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Subject: Re: ATHLON HELP ME ON THIS PLZ!!!!
From: Shaya Potter <spotter@opus.cs.columbia.edu>
To: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>
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On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 16:07, Mike Harrold wrote:
> > 
> > I know i have been posting too many questions on this subject and i also
> > know that these athlon issues were deeply discussed some week ago.
> > So i went back and READ ALL the posts concerning dual athlon machines and
> > even chipsets! But my dought remains.
> > 
> > I am about to buy a dual athlon pc, a tyan's thunder k7 S2462 ( 760mp ) and
> > two 1800 or 1700 ahtlon MP processors.
> > I will buy the registered DDram supported or advised by tyan's manufacturer
> > as well as a good power supply and some major cooling.
> > 
> > My main question is:    Am i going to have any kind of problems when trying
> > to run a SMP kernel???
> 
> Actually, I'm interested in this as well. The only thing stopping me from
> buying a dual Athlon MP is the problems I keep reading about here on lkml.
> I don't want to spend the money only to have problems.
> 
> So, if anyone is running dual Athlon MPs *flawlessly*, I'd appreciate a
> hardware listing (MB, Bios version, RAM type & manufacturer, etc.).

I strongly reccomend the forums at www.2cpu.com and www.arstechnica.com

shaya

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