[plug] upgrading to Duron

[Mike]

Interesting,

How much was it and where do yah get it ?

Rdgs

mike


At 10:18 PM 30/6/2035 +0800, you wrote:
>I have recently bought a 1Ghz Athlon (266Mhz FSB) and i look around at a 
>lot of reviews for boards. I ended up buying a MSI K7T Turbo which is a 
>very nice board. In a recent pc at uthority mag it scrored 6/6 for every 
>aspect. I highly recommend this board.
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>At 08:55 PM 30/06/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>>I have the KT7A-Raid and I am very happy with it. Have been running it for
>>the last 3 months or so. It is a very good board and had 4 ide port so you
>>can put 8 IDE drives into it. All in all it is a very nice board.
>>
>>Christian
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>> > > I want a Duron and motherboard as I have the rest ready to go.  I'm
>> > > looking for some advice on:
>> > > 1) What speed chip to buy.  Of course higher is better, but I remember
>> > > reading that there was an increase in FSB speed between two models.
>> > >  Anyone know what I am talking about?
>> >
>> > Darrell
>> >
>> > I have a Duron 850 Abit KT7 combination as suggested by Scott.  Both the
>> > board and the
>> > chip are well priced.
>> > And as suggested I bought extra RAM with the money I saved.
>> >
>> > This board also supports the the 266Mhz core in the Athalon Thunderbird
>> > if you have the
>> > dosh to go that way later.
>> > If thats what you mean about the different FSB speeds.  The Duron only
>> > comes in the 200Mhz flavour.
>> >
>> > Has been running about 2 months I'm pretty happy with it.
>> >
>> >
>> > Mark
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>> > > 2) What motherboard I should buy, but I should be asking which chipset
>> > > works best with Linux?
>> > > 3) Anyone had any problems/gotchas using AMD chips/chipsets?
>> > >
>> > > Hope someone can help.
>> > >
>> > > Regards
>> > >
>> > > Darrell
>> >
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