From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 23 14: 8:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E3C37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E1F7A18B9; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFA418B8; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:31:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Doug Young Cc: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: AMD Duron In-Reply-To: <00bf01c08586$400bc940$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Quite apart from all the dual-booting WinWhatever issues, the (FreeBSD 3.2) > news server episode here is a fair example of why I have no time for AMD ... > everything but the CPU was replaced several times over (with various breeds > of component readily available in OZ) without making the slightest > difference .... it was only when the AMD was replaced by an Intel that the > machine functioned for more than a day without crashing . Maybe its possible > to eventually find a combination of bits that do work properly with AMD but > I've got more than enough things to do than mess around with that nonsense. Understandable... though totally 100% contradicts the my experiences with AMD. BUT... I have heard of people with lots of problems... the only unifiying factor was the CHIPSETS of the motherboards. Of course in these cases these were companies building bargain-basement home-PC boxes. For the record, Asus and Soltek are the only motherboards I'll buy. Both run AMD chips flawlessly. :) In fact I've now officially had more bad Intel chips pass through my hands then AMD chips. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message