Re: [TCLUG:22519] Athlon and Linux

["Chris Opp" <cop7586@hotmail.com>]

I guess then that one of the only differences other than the obvious slot to 
socket configuration is that the athlons have more L2 cache than the durons. 
Slashdot has an article about AMD coming out with a dual slot A motherboard 
using the new AMD-760MP chipset. So I wonder then are the Althons going to 
be reserved for performance workstations and possibily servers, and durons 
for PCs? Not that it really matters, but how do the Durons benchmark against 
the Athlons?


Chris


>From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
>Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
>Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22519] Athlon and Linux
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:54:48 -0500
>
>No problems, except since you need to buy a new mainboard anyway, you 
>should
>upgrade to a Socket A instead of a Slot A.  The CPU will be a little 
>cheaper
>and the board has a better upgrade path.  Socket A goes beyond the 1 Gig
>level and Slot A is limited to 1 Gig.  I just upgraded my board to the ABIT
>KA7-100 (Slot A) because I intended to keep using my old Athlon 600, which
>was slot A.  I have been using it with Linux and FreeBSD for over a year
>without a problem.
>
>Tom Veldhouse
>veldy@veldy.net
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Opp" <cop7586@hotmail.com>
>To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 9:15 PM
>Subject: [TCLUG:22519] Athlon and Linux
>
>
> >
> >
> > I have been thinking about adding some more horsepower to my linux box.
> > Upgrade from a k6-2 400 to a whopping 900Mhz Athon slot A.... Has there
>been
> > problems running these motherboards and CPUs with Linux? It's kinda 
>funny,
>I
> > hardly use my windows box anymore. Maybe I should change it over to
> > linux....
> >
> >
> > Chris Opp
> > Building Block Computers
> > 
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