On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote: > If you're upgrading your motherboard for other (various) reasons, I'm > quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes. They're cheap, they're good. I > will tell you that you need to pay attention to the heatsink. I recently > burned up an older 1.33G of mine while I was swapping it into a different > box and (oh, how I loathe to say it) installed the heatsink backwards > (there's a little lip to match the socket's lip - wrong side... doh).
Ibid. and amen! I'd've thought, based on previous CPU installation experience, that "if the heatsink fits, it must be on right." Well... no. Miraculously, while I got *both* heatsinks on the dual-CPU m/b on backwards (I was careful to duplicate the orientation on the second one), only one actually cracked. Be careful. Insofar as DDR vs. SDR, well.. while I "believe" [faith w/o proof] in DDR more, what's even more important than what kind of RAM is having -enough- RAM. Try to make sure that you're hitting swap as little as possible; while one kind of RAM may be somewhat faster than another, -all- of them are orders of magnitude faster than going to swap. $.02, -Ken ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
