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Re: non-pentium processors

Adrian Glover
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:43:58 -0700

william burchill wrote:

> I'm interested in non-pentium (i.e. cheap) based
> Linux. Has anybody tried AMD/Celeron/K6 and had good results?
> If so, why should anyone pay pentium prices?

I'm using an AMD K6-II 300, and haven't had any issues as of yet... The
only advantage to going Pentium, is you could get a Celeron 300A and
overclock it to 450 MHz safely (assuming you get a good heatsink, and
double fan). I'm tempted to try overclocking my AMD, but don't know how
far to go...

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