On Wednesday 10 January 2001 04:16, Orlando Andico fingered:
> If you wanna go in under 20K get a Duron-650 and overclock it to
> 950MHz. At the same clock speed the Tbird and Duron are within 10% of each
> other performance wise. But the Duron-650 is like 3200 only. With the
> money you save you can add another 128MB RAM (*most* important for a
> server) and still come in at the same price.
Your suggestion is well taken, as I can get a Duron 700 for 2950p and an
Athlon 900 for 6750p. For this type of savings, it would be really nice to
get a dual-CPU Socket A m/b, and get the best of both worlds.
As for overclocking, especially a server, I'm a little hesitant. My air-con
bill will negate the speed improvement over a period :-)
>I hardly see anyone here selling Abit KT7. Anyone know who's the distributor
>of Abit?
Jerome, I'll be getting the hardware from overseas, which accounts for the
price difference. One reason I'm keen on this particular m/b is it's support
for 8 IDE devices(good for some of my older disks lying around), but I'm
afraid there's no support in Linux for IDE RAID.
Still, really keen on dual CPU m/b. Anyone??
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Cheers,
Ronald
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