From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 21:39:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CDC37B401 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=willow.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14FrVD-00031F-00; Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:39:24 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by willow.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5B35DA1; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 06:38:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 3E52412B50; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:47:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:47:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Aaron Hill Cc: Lawrence.Kreitzer@aa.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon Processors? Message-ID: <20010109004740.A2014@buffy.raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hillaa@hotmail.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:14:03PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:14:03PM +0000, Aaron Hill wrote: > >Hello People > > > >Is anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a system that is Athlon processor > >based ? > > Yes many people do. I run FreeBSD 4.2 on my workstation with this config... > > Athlon Classic 700Mhz > Epox 7KXA (first with the VIA 133 chipset) > 128MB 133Mhz RAM > 32MB Matrox G400 MAX > 20GB IBM IDE ATA66 > Noted here too :) .. but I have never seen the word 'classic' used for Athlon processors ? What other name may it have ? Cliff > ... and the system runs like a dream. No instabilities. CPU is recognised > properly as is the VIA chipset. I'm even using the PC 97 Audio feature of > the VIA chipset. > > >I am thinking about the Athlon Thunderbird processor and the k7T Pro2 > >motherboard ... > > I cannot vouch for your motherboard but I'm sure somebody else can. > > Actually about the only thing I can think to warn people about with the > Athlon systems is to make sure you get a better than average power supply in > your system. Exact specs are on the AMD site if you want to get them. > > Aaron Hill > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message