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1.) I can' say 2.) I have been running an AMD K-6 2 333Mhz on an Asus P5 motherboard. It has the 100 Mhz bus etc. If you go with an AMD you need a super socket 7 motherboard. I reccomend you stay away from the Apollo chipset. It has a 1Mb L2 cache which is great but I have heard it is very buggy. They have had to put out multiple patches for this chipset. The ALi Alladin chipset (512k L2 cach3) is very stable. I have had no problems with the AMD and am very satidisfied with the performance under Linux and windows 9x. For the money - you can't beat the performance of an AMD - The cpu is fuly compatible, cheaper and so is the motherboard. 3.) Currently using an Intel Etherexpress 10/100 - a lot more than $11. Have not had any problems. 4.) Video card - the number of AGP cards supported is growing rapidly - I am running a Diamond Viper V330 AGP with 4Mb RAM. I don't have any direct experince with other AGP - but I bought this card last year since it weas supported then and I got it for about $40. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, David Kramer wrote: > I want to build a new computer. Normall I would just go to a Ken Gordon > show, but there isn't going to be one for a while. This machine will > run dual-boot Windows and Linux (prolly NT, but I understand it's harder > to make that dual-boot). > > I am soliciting advice in a few areas of indecision: > > 1) ATX or non-ATX? I didn't like ATX the last time I looked at them, > but it's getting harder to find non-ATX motherboards and cases. Do the > on-board extra subsystems ever die? Are they usually flexible enough to > (dis|en)able individual subsystems, like com ports and IDE? > > 2)AMD K6-3, PII or PIII? The serial number thing really bugs me. I > know there's an initiative to have the kernel return arbitrary serial > numbers when polled. Is this in place in a kernel rev yet? Can it be > reliably disabled in Windows too? Is there a big performance increase > in the PIII? The hardware compatibility list supports the AMD K6-3, but > are there really no compatibility problems at all? > > 3)Network card- I've been using $11 DEC Tulip cards, and have been happy > with them. Is there a prevailing favorite card for a little more money > that might be better? > > 4)Video card- this one can be tricky. I've never gone all-out on a > video card before, but beyond the hardware compatibility list, are there > any ones that work exceptionally well with linux and take 4MB or 8MB? > Are AGP cards fully supported, or are there limitations? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > DDDD David Kramer david at kramer.ne.mediaone.net > DK KD http://kramer.ne.mediaone.net > DKK D > DK KD HYDROGEN: A colorless, odorless gas which, > DDDD given enough time, turns into people. > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). -- ELF - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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