Re: Athlon XP and Debian
Tom Penharston wrote:
I'm building a very affordable Agnula/DeMuDi machine. I based my
choices roughtly on recommendations from the Agnula website:
http://www.agnula.org/Members/charles/hardware/view
The page suggested the Asus A7N8 Delta, and I ended up with the
A7N8x-E. I just need to get an Athlon XP CPU. Here are some exelent
benchmarks for Athlon XP CPUs, unfortunately the tests are restricted
to Windows XP:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030513/athlon_xp-22.html
Obviously it would be convient to find some Debian benchmarks for
Athlon. If not Debian, any Linux kernel benchmarks would be
apprciated. Please direct me to any helpful sites.
All Athlon XP CPUs are relatively affordable in 2005, so you might be
wondering why I don't simply get the "3200". Well, for one, Tom's
Hardware says that the Athlon XPs turn into paper tigers at the top of
the line. (The performance increase is marginal.) Secondly, I noticed
that the 3200 disapates a lot of heat. This is an audio machine, so
I'd be happy with a lesser CPU if I could run cooler and quiter.
Interesting. In the affordable category I see that the ASUS A7N8X-E
(which you got), the A7N8X-X and the A7V8X-X at NewEgg cost respectively
$90, $65 and $50. (have not checked eBay) So the first is almost double
the price of the last.
They get the same very high 4/5 customer ratings.
For that difference you get the same Socket A AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron
Processor support, but:
1. In the first 2 cases 400 front side buffer speed, in the last 333.
2. In the first 2 cases nForce2 chipsets, in the last VIA.
3. For the A7N8X-E dualchannel ddr400 RAM, for the second one ddr400
non-ecc unbuffered RAM, for the last one ddr333 non-ecc unbuffered RAM.
4. For the first case Pro-AGP 5 PCI slots and Wi-Fi, the second one 5
PCI slots and the last one 6 PCI slots.
5. Audio for the first 2 is Realtek ALC650 and the last ADI1980.
6. Lan for the first 2 Realtek 8201BL and the last Realtek 10/100.
7. Only the first has onboard SATA/RAID.
I am also in the market for a new mobo+cpu. But I wonder. If you want
onboard SATA/RAID and WiFi the choice is clear. But what is the real
difference running Sarge in a non-gaming environment between
fsb400+ddr400 and fsb333+ddr333 (no LAN, no SATA, no RAID) if you use
the same CPU?
And how much does the audio difference depend upon the speakers?
I run (Backstreet) Ruby: 2 monitors/videocards/keyboards/mice on 1 PC
and I am convinced 2.4.29 runs faster than 2.6.9 (which is contested on
its forum), and what would the difference in mobos do? Guess we'll never
know.
Hugo
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