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

[Shawn Wallbridge]

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