I haven't had any issue's with AMD.. however.. I've had several issues related to VIA chipsets.. Most of these are caused by VIA's issues with DMA latency.
I have a AMD Athlon XP 2200+ running on a VIA motherboard that I use in the living room for MythTV My PVR-350 card works with no problems.. But I recently got a PVR-500 (2 tuners) and any time i tried to capture video with it, the machine would reboot... Supposedly there is a VIA latency patch for windows.. but I haven't found one for Linux that actually works.. So right now my PVR-500 is in my Dell workstation and its setup as a MythTV slave backend. I'm not sure if VIA has resolved their DMA issues or not... I'd still buy AMD, but I'll just avoid VIA chipsets. On Thursday 14 July 2005 10:24 pm, Will Hill wrote: > AMD has consistently provided better performance / $. At times they even > provide better absolute performance. AMD, without contracts from the likes > of Dell have to earn their sales. Incidently, they have hired LSU EEs in > the past. I've never regretted an AMD board computer. > > Last weekend reminded me of how good AMD is. I bought an 800 MHz PIII to > replace my wife's old 450 MHz K6/2. The new computer had an integrated AGP > card and 256MB RAM, twice the old machine's. The performance gain was > real, but not what I expected. > > If your not concerned now, Intel won't work for you later. The goal of > anti-competitive paractices is to not have to pay for research and use the > difference to hand yourself a big fat bonus. > > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:47 pm, Brad Bendily wrote: > > AMD's prices > > really that low? I don't really care much about strong arm tatics > > of Intel. As long as their product works. If not then maybe i'll > > more concerned. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
