Re: What Athlon chipset is most stable in Linux?

[Brian]

We've tried a number of boards for our application servers and the only UP 
AMD DDR board I trust right now is the Gigabyte GA-7DX.  They are rock 
solid.

Other AMD 761 boards may work, but I've made too many late night trips to 
the colo to stray from what I know works.  DDR support seems to be the 
breaking point on most boards.

	-- Brian

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:08 pm, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Martin Eriksson wrote:
> > I'm hearing rumours about my University wanting to set up a cluster
> > with AMD Athlon XP+DDR computers, so I wonder what chipset is most
> > stable under Linux?
> >
> > I assume it's the AMD DDR chipset, but I want to be pretty sure.
> >
> > Btw, do compilators currently optimize for the third floating-point
> > unit in Athlon XP processors?
>
> Well, here's my little anecdote:
>
> We bought 33 1.4 GHz AMD Athlons (non-XP) with the slightly deprecated
> VIA KT266 Chipset (Spacewalker AK31 motherboards.. not exactly the Lexus
> of the M/B world but oh well)..