I've owned 2 AMD systems, an AMD K6-2, and a dual Athlon MP. The K6-2 gave me no trouble. The dual MP is running on a Tyan Tiger MPX, and it is a bit of a pain in the ass. It crashes under heavy IDE load, and sometimes it won't turn on. Sometimes it crashes when transferring lots of data over usb 2. I have an NEC laptop with an intel 486 that works most of the time, but sometimes drops its network connection and won't restablish it until the driver module is reloaded. I built an AMD XP 2500+ on an Asus mobo MythTV box for a friend, and that crashes from time to time, but it may be due to the ivtv card in it, and cooling issues.
I also have an xbox (celeron 733), a dell laptop (pentium m) and desktop (p4), a dual celeron 366 box, an ibm laptop (p3), and a toshiba laptop (p4) that don't crash. Of all the systems listed, my favorite is the pentium m laptop. I hope to put intel's yet to be released dual core pentium ms in the next desktop I build, but I wouldn't hesitate to build an XP 64 X2 system either, I just might spend some more time reading motherboard reviews before doing so. Josh On 8/1/05, Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been running an AMD Athlon 1400 for about 3 years now, with an Abit > KG7 motherboard. I didn't have any problems. This weekend I upgraded it > to an Athlon XP 2400+ and so far so good. > > My original choice was based on price, and this time it was so that I > didn't have to upgrade everything. > > -- Owen > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 03:29:42PM -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. > > > > The opinion of the masses seem to be that, yes, I am the expection to > > the rule with the problems I have had with AMD processors. I would > > like to go the 64 bit route and I like dual core chips. > > > > I guess I am looking for an opinions. If price where not an issue > > would you build an AMD system or an Intel system. The OS I will > > likely use is Debian Sarge. The machine will be a server (i.e. > > doesn't need pretty graphics, will likely spent most of it's time > > chugging along at run level 3 in CLI mode). With this kind of system > > requirements in mind what would you build? > > > > Greg > -- > 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 > -- 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
