Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Jon Biddell <jon@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:13 29/11/01 +0000, lester@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I thought this might interest someone that is about ready to get a new
> > system.  It seems, that even AMD's low end is better than Intel's high
> > end stuff.  :-)
>
> It's fairly common knowledge around here. The only problem
> is convincing customers that they don't need an Intel chip.
> One of mine was about to buy 10 £2000 Pentium machines to
> update his drawing office, until I showed him the same
> application on a £1000 Athlon machine. Much faster, and
> things improved even more with 1Gb of DDR ram - try buying
> that in RIMM <g>

Lester (and others),

I'm in the market for a grunt-box as a dedicated Linux workstation (well, 
with a removable hard drive, as it will play the occasional Evilware game 
of Total Annihilation, assuming I can't get that working under WINE or 
similar).  I have to admit, I was leanint towards a P4/1.6GHz or better, 
but the Athlon XP is several hundred Australian Pesos cheaper.....

What are your thoughts on DUAL Athlon machines, specifically with regards 
to cooling and performance ?

Any motherboards to stay AWAY from (I prefer non-integrated boards to those 
with sound/lan on-board, as I will be running an SB Audigy and probably a 
RAEDON video card - I need the SB for both sound and Firewire for Video 
Editing).

Jon