Help me build an amithlon machine? Please?

[bbond007]

fishy_fiz,

I have two potential systems I could try amithlon on. One is a  Alienware box sporting a Tyan MPX (S2466) AMD-760 motherboard and 2 Athlon MP 2400+ CPUs and some sort of Nvidia Quadro video board. I think it is a AGP based video.

The other is a dual core  (not core2) P4 3.0ghz with intel 945 based motherboard.

Which of these clunkers do you think would be best?

thanks

_nate

[bbond007]

@bbond007

By the sounds of it both would be roughly on par in terms of end results, so I guess just use whichever one gives you less grief  

The p4 (from an amithlon perspective) might be fractionally faster (although I think maybe an athlon mp might have a larger cache than a normal xp cpu? (which helps with emulation)), but also p45 chipsets tend to work quite well.

Although in the early years amithlon was a better match for amd hardware intel support has probably surpassed it.

The Alienware case is kinda cool too. Think I should pull the 2ND CPU?

What is the best supported video card?

thanks, _nate

[bbond007]

@bbond007

Yeah may as well remove the 2nd cpu I guess as it wont be used.

As for video card I guess it depends on what a person wants from it. A gf5950 is the fastest supported card with full 2d acceleration, but matrox card can have dual monitor display. Personally Ive taken a liking to my Matrox g550. Both outputs work and it seems a very flexible card for making custom p96 screenmodes.

I think I have an old MatroxG200 in my junk....