[NTLUG:Discuss] New Box

[Kevin Gallagher]

I am running SuSE 7.1 on a 1.2G T-Bird.  I am using
the IWill KK266 mother board which lets me run the CPU
at 266 and still use PC133 memory, so I cannot comment
on DDR memory.  I have been running it for about a
month without incident.  I will agree with the
statement about performance being I/O bound.  My ATA
100 drive is the stumbling point on performance.

On Thu, 03 May 2001 14:03:22 CDT, the world broke into
rejoicing as
"WILLIAM PEARSON" <WPEARSON at cyclix.com> said:
> I'm building a new box for my wife who wants to run
Linux as her 
system.
> She became so angry over Hailstorm, XP, and .NET, it
was incredible.  
I
> have successfully convered an M$-Drone to the
righteousness of Linux.

> I have a question though.  I'm wanting to build her
a 1.33 Ghz Athlon
> T-Bird utilizing DDR memory.  Now I don't know if
there is any
> compatibility issues with Linux on that. Does anyone
have any 
experience or
> knowledge of problems of Linux on such a platform?
Particularly Red 
Hat
> 7.0.

That's pretty bleeding-edge hardware, so there's some
risk of the bugs
not all having been worked out yet, but the issues
should relate to the
motherboard far more than to Linux.

Is there some particular reason why you would think it
best to spend 
the
Big Buck$ on the latest Athlon processor?

The difference in price between 850MHz and 1.3GHz is
around $100; for
that money you could get an extra 256MB of RAM, and
cut down 
considerably
on power consumption.  A happy result in the summer
months :-).  It's
entirely likely that performance will be I/O bound,
or, if it's 
graphics-bound,
buying a graphics card with better acceleration would
probably beat out
buying a marginally faster CPU...

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