On Wednesday 14 Nov 2001 14:39, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > Fellow Cookers, > > I am planning to build an AMD Athlon-based Linux PC. I am planning at > this point to use the Giga-Byte GA-7DXR. Has anyone on the list used > it? > > Matthew Pitts
Yes, I've been using the GA-7DXR since July, after lightning struck my PII-40 box. It did have a 1.4 GHz T'bird Athlon, but that fried a couple of days ago after the heatsink dislodged. Now I have a 1.6GHz XP, which only runs at 1.05 GHz because my FSB is 200 - if I ever upgrade the DDR RAM to 266 I'll have the full speed, as you can select any system speed between 95 and 150 on the GA-7DXR (FSB = 2x this setting). With this setup the processor runs at 42.3°C, whereas the T'bird ran at 70°C+ until I got a better heatsink that cooled it to 62°C. It's a very good motherboard. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk-pnr-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk. KDE: 2.2.1. Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime 0 hours 53 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------
