Greg Youngblood wrote:
> Thought I'd jump in here at this point...
>
> > Well, will it be worth the difference? Will one Athlon really be so much
> > faster than two Celerons, and will you actually notice it in common
> > applications? (SNIP)
YES. I trust you will be doing more than compiling your kernel.
> Personally, I'm sold on the Athlon. I had to return the mobo and processor I
> used on my testing, but I'm going to get another one. My only complaint --
> the Athlons want 300 watt power supplies. Actually AMD has a list of
> 'approved' power supplies. That and the FIC SD11 mobo didn't have a standard
> ATX configuration.
Asus K7M now available. PC Power & Cooling 300W TurboCool is $99.
> > > Go for the Athlons!
> > > They have 100 MHz DRAMs (like normal PIII), but have a memory-bus
> running
> > > at 200 MHz. Within a couple of month there will be mainboards available
> > > which use 133 MHz RAMs, so the membus runs at 266 MHz. So you can expect
> > > a speed-improvement for your system only by changing motherboard and
> RAM.
>
> I believe the memory bus has the ability to run up to 200 MHz FSB, just like
> the Alphas. However, if you load it with 100mhz memory, it will run at 100
> mhz. If you use PC-133 memory, you'll need to make sure the mobo will
> support 133 fsb (the SD11 would need a bios upgrade to support pc-133 memory
> at 133 mhz). I do not believe the memory bus runs at 2x the memory, I think
> that 200mhz figure is the max. speed of the FSB.
I'm surprised there has not been more discussion of the "200 MHz FSB". I
believe it refers to the memory bus being able to use DDR-SDRAM (Double Data
Rate SDRAM - data on both rise and fall of a clock cycle) when it becomes
available in Dec.
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