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

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Not in my opinion. I have NEVER had a problem with Adaptec in x86 hardware.
But that's all I would put it in.

I had a Sybios card and I had no end of problems. I moved to an Adaptec and
I haven't had a problem since.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:13 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up


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.

--
Joshua D. Boyd