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[jkrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jerome Krough)]

How did you get an Athlon to work on a 440BX motherboard?

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> 
> Yatsen Ng wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Here are my 2 cents:
> 
> I just bought an Amd Athlon 650 on an Asus 440BX Flagship mobo, 128MB
> mem, IBM 15GB harddisk (7200rpm) and a Matrox Millenium Dual Head, 32MB
> AGP.
> 
> The machine I already had is exactly the same, but for the CPU is a
> P-III 500 and the harddisk is an IBM 15GB 7200 rpm. I installed SuSE 6.3
> on both.
> 
> Now for the troubles and performance:
> 
> - The installation was (as usual) flawless. No trouble at all.
> 
> - I didn't see any differences between the installation on the Pentium
> or the Athlon, only the kernelmessages about the bugs were slightly off.
> 
> - The performance on the Athlon is quite a bit better. I'm not sure how
> to express the rates, but I run SETI@Home (maybe you know it) and one
> block of data runs approx. 10 hours on the P-III and about 8 hrs on the
> Athlon. Quite some difference I'd say.
> 
> 
> Greetz,
> Rogier
> 
> 
> +---------------------------------+
> | Rogier Maas                     |
> | icarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx             |
> | http://www.guldennet.nl~icarus/ |
> | ICQ# 2403780                    |
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