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Date:      Mon, 08 Jan 2001 23:14:03 
From:      "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com>
To:        Lawrence.Kreitzer@aa.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Athlon Processors?
Message-ID:  <F9qCo84l3PGgzKGiOZ800001a04@hotmail.com>

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>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




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