On Monday 15 November 2010 18:08:51 Arun Khan wrote: > 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.
That was me. The RMA process for AMD should be relabeled RMAD. The stupidity of the whole thing is unbelievable. However once I shipped after completion, I got a new one in 3 days from B'lore. Looks like mobos and CPUs are going the floppy and cd way - cheap and useless trash. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
