Great response time guys!!
Thanks to all of you for the help,
Sounds like the athlon is the way to go. My own reading around the hardware
sites on the net was leaning me that way, but not being very SMP savvy I wasn't
sure. The athlons sure make my mouth water and I notice the linux 2.3.35 kernel
has an athlon choice in the cpu config and 3DNow! kernel support so at least
single processor athlon systems are supported.
My local enquiries so far have not come up with a dual athlon capable mobo,
that would be out of my price range anyway, (I can still dream though).
Does anyone have the good oil on athlon mobos, I was thinking of the ASUS K7M.
Any other preferences. That is a bit off topic I guess.
Thanks heaps,
matt
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, Chris Pirih
wrote: > At 11:08 AM 01/05/2000 +0000, Matt Aylward wrote:
> >I am preparing to buy or build a new computer and would like some advice.
> >The basic question is: Which would give me more grunt per $, a dual celeron 500
> >or an AMD Athlon 600 single processor.
>
> My single K7/500 seems way more than twice as fast as my single
> Celeron 366. I'd say go with the K7. I'm already drooling in
> anticipation of the dual K7 mobos....
>
> (I can provide results for any benchmark that's reasonably easy
> to obtain and run. I have Linux and Win98 on both machines. I
> also have a dual P-II/350 with Linux and NT for comparison --
> that may actually be a reasonable alternative if the parts are
> still obtainable. P-II 450's are less than US$100 now, and 440BX
> dual P-II motherboards seem to go for about US$150.)
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