Screamingly-fast performance for those looking to get the most for their dollar
Totally PC-buzzword-compliant with everything you’d expect from a performance workstation
Cons:
Default minitower case is too small and shoddily built
Hardware is not friendly to installing current Linux distributions
Specifications
CPU
Twin 1.2 GHz CPUs
RAM
512 MB RAM
Hard Drive Space
18.2 GB SCSI drive
Extras
DualHead Matrox G450 video card
Creative SoundBlaster 128
52x CD-ROM
The AMD Athlon, with its accompanying AMD 760 chipset, is arguably the world’s best-value business-quality PC platform. It’s gotten rave reviews and awards in industry journals and on PC hobbyist Web sites the world over.
Despite a whole host of awards and glowing reviews, the Athlon couldn’t be taken seriously in the high-performance workstation market until ASL Workstation’s recent release of the Marquis K121.
State of the Art
Based on Tyan’s Tiger S2460 dual processor mainboard, the unit can accommodate twin 1.2 GHz Athlon Thunderbird processors,…
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