Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:48:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Nathan Vidican" <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Vanwaesberghe Werner <werner.vanwaesberghe@imaware.be> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions about athlon motherboard choice Message-ID: <200101041848.NAA24373@mail2.wmptl.com>
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> I am looking for a new motherboard and would like to know if anyone has any > experience with the AK73Pro motherboard. > I would also like to buy a IBM GXP75 - 45 Gb harddisk and a AMD Duron > 800Mhz CPU. > > Are these components a good choice or ? > > All remarks and suggestions are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Werner van Waesberghe > > P.S. > If I am posting to the wrong mailinglist please let me know. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Personally, I've never heard of nor dealt with that MB. I've always had a preference towards IBM and/or Maxtor for ATA disks, but again, I havn't yet had the oppertunity to deal with that particular disk either, (though I plan to shortly). As far as the Duron CPU goes; I'd highly reccomend against it, for the few bucks difference go with the Athlon instead. There is a big performance difference from an 800mhz Duron to an 800Mhz Athlon. I'm currently running two Athlon systems as beaters before I put any into production; configuration as follows: Machine 1: AMD Athlon 700Mhz SLOT A Dual CPU Fans Three extra Case fans ASUS K7M MB Patched w/ newest Bios 128megs PC133 20Gig 7200RPM ATA Maxtor HD 16X DVD-Rom Drive Adaptec 2920 SCSI, (controlling several CD-Roms and an Iomega Zip) Machine 2: AMD Athlon 850mhz T-Bird, (Socket A) Gigabyte MB 128megs PC133 30G 7200RPM Maxtor HD Thus far (knock on wood) no problems with either machine. If all goes well, I'd like to have an Athlon running as a mysql server within the next month or so. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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