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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Regards,
OOzy
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