From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 13:49:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 13:49:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6AC37B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.0.20] (spider.interactplus.com [216.180.46.102]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eBLLnQu27598 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:49:26 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: dkelly@hiwaay.net (Unverified) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:40:28 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Athalon slot vs. socket and other issues Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Faced with replacing my PPro-166/512k due to lightning strike running in the ethernet NIC. The right choice seems to be the AMD Athalon family. But am faced with the choice between slot and socket configurations. Seems like a slot could be cooled on both sides while a socket could not. A slot could contain its own voltage regulator, which might be hard on a chip. The slot MB's appear to be a tad cheaper. But for some reason ('cause he has one in stock?) the local shop is recommending socket and has no other justification. Any performance differences between slot and socket? Any differences in future support and upgrade options? Seen hints at AMD of larger caches on new slotted CPU's but haven't found that detail yet. While we are at it, he wants to put registered PC133 ECC memory into an Asus A7V MB. Says the MB will use either registered or non-registered memory, "but registered is what we use in serious server-class machines such as yours." Seems that registering can only add propagation delays. But could improve reliability. Recommendations? Should I stretch for VCM or stay with the comfortable easy known PC133? Have always been pleased with Asus MB's in the past. Is Asus still as good as they have been? The A7V is more expensive than the K7V and appears to use a different VIA chip (KT133 vs KX133). Interesting as AMD's web site doesn't appear to list any Asus MB's other than the A7V as "recommended." -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message