Re: [TCLUG:22519] Athlon and Linux

[Kent Schumacher <kent@structural-wood.com>]

The Durons don't do all that badly, but they are slightly slower.  There
is a very complete benchmarking report on Tom's Hardware that compares
the Duron, Athlon, and TBird.

After reading it and seeing the minimal price difference between families
I went with the T-Bird (800Mhz Athlon for $190).

Kent



Chris Opp wrote:
> 
> 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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