I was on vacation so please excuse the delayed response. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Rony Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some time back there was a discussion on which board processor combination > would be good for a workstation.
It was me, I already posted the mobo (ASUS) and cpu (AMD 1090T). > My own machine has been down since many > days. One day everything was fine with my dual boot Intel 845 GEBV2 system > and I decided to install SP3 in my XP just for kicks. It was downloaded > properly from the doze update website and after a few minutes, it started > restarting my comp. The worst part was that my mobo got damaged and the HDD > controller is giving trouble. Live CDs run fine but even clean installation > of doze gives blue screen errors and linux gives hard disk read/write errors > midway during installation. It is time for me to go for a new board. I have had a spate of problems with Intel branded motherboards (5 in the last 12 months - amongst them one workstation and one server class). The latest one being a RMA'd mobo failing within 2 weeks of receipt. I have no experience with other vendors re: mobo RMAs but with Intel one has to go through hoops [1] to convince their engineer that indeed the problem is with the mobo - resulting in a loss of 10-15 days. [1] one of them asked me to use an exact 300W SMPS as it was specified in their spec. This has convinced me to look @ MSI/Tyan + AMD as alternate platforms but they are somewhat difficult/expensive to source in Mumbai. For my latest unit, I settled for an ASUS+Phenom combo. > I have had 2 processor failures in limitted > quantities of AMD whereas Intel processors have been quite robust. Another member reported AMD CPU failure - CPU failure is quite rare. > Another thing one should avoid is Asus motherboards with nVidia chipsets. > They are > not very stable and solid. Thanks for the tip. -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
