socket 7 question

[Corsairpro]

I picked up an old compaq from the parents basement. Its got an AMD k6 233ANR with 256 of external cache. I aquired a Pentium 200 in a trade. Which of those two cpus will be faster? The first cpu I ever worked with was a P3 866 so I'm not too familiar with this older stuff.

Also, if anyone could point me in the direction of info on this chipset. I see two chips from intel... here are the markings.

PCIset
sb82437vx
88040473
sl28z
Intel 95

PCIset
sb82371sb
87470511
su093
Intel 95

 

[Iron Woode]

The AMD would probably be faster.

As for the compaq chipsets: ewww!

If you need a board then check ebay for socket 7 stuff.

Unless you are just experimenting, I wouldn't use a compaq board.

 

[Corsairpro]

yea, I'm just experimenting.... I'm going to stick an 8gb hdd in it and I want to try linux for the first time... it has 32MB ram, cdrom, floppy integrated everything, 10baseT nic and ISA modem. Whats a good beginners linux that would run on this thing?

 

[tcsenter]

Intel 430VX PCIset: SB82437VX

Anandtech Chipset Guide: i430VX

 

[Boonesmi]

is the pentium an mmx part or not? (200mhz pent1 came in both versions)

either way the amd chip is probably faster, but if the pent chip is mmx its a little closer to the amd chip

 

[Peter]

The AMD chip will be MUCH faster on that chipset, since it has 64 KBytes of L1 cache, twice as much as a Pentium-MMX and four times as much as a plain Pentium.

You will NOT have fun trying a current Linux release with 32 MBytes of RAM. It's just so bearable with 96, and the fun starts from 128 upward.

In case this is your next question, no, the 430VX chipset cannot handle today's DIMMs.