[plug] Celeron vs Duron

[Garry]

I have recently upgraded to the Asus A7V m/board, T/Bird 800 and 128 Mb of PC 
133 RAM.

I intended to only buy a Duron, but the price was pretty close (within $50 I 
think), so I lashed out.  I didn't know if i needed the Athlon over Duron, 
but I can do without the nagging regret in the future.. (If there was any).

It really hums on Linux. Goes without saying, but performance has improved 
since I replaced the Pentium 233 MMX/64Mb RAM with the Athlon 800/ 128 Mb 
RAM... YMMV, but I doubt it!  :^)=

All the bits, (mid ATX case, A7V, Athlon 800, 128 Mb RAM and a 10/100 PCI 
card) came to ~$770. Think things are still getting cheaper. I bought the 
bits from Domain Technology in Royal St, just before christmas.

M$ has not been allowed on this system, so can't comment on windows 
performance. 
I have found no compatability problems at all. Still working on getting the 
GForce2 MX card working under Linux, but it will happen.

Quake 3 Arena for linux is available at various distributors for ~$40, I 
bought mine at the Linux shop in East Perth. (I think if someone is going to 
support Linux  in Perth, they are worth a look at least.)

Regards,

Garry