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 at veldy.net> >Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >To: <tclug-list at 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 at veldy.net > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Chris Opp" <cop7586 at hotmail.com> >To: <tclug-list at 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 > > >_________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at >http://www.hotmail.com. > > > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org