On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:29 -0400, Greg Brown wrote: > Has anyone on the list has the same misfortune with AMD that I have > had? Perhaps I am returning too quickly to the comfortable world of > Intel.
You are indeed not alone, but similarly my "bad" experiences only have a correlated and not necessarily causal relationship to the AMD chips by themselves. Also it has been many years since I have used AMD systems. I _have_ had great luck running a basic desktop P4-2GHz system with a matching Intel mobo nearly 24x7 (often at 100% load with [EMAIL PROTECTED] or other things) for over 3 years without problems. Just my basic home system. Though the talk in the HPC world that I know of and some of the vendor presentations I've been to imply that the Xeon and Itanium chips have been hitting problematic heat and power consumption levels. Not that this would be trouble for most users, just requires more environmental support in dense deployments. Opterons appear to be the overwhelming choice for 64-bit HPC systems. I'm considering getting a dual-Opteron system for myself in the future. What would be extremely helpful from fellow TriLUGgers would be recommendations for MOBO manufacturers since AMD doesn't make their own. Tim -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
