Author: Roger
Date: 18:35:29 12/13/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 21:24:02, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >AMD K6-3 will be discontinued, replaced by K6-2+ (which will have less cache!). >AMD K7 (Athlon) has many compatibility problems now, and stability is the main >problem (perhaps you are a "general gamer" too, uh? - so you'll probably want to >get your 3D graphics card running 100%, but... what so if it crashes your system >_very _often? ). The K7M ASUS mainboard seems to be the best for K7, though. >Maybe what only matters to you is CHESS, so... get a dual board! Cheap option: >Abit BP6, dual celerons (same speed and specs!) and... Linux or WinNT/Win 2000 >(oops... Win 2000 Server... some $$$ more...). My opinion is that K6-2 is >already dead. >If you want to be secure of what happens to your PC (and do not want to >overclock), buy a good mainboard for a Pentium III. >A. Ponti About the Abit dual processor boards...do they just support Celerons... Been awhile since I looked, but a 500 megahertz Celeron is as fast as they go, right? I'm wondering whether I shouldn't just wait another three months. By then I could probably get a single processor Coppermine chip as fast as the double processor Abit, and save myself the upgrade to Windows2000. Roger
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