I was really excited to hear about the AMD 760 chipset
supporting the dual 266 FSB Athlon processors + the DDR RAM.
I personally don’t own an Athlon right now and would like to know if anyone is using one out there? Any probs? I have heard that this “compatibility” issue is a scare tactic… Or is that too propaganda? Pls tell thanks!
Zelly
I was considering a system configured with the Athlon Thunderbird. And would similarly like to hear from somebody who’s had experience with Maya and Athlon. I haven’t heard of any compatibility issues.
I have a 1.1GHz Athlon with the Abit KT7-Raid motherboard, 384Mb of ram and a 3DLabs GVX1. The system works like a dream! I haven’t had any troubles with Maya 3 on it and it renders sooo fast!!! Oh and i’m running windows 2000.
My only concern is that this Abit motherboard has only 3 dimm slots (which i have now filled up. It will however take 1.5Mb ram
i too have an amd system running maya
duron700@1000
abit kt7 (non-raid)
384 MB corsair
GVX1
windows 2000
maya 2.5.2 and maya 3.0
everything runs fine, only crashes from time to time when i’m using paint effects
maya+AMD=awsome
DDR RAM = waste of cash ““FOR NOW””
SDRAM so cheap, buy a 133bus Athlon and when DDR is down in price, there are new motherboards that offer better DDR support (bios/OS patches/etc) then upgrade those parts.
Sean
Or goto crucial.com and get DDR ram for the same price 
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Free shipping for Canadians too! [too many US companys tend to ignore the “north”]
Edited by =Oblagon= on 02/01/01 06:59:12 PM.
I have an ASUS A7V with and AMD Thunderbird 1200.
ALL SCSI No IDE
512MB RAM and a 3DLabs Oxygen GVX210 .. Runs MAYA Perfectly
Dose the viewport update fast also?
I am thinking of buying a GVX1…
The 760 MP hasent been released yet. Acording to AMDZone.com Tynan is shooting for the end of Q1 2001 for release of the board and AMD will be releasing the 760MP Northbridge in Q2. I am hopeing that the 1500 or 1700 Thunderburds will be out when the 760MP hits retailers.
Dan
1700 MHz T-Birds? in Q2? hmm… not sure but the 1.3’s are due out the first week of March. Damnit, I’ve been waiting on the stinking 760MP mobos for like 3 months, ever since i first saw a pic of the tyan dual-proc mobo. c’mon already! oh, and by the way, amd and maya are great…the fpu of the athlons smoke intel chips. i ran my benchmarks and i’m never going back to intel, you all can decide for yourselves.
No not Q2,but buy the time we can get our hand on the MP the 1500s and maybe the 1700s (Q4) may be out.
Dan
I’m using a a Asus A7V right now equiped with a 900MHz T-bird, 256MB of PC133 and a twinview asus MX2 (got to repair my other 17" monitor!). The built-in ULTRA ATA100 controller give excelent disk performance , plus you can hack it and make a ATARAID controler (compare the cost/speed of a ATARAID compare to similar performance under SCSI
Oh yeah, there’s an AGP 4X/ PRO slot!
For performance, it’s great!!
I did have some problem installing my Aureal soundcard but it mostly due to a lack of good drivers, since Aureal have been bought by Creative some times ago…
But when everything is setup it’s very stable (more stable then the brand new IBM Intellistation we recently got I school!!)
Hi,
Are there any heating problems with the Athlon chip .
Nitin
Only if you forget to put on a heat sink 
At the rated speed, an Athlon will generate more heat than an Intel chip, BUT it functions quite well within that spec. It won’t just overheat because it’s a hotter running chip, that’s just the way it was designed.
My new Abit KT7A mobo has a fan speed monitor built in that will shut down the system if the speed of the fan goes out of spec (ie: stops) Also, both this mobo and the MSI that I just bought (damned if I can remember the model at the moment, but it’s their latest KT133 chipset board) also have thermistors under the CPU that can be monitored. The Abit HW monitor software is kinda hokey, since you cannot have it shut down the system when the temperatures go out of range, but you could probably find an app that does it pretty easily. I should take a look, but I don’t have time for it right now.
Sean
hi sparkleboy,
just confirming… is it windows 2000 “server” edition? i was using nt4 service pack 6 earlier + maya
i’m not sure which one …win2K -professional, advanced server, Me, …
thankyou
Windows ME is from the Windows 95 family and therefore won’t run Maya. Windows server server is largely reduntant unless you plan to run the machine as a server so you should go for windows 2000 professional.
It seems like everyone who’s got the Oxygen boards running the AMD TBird chip is rock solid.
I’ve got the PIII 600 and ASUS V6800 (with the GeForce1 chip) and thinking about upgrading to TBIRD. Also running Win2K. I"ve heard of compatiblity issues. So, i’m thinking about this combo… AMD Tbird with the A7V motherboard OR a PIII933 and Abit VP6 (supports dual) THEN getting the second chip when prices drop. Opinions?
Isn’t Maya designed around Intel’s SSE?
bickety bam!
Hi I am running Athlon900 256sdRam, mx twin view, win2000 pro sp1, MSI raid dual 30Gb fujitsu 5400rpm stripe 0 very quiet cool cheap drives, stable quick clocks easily to 1Ghz I don’t bother 48 to 52 degrees, raid speeds up work flow and stability dramatically swap performs way better, I have a friend running scsi swap with excellant results. a very cheap stable solution, I would like more ram for other apps but maya seems fine