I've got two systems available to me and can make one of them into a dedicated Linux box for playing around and Mono development.
I was hoping someone could give me some input as to which would be best, and why.

First option: PIII 800EB on a P3V4X (Apollo Pro 133a chipset) with 256M PC133 ECC RAM.

Second option: Athlon T-Bird 800 on K7T Turbo (KT133A chipset) with 256M PC100 RAM.


Whichever machine isn't the linux box is going to be a Windows 2000 Advanced Server box running IIS (I need it for work).

Thanks for any help!

i'd go with the athlon, i have that motherboard with a 1.2Ghz t-bird and haven't had any problems with it.

Yeah, use the Athlon. Advanced Server running IIS is a resource-hungry setup and will be better off with the 133 memory bus on the other board. We've run it at work on 700 MHz machines a couple of years ago and it was tough going with the machine loaded up. It needs all the help it can get :-) .

Damien

Thanks guys,

I was hoping that would be the answer. The PIII has been my Win2k web server for a couple of years and not changing it is definately the path of least resistance. I was just worried that Linux liked Pentiums better--I don't know why I thought that. Now I can ditch my Pentium 233 (with MMX!) Redhat machine that's always been too slow to be useful and build a SuSE machine with the Athlon box I'm scavenging from old parts laying around here.

Thanks for the guidance.

If I were you, I'd find some use for that 233 with Slackware. Be it a webserver, fileserver, or whatnot. Is it a quiet machine or loud machine? I wish I hadn't dismantled my 133mhz, that thing was so quiet, it would've made a great dedicated server for one thing or another. Maybe even just for SETI....