Thing only thing i'm waiting for is the KX133 chipset....which has just gone into production and we should see motherboards Q1 '00. Good god!!! Imagine a having a 800MHz athlon sitting on your desk.....i'm definitely buying one. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Hirsch [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Athlon processor The biggest problem I have had with the Athlon Proc is envy. Yes, pure, green, envy. I built one around an ASUS K7M board... and I want it. bad. 128 megs ram, 32meg video.... just watching it do a memory test in less than 1/2 second gives me shivers. Bye bye pentiums... I'm going Athlon from now on! (and you can get one for *cheeap* 179$ or so...) jason ---------- Jason Hirsch, ChemEng/Chemistry Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist! Visit the Dorm Room Life may never http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~hirsch Give us another [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chance to do right. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, J. Scott Kasten wrote: > For the most part, it's just an x86. However, you should run I think it's > 2.2.12 minimum, maybe it's 2.2.13, but around that anyway. Devel kernels > from 2.3.30 on should be ok to. There's just a little funky stuff to get > the chip to really sing that's in those kernels. You should go to deja and > search the news groups archives. A friend of mine is really happy with his > Athlon 550. There's all kinds of tuning that you can do such as mtrr to > speed up video, 3Now!, IDE params, etc.... > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:10:44PM -0600, Carey F. Cox wrote: > > > > I remember reading some posts recently about the Athlon processor. I didn't > > pay attention to those at the time, but now I have someone asking about > > putting Linux on one of those chips. How compatible are these chips > > with RH6.0 or greater? What are the problems being experienced? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Carey > > > > ============================================================= ========= > > <> Carey F. Cox, PhD | PHONE: (409) 880-8770 <> > > <> Assistant Professor | FAX: (409) 880-8121 <> > > <> Dept. of Mech. Eng. | EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> > > <> Lamar University | WEB: N/A <> > > ============================================================= ========= > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > > as the Subject. > > > > -- > J. Scott Kasten > > jsk AT tetracon-eng DOT net > > "That wasn't an attack. It was preemptive retaliation!" > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.