29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
6:26 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:25:23 -0600, Rick Taylor wrote:
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:27, Taybin Rutkin wrote:
Athlon's can run i686 kernels with no problems, I've only noticed very
marginal performace improvements when building athlon specific binaries over
generic i686, even in very float heavy code.
I'm /very/ happy with my Athlon, its float mangling / $ is amazing. OTOH
if you want dual CPU I'd go with PIII.
I've no experience of PIV's yet.
- Steve
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Steve Harris wrote:
> Avoid VIA KT333 based boards if you want to be able to rip cds with
> cdparanoia, I had to add another IDE card to my machine. Other than that
> its a good chipset though.
Peronally, I've had nothing but good luck with both of mine...
It looks like most of the software out here is Intel oriented...
Demudi's low latency kernel comes in intel and... intel, and I've had
really good luck with linux on half a dozen or so intel machines...