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[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

At 12:43 PM 3/17/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
>Samy Elashmawy writes:
> > How do you like the preformance ? did you have an amd K6 ?
> > What kind of vidio. The amd K7 keeps looking better and better. Real
Tempting.
>
>I previously had K6-3 400, but a GeForce blew out the motherboard.  I am
>getting great performance with the K7M, now, but I am telling you there are 
>many concerns.  If you are seriously considering, subscribe to 
>alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus and read some posts to get an idea of the 
>problems.  Among some of the highlights are memory (very particular about 
>brands, no problems here), a 300w power supply (I am using a 250w with 
>no problems).  There are other MB manufacturers for Athlon out there.  I have
>heard Gigabyte has a nice board, and I think Abit does too.  You might
>want to check out www.tomshardware.com, I think he has a review of some
>Athlon MBs.  I personally would wait for the KX133 chipset VIA will soon
>be shipping.  (www.via.tw.com)  It will support 4x AGP, and PC133 memory.

isint that the chip set intell is realy raising a stink about , pulling
them into court in three difrent countys to dispute the licencing agrement
they got wwhen they bought cyrex ?

> > 
> > At 11:02 AM 3/16/2000 -0500, Jesse Marlin wrote:
> > >
> > >I recently bought the Asus K7M (600 Mhz Athlon) and have not had any
trouble,
> > >except for a stupid BIOS upgrade.  I had both Win98 and linux already 
> > >installed and just swapped out the motherboard.  Win98 asked for a
bunch of
> > >drivers, and eventually came on line, while linux booted the first time.
> > >
> > >Yatsen Ng writes:
> > > > Hi there,
> > > > 
> > > > I bought a new pc equiped with an AMD Athlon and I just wanted to
know if
> > > > there's anything I need to take into account when I install Linux.
> > There's a
> > > > special bootdisk for Athlon systems on the SuSE site, am I correct? I
> > > > understand that this is necessary only if an older kernel is used.
Which
> > > > kernel is that? I've got SuSE 6.2 (with kernel 2.2.10).
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >  --
> > > > Yatsen Ng
> > > > yatsen.ng@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > Den Haag, The Netherlands
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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