On Saturday 26 May 2001 14:34, OOzy Pal wrote:
> Hello Guys
>
> I am going to be running mainly Mandrake 8.0 and later
> and Windows 2000 Pro. Which of the following do you
> recommend.
>
> PIII 1.3Ghz
> P4 1.4Ghz
> AMD Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 266
>
Well, you can probably buy two T-Birds for the price of a P4, and in all but
a very few Intel-crafted benchmarks, the Athlon outperforms the P4. The
T-bird does not have thermal protection so you need a motherboard with
sensors and you need to load and activate the lm_sensors mdule to panic
shutdown an athlon that has lost its fan.
The P3--why bother? It is way below the Athlon in performance and probably
higher priced. There is a reason AMD has grown from 10% to 47% market share
in a year's time.
BTW on motherboards I saw a couple mentioning RAID. You might be able to use
those controllers as normal controllers but forget RAID. Those RAID
controllers depend on special (windows binary-only) software. YOu can
achieve RAID performance with either SCSI hardware RAID, with a 3ware RAID
add-on card (yes, GPL drivers and hardware for IDE RAID) or by using linux
software RAID which is better than what the cheap fake hardware IDE-RAID
controllers offer under Windows.
Civileme
> OOzy
>
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