CPU's revisited

1998-04-10 Thread richard
I too have been looking for AT form Pentium II motherboards. (I want to keep my server tower -- lots of space for internal peripherals.) I was planning to get the Supermicro Super P6DLF -- A FULL AT size dual Pentium II motherboard 5 PCI, 3 ISA and AGP. Anyone have any experience with this boa

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-10 Thread Phil Risby
Thanks , thats good news One of the reasonds I havnt upgraded to Pentium with ATX is that I really like my old case. A beautiful work of art, full tower with copper fingers all around the joint of cover to chasis. :-) Phil Bryan Swann wrote: > Phil, > > I had to do some searching, but I did find

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-10 Thread Bryan Swann
Phil, I had to do some searching, but I did find three AT Pentium II motherboards. Although, I did have to upgrade my memory. I selected a Gigabyte 686BLX motherboard. The only problem so far is that this board only has two ISA slots; the rest are PCI. I think the oter two AT boards were from

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-09 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: > Thats a valid commetnt, but I was wondering abput yourt upgrades? > Doesnt the Pll use and ATX m/b and need an ATX case? Not necessarily. There's no direct correlation between PII's and ATX. ATX and AT are both available for all modern CPU's. -- PL

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-09 Thread Phil Risby
Bryan Swann wrote: > >From what I understand, the Pentium II and Pentium Prp are very similar. > Except, the Pentium II runs older 16bit applications faster. I don't see any > new Pentium Pro processors being developed, so I would go with a Pentium II. I > just upgraded a 486 to a Pentium II wi

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-09 Thread Bryan Swann
>From what I understand, the Pentium II and Pentium Prp are very similar. Except, the Pentium II runs older 16bit applications faster. I don't see any new Pentium Pro processors being developed, so I would go with a Pentium II. I just upgraded a 486 to a Pentium II with 64MB of RAM for just over

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-08 Thread GateKeepeR News
Whoa there, a PPro is far superior to a PII.. I have compared them, PII is nothing. I would get the PPro ( I would have if I didn't need 95) B. On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: |Hi everyone | |I know this is not redHat specific but I am thinking of upgrading. |I am trying to fin

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: > I am trying to find out if the Pentium ll series wuld be a better bet > to say a Pentium Pro 200 The only advantages to the Pentium II is the megahertz speed and the MMX. Since Linux doesn't use the MMX (in fact practically nobody uses the MMX due to Intel

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-07 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pentium Pro's still go for very large amounts (they haven't really droped in price). You can get a 233mhz pentium II for cheaper (maybe even faster). The reason being, the only people left (for the most part of course) that use pentium pro's are the o

CPU's revisited

1998-04-07 Thread Phil Risby
Hi everyone I know this is not redHat specific but I am thinking of upgrading. I am trying to find out if the Pentium ll series wuld be a better bet to say a Pentium Pro 200 bearing in mind that 1) Pentium Pro is dying out 2) Pentium ll go upto what is ti now 400 Mhz? 3) Pentium Pro is a neat chi