On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Matt Aylward wrote:
> 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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When are the dual boards coming out for the K7
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