Re: ATHLON & Shrike - *imperfect* alliance=random lockups?

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>  >> ... SB Live! series card. ... <<
> 
> Interesting. This has been mentioned several times. The Athlon 
> Thunderbird 1.333 that I have here is fine with the SB Live! in it.
(The 
> MB audio also worked with RH9.) Though I'll admit that I'm not
compiling 
> a new kernel while listening to ogg files. Perhaps I should work it 
> harder before I deliver it.<g>
> 
>  >> The other major hardware source of instability problems is using
an 
> inadequate and/or non-Athlon-certified power supply <<
> 
> I'll second that suggestion! The Athlon chip is a power hog. The 
> Thunderbird chips forced me to specify 300+ watt power supplies --
even 
> for "simple office machines". A tower with lots of extras needs more.
> 
> This was reinforced when talking with tech support at my hardware
suppliers.
> 
> ck

I'm still not quite sure about the SB Live cards being as bad as people
say.  I have lots of experience with many many SB Live cards, and I have
never had any trouble out of them.  I have had more than my alloted
share of problems from the drivers, though.  Creative cards remind me of
ATI cards...get the product right, get the drivers dead wrong.

The P4 chips usually use around 25% more than the Athlon chips. 
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2313  AMD sells many more chips to
home-builders and non-proprietary system builders who don't often add up
the total power consumption of everything, as opposed to brand-name
systems that generally get contracts from Intel and who use the absolute
minimum power supply available, sometimes as low as 135 watt in new
systems (I've seen Compaq's lock up when the volume was turned up too
high on the sound card.  In those cases, it's usually a Creative Labs
card, since they usually have quite powerful amplifiers.)





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