I would have to agree, I have the Asus A7V133, with a 1.4GHz Athlon, and it cost almost half of what a comparable P4 would have. I stayed away from the A7V266, when I was looking in the summer time, the chipset was 1st generation and had some problems.
The new Athlon XP's are the same form factor as the old Athlon I have,
so I can upgrade my processor without touching my MB (nice for a change)
I would go with an Athlon XP over a P4 any day, even my "old" Athlon 1.4
is beating the lower end P4's in benchmarks (Tom's Hardware, Extream PC,
etc.)
I know with the original (slot A) Athlons, they recomended a 300 watt
power supply, and when I was boulding my latest machine, I found a good
deal on a ATX case with a 300 watt power supply so I put it in.
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 19:41, Jason Guidry wrote:
> Lee Roberts wrote:
>
> > I'm shopping for a motherboard and CPU. At least a Pentium III and maybe
> > I'll spend the bucks for a Pentium 4. I'll consider AMD also. Any
>
>
> Someone can flame me for this, but all the benchmarks show the 1.2
> athlons whooping P4s for half the price. call it the chipset or memory
> or whatever, but it's still faster. Not to mention that with a P4
> you'll have to buy new RDRAM memory AND a new power supply. You can use
> ATX on an athlon mobo as unless you go for dual athlons.
>
> you can also take (some) solace that AMD has promised to stay with their
> current form factor for the next few years. so theoretically, you can
> buy a mobo now for a duron, and later with a bios upgrade, you can
> upgrade to the latest whatever they're on by then (it's been a while
> since I've read the roadmap).
>
> I run a KT266-Pro From MSI and it is great. DDR memory, USB 2.0
> support, and It works with mandrake, red hat (6.2 or later) and freeBSD
> since 4.3. the audio chip will work with mandrake, but it's not
> supported (magic I guess). If you're an audio person I reccomend
> grabbing a sound card. no onboard video.
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...Rob
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Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc.
President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
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