Subject: Re: Any caveats on non-Pentium CPU's?
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/19/2001 10:40:04
> I recently bought a barebones system from Accessmicro.com that I've fleshed
> out to these specifications:
>
> Epox 8KTA3 motherboard - VIA chipset
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^

this is the only thing i would not like to have.

> 1ghz Athlon chip
> 384 megs memory
> 20gb IBM Deskstar ATA diskdrive
> Acer CD-RW ATA drive
> ATI Xpert 2000 video card w/32 megs meory
> 3com 3C905B network card

buy separate CD-ROM drive. using CD-RW to read CDROMs is not a good idea.

> But the machine is a screamer...

could you do:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64k count=16384 on unloaded system?

and tell me time.