Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip
hi ya
> > I'm in the market for a new computer and plan to run potato. The last
> > time I bought a box for linux, I bought a cheap system and found the
> > on-board sound & video chipsets weren't supported.
usually newer boards are the ones not supported...
unless were talking 3-5 yrs ago when the number of
x11 drivers and nic drivers are far less
> Currently running woody (2.4.17) on
> - an ASUS A7V266 (Via chipset w/ Promise 20265 ATA/100 IDE) running
> 1GHz Athlon-C
> - an ECS K7S5A (SiS 735) running Athlon XP 1600+
soyo's Dragon series are good ... you can overclock them puppies
1Mhz at a time... 1500+ overclocked to 1700+
they now starting to have onboard nic and onboard svga for amd cpus !!!
> They are definitely hot, but since you are getting a case from
> Coolermaster, you know the importance of temerature.
just shipped a P3-1.0Ghz machine with no fan on the cpu... just its
original heatsink ... and 40mm fans on the side... nice and cool
compared to when you have fans fighting for air in them 1Us...
c ya
alvin
> I bought the ECS from http://www.micronux.com, which I found at
> http://www.linux.org/vendors/systems.html.
>
> > This time, sound and video are non-issues -- the system will act as a
> > personal server more than a workstation. I'd like to go ahead and get
> > a fairly powerful AMD chip, though -- from shallow research the
> > Athlons seem to be very good values.
> >
> > http://web.archive.org/web/20010923184323/www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/linuxguide12/4.shtml
> >
> >
> > However, this comment from Red Hat
> >
> > AMD Athlon compatible motherboards. The new motherboard architecture
> > being used and the cutting edge technology often implimented in the
> > chipsets can create problems during the installation. Red Hat Linux
> > may or may not install properly on a Athlon compatible motherboard
> > according to its components.
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/intel/62/rh6.2-hcl-i.ld-2.html
> >
> > has me all nervous (as does reviewing that the Duke of URL's review
> > was for a systel with a 2.4 kernel). Searching through the last 6
> > months of the mailing list didn't signal anything to me about how to
> > choose the motherboard/mainboard.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a site with reviews of recent cpu and mainboard
> > reviews linking them to any linux kernel limitations?
> >
> > Would anyone know whether
> > AMD 1400MHz Athlon Thunderbird Processor (266MHz FSB)
> > and
> > (AMD) Asus A7M266 AMD-761 Motherboard (DDR DRAM)
> > would work well with a 2.2 kernel?
> >
> > TIA, very very much,
> >
> > judith
> >
> > PSs:
> >
> > Why that particular config? Because i'm looking at prebuilt systems
> > that come with the ATC-210 Aluminum Tower Case by Coolermaster. So
> > far, I've only found hypersonic-pc.com offers that.
> >
> > http://kachinatech.com/'s configuration system has been down for a
> > while and they don't specify what mother board they use with their
> > Debian installed systems.....
> >
> > i miss thedukeofurl.org -- old reviews can be still be studied at
> > http://web.archive.org/web/20010802153901/www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews.shtml
> >
> >
> > http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/?pagename=details&hid=293
>
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