Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much > trouble. > > typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive > than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of going in > for an amd processor. athlon or duron? > > any feedback if the sailing with amd processors is as smooth as intel > ones.
cpu's don't matter much to the kernel. the chipset on the motherboard is usually more important. especially when it comes to IDE controllers. My newest AMD system is an athlon 1300(about a year and a half old), works as good as any intel system I've used. it has all top quality components in it for maximum linux compadiblity however, from my SCSI controller to my kingston ram, my 425watt PC Power & Cooling power supply, 3COM NIC, Nvidia video card. I used to run a AMD K6-3 400 on debian as well it was one of my most stable systems, that machine runs freebsd at the moment. The K6-2 and K6-3 chips are a wonderful series to run with linux in my experience. I personally reccomend against VIA IDE controllers(I use promise), onboard sound(I use Soundblaster PCI 128), cheap onboard video(some SiS, and others I can't remember right now at 3am, I use nvidia for 3D, and matrox for everything else at the moment), I disable AGP on VIA chipsets via Nvidia's driver, and I run a conservative 2.2.x kernel(currently kernel of choice is 2.2.19, though I may migrate to 2.2.23, laptop is on a trial running 2.4.20). I specifically purchased this AMD setup as it was seemingly the last rev that supported SDRAM, I have nothing that uses DDR or RDRAM and don't plan to get any such system anytime soon. Performance is secondary to reliablity and compadiblity for me. you don't mention what series of AMD chips your lookin at running. I wouldn't run athlon MP systems either at this point either, but I'm picky. despite the AMD rig being the fastest, it's not my newest computer, that is a Dual P3-450 with 1.5GB ram running redhat 7.3 for the IA32 side, and a new sun ultra 2 with dual 200mhz US-Is with 256MB ram running solaris 8. Nothing too bleeding edge here! I aim to build another dual p3-450 in the near future(I love the Intel L440GX+ motherboards). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
