[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Michael A. Turner]

	That reminds me, is anyone making a user level board with 64 bit PCI
slot. I have an adaptec 39160 (love it) that I got for doing some work. It
freaked me out when I got it because it is a 64 bit card and I was panicking
about where I was going to plug it in. Thankfully, in an example of
forethought, these cards will also go into a 32 bit PCI slot. I have always
wanted to stick it in a 64 bit slot though. I imagine that it will improve
performance and I want to find out.

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Wallbridge [mailto:swallbridge at franticfilms.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:24 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up
> 
> 
> Asus does have a Dual Athlon board now.
> 
> But I definately wouldn't recommend the Thunder K7. First of 
> all the early
> revisions had huge problems (cooling of the chipset was the 
> biggest). We had
> to return two out of three Thunder K7's that we had. They 
> seem to be stable
> now, but I wouldn't buy one (and I had a perfect chance, I 
> could buy one at
> 1/2 retail, but I turned it down).
> 
> Second it is the original Dual Athlon chipset (MP). Since 
> then AMD has come
> out with the MPX. The MPX has a 64bit 66MHz PCI bus.
> 
> Personally I want an MPX with an Adaptec 29160 (or if I find 
> a pile of money
> on my way home a 39160).
> 
> shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of alex j avriette
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:54 AM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up
> 
> 
> > 	Exactly... everyone who is knocking AMD chips, never seems to
> > realize that 90% of the time it's the motherboard. I've never had
> > problems
> > with Asus or Soltek. But Gigabyte, tyan, Shuttle, etc... nothing but
> > problems.
> 
> Ahem.. where exactly do you get a dual motherboard for an AMD that is
> not Tyan? The one I want is a tyan thunder k7. If you rule 
> out tyan as a
> cause of problems with AMD, you also rule out dual cpu's. I can
> understand how a PC box would get overly hot with 2x multighz 
> AMD chips..
> 
> alex
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