Actually, the remark about AMD/VIA and Soyo
stems from the fact they don't last over 3.75 years.
You can squeeze them a little longer, but two of mine went
pretty "belly up", and my wifes was VERY sensitive to
moderate heat this summer... The minute the temp dropped
a couple degrees it worked fine... (I have case fans,
I replaced the NorthBridge fans, and even the CPU fans...)
For a short while, I was using an old "retired" Dell 800M
Win_ME to surf and get e-mail... It is Intel and still works
perfect under the same conditions, in the same room...
JMHO, YMMV...
Rick Glazier
From: "Thane Sherrington"
Because of the puffed caps problem? Intel-based motherboard have had
plenty of those. The P4 doubles as a cap-puffer due to the
ridiculous power strain it puts on components.
At 05:03 PM 31/10/2007, Rick Glazier wrote:
I'm beginning to think it was a bad idea to stray away from Intel...
