From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 15:31:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E4237B40C for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 15:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jimarnold.org (a11a174.neo.rr.com [204.210.192.174]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g4JMVCK15777 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 18:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (mac [192.168.0.4]) by jimarnold.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF03368F for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 18:31:09 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jim@192.168.0.2 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 18:31:03 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Arnold Subject: AMD761 or KT266A advice Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1190275030==_ma============" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --============_-1190275030==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" After spending a lot of time researching various overclocking websites for motherboard reviews I'm not much better off than I was when I started. Most of these sites are geared towards Windows users who like to squeeze everything they can out of their systems to play games. I don't play computer games nor do I run windows (obviously). I Googled of these chipsets and freebsd didn't turn up much either. My current system runs on an Epox motherboard with a K6-3 400 and has been as stable as anyone could want. I'm curious to know if anyone is running either of these chipsets and would like to share their experience and which board they run. After my research I came down to these two boards for each chipset: Epox EP-8K7A for AMD761 Chipset Epox EP-8KHA+ for KT266A Chipset I'm wondering how much faster a KT266A board would be over an AMD761 chipset board, when, for example, it came to compiling the latest Mozilla or making my world. But my overriding concern is stability. I would be putting an Athlon XP 1500, 1600 or 1700 in this system. Thanks for any help. Jim --============_-1190275030==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" AMD761 or KT266A advice
After spending a lot of time researching various overclocking
websites for motherboard reviews I'm not much better off
than I was when I started.

Most of these sites are geared towards Windows users who
like to squeeze everything they can out of their systems to
play games.

I don't play computer games nor do I run windows (obviously).
I Googled of these chipsets and freebsd didn't
turn up much either.

My current system runs on an Epox motherboard with
a K6-3 400 and has been as stable as anyone could want.

I'm curious to know if anyone is running either of these chipsets
and would like to share their experience and which board
they run. After my research I came down to these two boards
for each chipset:

Epox EP-8K7A for AMD761 Chipset
Epox EP-8KHA+ for KT266A Chipset

I'm wondering how much faster a KT266A board would be
over an AMD761 chipset board, when, for example, it came
to compiling the latest Mozilla or making my world. But my overriding
concern is stability. I would be putting an Athlon XP 1500, 1600 or 1700
in this system.

Thanks for any help.

Jim

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