[TriLUG] AMD and reliability

[Dean Price]

The only bad experiences I have had with AMD were directly related to 
mobo's.

I currently run SuSE 9.3 64bit on MSI Via Chip based mobo with AMD 3200+ 
64bit processor
I "tried" out several 64bit OS's on this box (Fedora Core 64bit, Ubuntu 
64bit, Gentoo 64bit, Debian Woody 64bit, etc...)
All of which were stable but not quite what I had in mind for a desktop 
machine. SuSE is where I landed.

That being said, that was my first AMD based machine in a long line of 
Intel based machines.

Thanks,
Dean Price
deano at price4.org

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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