I have recently done a very simular upgrade from a AMD K6-2 450MHz to an Athalon +2200. I had no problems with Windows but find that somethings still don't work in Linux. Maybe it depends on the versions. I am using XP and Mandrake 8.0. Just a side note... Dan B
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:11:22 -0600 Joeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the Christmas holiday, I decided to upgrade my old 500Mhz AMD > K6-2 system. I had purchased a PC-Chips 810LR motherboard and AMD > 1200 Mhz Duron from EconoPC for $70.00. If you are not familiar > with this board, it only has two PCI slots, 1 AGP slot and on-board > LAN, sound and VGA. It is based on the Sis730S chipset and > supports AMD Duron through XP processors. My decision to use this > board was also influenced by my aging Voodoo Banshee video card. I > simply did not have the money to order a new CPU, motherboard and > video card and I couldn't see buying a new motherboard/cpu and > still using the old video card. So, while it may not be suitable > for heavy duty server use, with only two PCI (and an AGP) slot, for > desktop and development use, it works quite well (particularly if > you are on a very limited budget). > > After installing the system board in the case, I connected my > existing CD-ROM, Hardrives and floppy to the motherboard > connectors. I was curious as to what would happen if I simply > powered the computer on, and so I did. I dual boot, so first I > tried Windows. It would not boot, except into safe mode, and > failed to even find the second IDE controller (it was still using > the old driver files for IDE and video). To my surprise, booting > into Mandrake 9.0, everything came up great, except for X-Windows > (which I didn't expect it to). A quick reconfigure of the X-Server > for the new video and everything was running normal. I was really > impressed that Mandrake found all the new devices and reconfigured > itself so smoothly. > > I had already decided that I was going to reformat the drives and > reinstall both Windows and Mandrake, so I did that next. I started > with Windows and it was a headache, to say the least. To make a > long story short, it took about 2.5 hours from start to finish on > installing Windows and the applications I wanted to use. This > included six reboots during driver installs. The Mandrake install, > on the other hand, went smoothly and flawlessly. Mandrake > automatically detected and installed the correct drivers for the > built in video and lan. From start to finish, it took about 35 > minutes and that included installing and configuring my > applications and restoring my home directory! > > Overall, I am extremely pleased with the upgrade. Boot time on > this computer is in the neighborhood of 10 seconds. I boot > directly to an X login (kdm) and to launch KDE takes about another > 8 seconds. Everything loads very quickly (Mozilla takes about > three seconds). Well, everything but OpenOffice.org, which still > takes some time. My old 500Mhz system would take about 45 seconds > to boot and about another 30 for KDE to load. In additions, I have > not run into any compatibility problems. > > > In short, I would like to say that if you are looking for a > low-cost system board/cpu and don't require a lot of expansion > slots, you may want to check out the PC Chips 810LR. > > > > Joeb >
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