Re: [vox-tech] athlon questions
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Re: [vox-tech] athlon questions
i thought about an alpha for a brief moment, but my machine will be playing
games quite a bit. not the least of which would be quake3 and UT. :)
pete
On Fri 05 Jan 01, 6:01 PM, George Thomas Finch said...
> My two cents. Correct me if I am wrong. But AMD does ot makes a chip that
> supports SMP. We will have to wait for their successor to the Athlon, which
> will incorporate a new design, being two cores on one die (or something like
> that). If you want to run two processors in one box you will need to stick to
> Intel.
> Or buy an Alpha....:)
>
> --George
>
>
>
> > > Hi Pete,
> > > I'm considering building a Duron system within the next month. I really
> > like ASUS boards, but they don't make dual CPU boards. (At least I don't
> > think so.) I've built 2 Athlon systems already, both using ASUS boards
> > and they rock. One board, the K7V uses the KX-133 chipset & has a K7
> > Athlon in it. The other board, the A7V, uses the KT-133 chipset & has a
> > Thunderbird in it.
> >
> > PC-133 memory is a nice addition but not needed. In order to experience
> > significant performance gain in these chipsets, PC-133 capable of CAS2
> > latency is needed. You can find this only in high-quality memory, but you
> > can still find this at less than 50 cents a MB. I am about to order 256MB
> > sticks from from a Florida website. Wanna split the s&h charges?
> >
> > There are newer mobos coming out for the Athlon with ATA-100 built-in.
> > The A7V mentioned above has a Promise ATA-100 controller on-board in
> > addition to the regular ATA-33/66 main IDE bus, so I think it can support
> > 8 drives altogether (altho I haven't tried it nor does the docs say
> > anything about that).
> >
> > A couple notes I fuzzily remember is:
> > 1. I don't think any boards beside some OEM boards support the newer
> > 266MHz K7 front-side bus.
> > 2. ASUS boards are one of the best manufacturers to overclock on, but it
> > depends on the particular board you get (whether you get some extra
> > jumpers). However, since I don't have money to burn, I haven't OC'd any
> > of mine.
> >
> > This is my 2 cents with Athlon systems. Anyone else?
> >
> > FL
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >
> > > i'm considering building an athlon system. i've fallen completely behind on
>
> > > modern x86 technology.
> > >
> > > what manufacturers should i be looking at for high quality athlon motherboar
> ds?
> > > are there dual athlon mboards yet?
> > >
> > > i assume ECC133 ram is needed for an athlon?
> > >
> > > anything else i should consider?
> > >
> > > pete
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> George Finch
> finchgeo@pilot.msu.edu
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