On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Ben Boulanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I'm quite happy with my AMD Athlon boxes. > > I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have? > Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons?
I don't know that I would spend the money on a dual Athlon board. Does anyone really need that much power in a desktop system? OK, I can understand wanting it, but the Athlon MP chips are expensive, and so are the motherboards. The board that I am looking at is the Shuttle AK35GTR. I have read a bunch of reviews on it, and so far everyone seems to like it. Someone made a comment earlier about not being able to overclock Athlons,but this review of the AK35GTR seems to refute that (http://www.overclockersonline.com/?page=articles&num=124). Another thing that this particular board has going for it is that it supports everything from the Duron 500MHz through the AthlonXP 2000+. It also has four DDR RAM slots supporting upto 4GB of RAM. Most boards these days max out at three slots. > What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86? I'm currently using an ATI Radeon 64MB-DDR VIVO card, and it's been rock solid. I've been using ATI cards exclusively for the last 5 years, and I have never had a problem with X. Unless you count the Rage Fury MAXX card, which needs two configuration sections in the XF86Config because it has two CPU's and two separate memory buses. It worked, but it took forever to figure out how to get it running. C-Ya, Kenny ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
