[TriLUG] AMD and reliability

[Josh Vickery]

I've owned 2 AMD systems, an AMD K6-2, and a dual Athlon MP.  The K6-2
gave me no trouble.  The dual MP is running on a Tyan Tiger MPX, and
it is a bit of a pain in the ass.  It crashes under heavy IDE load,
and sometimes it won't turn on.  Sometimes it crashes when
transferring lots of data over usb 2.  I have an NEC laptop with an
intel 486 that works most of the time, but sometimes drops its network
connection and won't restablish it until the driver module is
reloaded.    I built an AMD XP 2500+ on an Asus mobo MythTV box for a
friend, and that crashes from time to time, but it may be due to the
ivtv card in it, and cooling issues.

I also have an xbox (celeron 733), a dell laptop (pentium m) and
desktop (p4), a dual celeron 366 box, an ibm laptop (p3), and a
toshiba laptop (p4) that don't crash.

Of all the systems listed, my favorite is the pentium m laptop.  I
hope to put intel's yet to be released dual core pentium ms in the
next desktop I build, but I wouldn't hesitate to build an XP 64 X2
system either, I just might spend some more time reading motherboard
reviews before doing so.

Josh

On 8/1/05, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> I've been running an AMD Athlon 1400 for about 3 years now, with an Abit
> KG7 motherboard. I didn't have any problems. This weekend I upgraded it
> to an Athlon XP 2400+ and so far so good.
> 
> My original choice was based on price, and this time it was so that I
> didn't have to upgrade everything.
> 
> -- Owen
> 
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 03:29:42PM -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> > Has anyone on the list has the same misfortune with AMD that I have
> > had?  Perhaps I am returning too quickly to the comfortable world of
> > Intel.
> >
> > The opinion of the masses seem to be that, yes, I am the expection to
> > the rule with the problems I have had with AMD processors.  I would
> > like to go the 64 bit route and I like dual core chips.
> >
> > I guess I am looking for an opinions.  If price where not an issue
> > would you build an AMD system or an Intel system.  The OS I will
> > likely use is Debian Sarge.  The machine will be a server (i.e.
> > doesn't need pretty graphics, will likely spent most of it's time
> > chugging along at run level 3 in CLI mode).  With this kind of system
> > requirements in mind what would you build?
> >
> > Greg
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