On Thursday 20 March 2008 01:27 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any particular brand mobos for the AMD cpus? > > Well we have HCL machines at our lab. > High end AMD64 X2 CPUs. Not > sure the brand of the motherboard, it doesn't have drivers. We > struggled to get DRI to work properly.
So it is HCL not AMD. ALWAYS if you want good service get a small vendor. The big guys are full of hype n hotair and outsource everything to the small guys minus the profit. All the money you pay is just to cover jazzy ads about cows and bulls on BBC. And if you are wise get the mobos and build the boxes your self. lspci -v ? AMD is any day a better bet as far as drivers go. They have opened the specs to the cpu, chipset and the 3d graphics engine as well. Only a matter of time before you have full 3d support on all AMD chipsets. > As opposed to this my > experience with every single Intel motherboard ( lowend or highend > ) has been that it has worked out of the box except the last Intel > board DG965RYCK. The fix for which was rolled out pretty quickly. Compare the performance specs. Intel SUCKS in the same price band. And the ad thingy holds for Intel too. Looks like a good rule of thumb would be to avoid stuff that is advertised. The more the ads the farther you run. My ASUS m2nMX-se are working rock solid and cold for more than a year. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
