From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 15:14:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f9.law6.hotmail.com [216.32.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD8F37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:14:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:14:03 -0800 Received: from 165.228.131.12 by lw6fd.law6.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:14:03 GMT X-Originating-IP: [165.228.131.12] From: "Aaron Hill" To: Lawrence.Kreitzer@aa.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Athlon Processors? Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:14:03 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jan 2001 23:14:03.0706 (UTC) FILETIME=[B10AA9A0:01C079C8] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hello People > >Is anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a system that is Athlon processor >based ? Yes many people do. I run FreeBSD 4.2 on my workstation with this config... Athlon Classic 700Mhz Epox 7KXA (first with the VIA 133 chipset) 128MB 133Mhz RAM 32MB Matrox G400 MAX 20GB IBM IDE ATA66 ... and the system runs like a dream. No instabilities. CPU is recognised properly as is the VIA chipset. I'm even using the PC 97 Audio feature of the VIA chipset. >I am thinking about the Athlon Thunderbird processor and the k7T Pro2 >motherboard ... I cannot vouch for your motherboard but I'm sure somebody else can. Actually about the only thing I can think to warn people about with the Athlon systems is to make sure you get a better than average power supply in your system. Exact specs are on the AMD site if you want to get them. Aaron Hill _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message