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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: AMD DX4's running FreeBSD, DOS/WIN, etc.
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:40:05 GMT
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Ron Larson (rlarso01@ic1d.harris.com) wrote:
: I'm thinking about upgrading my DX2/66 motherboard (Intel CPU) to an
: AMD DX4 120MHz board (I can't make the Pentium jump yet because of all
: the VLB cards I have). Intel's high end DX4 runs at a 100MHz. Has
: anybody who runs multiple OS ' (or heck, just FreeBSD which is just
: fine) have any bad experineces with AMD CPUs, or know of any
: incompatibility problems? I appreciate the info.


I've had good luck with AMD dx2-80 and dx4-100 parts.  Just make
sure you get a decent motherboard.  Avoid PCI/VLB combo boards.

I'm probably going to upgrade my "play" machine to a dx4-120 as
I'm in the same boat (lots of high-end VLB cards).  Unless of
course someone wants to trade swap me a PCI version of my
#9 GXE 64 Pro with 4mb VRAM.  :)

Cheers,

Chris


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