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@brunel.nl 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
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