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2 issues with the ATHLON, firstly the powersupply, it needs to be 300W,
secondly the new GeForce Cards are having major problems with ATHLONs due to
AGP issues. other then those 2 'be warned's all should be smooth sailing!!

Darren
DPC

chris r <"paullin"@(remove_this)seanet.com> wrote in message
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> You should have no problems running any software or game with the athlon
cpu.
> But building and configuring them is another story.
>
> I can build and configure a 440bx mb, PII or PIII cpu, and load win98 and
all
> drivers and have it working in about an hour.  An Athlon and MB with same
parts
> would take another 30 minutes to an hour.
>
> It takes a little longer because you have to load patches and drivers for
AMD
> chipset and/or VIA chipsets.  And then sometimes you have some hardware
> incompatibilities.
>
> But once you get it working, it's quick.  And it works.
>
> Ken wrote:
>
> > Alright im 90% sure im going to get an Athlon 500. Just a few last
checks
> > before i go and spend my hard earned cash.....
> >
> > 1) Ive heard that some software (very vague as to what software) may not
be
> > compatible with the Athlon. I dont personally believe this to be true.
Has
> > anyone run into problems or have heard of any problems with software
> > compatability?
> >
> > The stuff that i will be mainly doing on my comp is games (halflife,
> > starcraft type games) some web stuff like homepage maintenance, learning
to
> > do some graphics editing, hopefully getting into composing music (ie
> > cakewalk guitar studio. yeah i know, but i cant play the
synth....yet!!). Of
> > course i will have the standard stuff like win98, ms office.....
> >
> > 2) Is it easy to build? what sort of things do i need to be aware of
when i
> > put it all together? ive got a friend whos put together intel machines
> > before...is it the same? or are there some differences that i have to be
> > careful of?
> >
> > thanks
> > ken
>