will hill wrote: >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? >
yep... I am out here. Struggling with NIS+ seerver problems etc. Anyway, I have been using Athlons almost exclusively now for a while. I have several boxes that have anywhere from XP1800 to XP3200. I find that the best bang for the buck is the XP2500 with the Barton core. Definitely get a "dual pack" from a vendor like mushkin.com. I have a gig of dual channel PC3200 from mushkin in one of my boxes. Gentoo flew on it during compiles. But, I don't really have a P4 box that I can conveniently compare with. > >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. > I swear by Abit motherboards. Since my AMD K6 and Intel Celeron 366 days, they have NEVER let me down. I have found them to be the most stable, reliable boards around (even on my old standby - a Celeron 366A clocked at 550. this was my server for YEARS and is now becoming my firewall). Although Super Micro is making some nice stuff lately. Anyway, my current home workstation is a AMD XP2500+ barton, 2x512 dual channel DDR PC3200, 120 gig drive, ABIT NF7 mobo (the nvidia chipset outperforms VIA, etc). My only bottleneck seems to be my older hard drive. the drive is a slower 5400 RPM drive with not much cache and it really slows things down. Shannon > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
