[plug] upgrading to Duronfrom Sabrina

[Richard Meyer]

Well, a blast from the past and a rave from the grave - anyone know how
it managed to escape from the archives?




On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 18:03 +0300, Sabrina Friedman 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.
> 
> 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
> >
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > 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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