There are no issues I'm aware of that relate specifically to the processor (it would be rather odd if there was), however I'd advise you to be very careful in your choice of motherboard (stability), power supply (try to get an ATX 2.03 unit, certified to work with AMD processors - at least 300w, depending on how many devices you have), and to a lesser degree, RAM.
See the start of Catie Flick's motherboard upgrade thread in the slug-chat (before it turned into a flame war). I haven't heard anything fantastic said about any of the current release athlon boards, except for a few of the more expensive AMD760 chipset models, which (afaik) require DDR SDRAM. I've had reasonably good luck with Abit boards, but dealer friends tell me that their QA has gone to crap. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Biddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:08 PM Subject: [SLUG] Hardware : Ayone know if there are any major issues running Linux (distro will be SuSE, : but that's not really relevant now) on the Athlon 1.2gHz processor ? I've : found one for $750 spec'd pretty well as a desktop replacement. : : Jon : : : --------------------------------------------------------------- : WTC > /dev/null; chmod +x /usr/bin/laden; rm -rf /usr/bin/laden : : -- : SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ : More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
