On Thursday 18 April 2002 04:05 am, Baka Attila Tamás wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I'm planning to change my hardware from intel to AMD and I'd like to know > your experiences. I've seen an AMD system crash because of motherboard > problems and I do not want any problems (AND I do not want to use M$) > > The configuration I chose is: > > Motherboard: FastFame8VTAA(VIAKT133A,3SD,UDMA100,AGP4x,AC97Sound,ATX) > CPU: AMD K7 ThunderBird 950MHz SocketA > RAM: 256 MB SD RAM 133MHz > > I think it should work fine. Does anyone know about the Motherboard? > > Also: With an AMD system, which rpm packages should I use? i386, i586, i686 > (I guess not) and even if they are not optimised, will they work? > > Thanx, > > BAT
BAT: There was a poll several months ago at the Mandrake Forum to determine which processors Mandrakers were using. Over 4200 persons responded; over 62 per cent used AMD processors. You can see the detailed results here: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/pollBooth.php?op=results&pollID=21&mode=&order=&thold= FWIW, the last time that I used an Intel CPU at home was back in 386 days. At work, though, it's been Intel. About the only difference that I ever noted was running AutoCAD, where the Intels did do a better job with floating point computations that was only apparent when doing solid model displays. That difference may have disappeared with the latest Athlon CPUs. The Thunderbird can run any level code from 386 on up -- no problem. According to what I've read on this list, there isn't much advantage to using the 686 compiles. Sorry, but I am not familiar with the motherboard you mention. -- cmg
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