Athlon/Duron & AGP

[ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 10:51 -0400, Douglas Alves wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was considering purchasing an AMD Duron cpu with Asus K7 motherboard
> and AGP graphics card, but I've heard that this combination causes some
> machines to freeze.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this problem?
> 
> Is Intel the best option for Linux users?
> 
> 
> 
No problem here.  My system is an AMD Duron 2200+ (1.5GHz.), 1 GiB RAM,
MSI KT4A-V Mainboard (VIA KT600 chip-set), and MSI GeForce FX5700 (AGP,
of course).

What you heard, is probably, about the very old AMD Mainboard chip-set,
the so called "IronGate" (I thinks it's the AMD750 chip-set).  It's
known to cause problem with some AGP devices.  It's very old chip-set
that you most likely won't see for the rest of your life.

My previous system was a dual AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (running at 1866MHz.
each), 1 GiB ECC RAM, ASUS A7M266-D Mainboard (with AMD 760MPX
chip-set), and MSI GeForce Ti 4600 (also AGP) and I didn't face any
problem with it.

I used/using both system for more than four years now.
Ziyad.