Soyo set I bought 3 years ago, though the caps are all blowing up! I'm not happy with a 1600+ and Soyo Dragon I bought two years ago. The Draggon had all sorts of junk integrated on it. It's fast and all, but it stalls big time when writing larger files. Still, here I am drooling at a $800 Shuttle 64 case mobo and processor combo deal. Somebody, slap me.
