Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 20:46:44 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 Can you elaborate? I've never heard of *any* X86 applications that won't run on an AMD processor. > (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 problem you're describing had nothing to do with AMD CPUs - it was a problem with the AGP support in the chipset and/or poor video drivers (Diamond is the worst offender). AFAIK, these problems have all been solved. > The K7M ASUS mainboard seems to be the best for K7, though. Here I agree - Asus makes great motherboards. --Peter
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