[TriLUG] AMD and reliability

[David McDowell]

I left AMD (last was Athlon XP 2000) for an Intel P4 3.0 and I am
completely happy with it... even on an Intel mobo of all things, 40GB
SATA boot and 200GB SATA data drives.  My only remaining AMD machine
is an OLD 166mhz that was my frist PC ever after leaving Apple behind
around 1997~ish.  It runs as my fw at home now and seems fine all
these years... nearly 100% always on the entire time... of course, it
just passes packets around.  :p

David McD


On 8/1/05, Dean Price <deano at price4.org> wrote:
> 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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