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

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:23:31PM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> 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).

I thought adaptec cards were considered kinda crummy.

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Joshua D. Boyd