Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:58, fsanta wrote:
> Are there any strong reasons not to go with AMD rather than Intel? Are
> there any reliabilty issues? Financially AMD makes lot of sense and we
> are thinking of 18 new boxes like mine for our school lan which would
> be as it is now: 100% SuSE 8.2. We can pick up the boxes for Euros 400
> whereas an PIV 2.4 is over Euros 600. Any other long term AMD users
> here?
> Cheers, Steve.

I've been using AMD processors on and off (actually I had two intels in
the meantime, a 486 and a celeron - the rest were all AMD) and I've had
no problems.  Currently running an AthlonXP with no problems at all. 
It's fast, doesn't run as hot as many people would like to make you
believe (it actually runs cooler than my neighbours P4), and certainly
offers more performance if money's the main consideration.

hans@ossewa:~> uptime
 10:41pm  up 50 days 21:28,  4 users,  load average: 6.03, 5.72, 4.88
hans@ossewa:~>

Hans