Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:47:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Aaron Hill <hillaa@hotmail.com> Cc: Lawrence.Kreitzer@aa.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon Processors? Message-ID: <20010109004740.A2014@buffy.raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <F9qCo84l3PGgzKGiOZ800001a04@hotmail.com>; from hillaa@hotmail.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:14:03PM %2B0000 References: <F9qCo84l3PGgzKGiOZ800001a04@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:14:03PM +0000, Aaron Hill wrote: > >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 > Noted here too :) .. but I have never seen the word 'classic' used for Athlon processors ? What other name may it have ? Cliff > ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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