Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

Rogier Wolff
2004-02-24T19:44:01Z

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:32:07AM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Things may have changed, but when I last built a Linux box (Athlon XP
> 2800+), I was not able to find a motherboard for recent AMD processors
> with 64bit/66mhz PCI slots. If I'd needed that, I would have had to go
> with Intel.

Ehmm. We've been trying to get 64/66 slots in our systems a while, and
the only affordable option I've been able to find are the dual-athlon
boards (Tyan, Asus).

We found tons of Intel boards that didn't have them until we figured
out that the popular Intel chipsets didn't support it....

Roger.

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