On Monday 22 September 2003 12:58, fsanta wrote: <snip>
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.
Hello Steve, I have been using an AMD-based machine here at work for 4 years with absolutely NO problems or crashes. My workstation/server runs 24/7/365 and has never crashed. Given how heavily I use it that's quite an accomplishment. I use it as a development workstation for C, C++, Perl, HTML; it runs Apache webserver; runs as a MySQL database server for my automation software; runs my automation software; runs as a backup server for Suns, Dec Alphas, NT servers and equipment; and I use it to administer all of the above systems. It has been more stable than the Sun Enterprise server. I will say that I built this box to run SuSE Linux exclusively. Therefore, I purchased equipment that was certified to work with SuSE Linux 7.0 at the time. I ran SuSE 7.0 Professional on it for 3 years without any crashes. The message log was clean with no errors, meaning the system was very compatible with the hardware I chose. Nearly 3 months ago, (due to a bug in PartED that scrambled my inodes) I upgraded to SuSE 8.2 and the system has been running just as stable with it. My work system: AMD 800MHz Thunderbird Asus A7V KT133 motherboard Mitsumi 42X CD-ROM 768 Meg Infineon SDRAM non-ECC ATI 8meg PCI All-In-Wonder video Quantum IDE HDs (1-20G, 2-30G) Allied Telesyn 10/100 NIC Good quality Thermaltake CPU heatsink/fan Teac 1.44 floppy My home AMD system is older but heavily overclocked. It runs very stable as well. It has SCSI HDs, wireless NIC and 10/100 NIC, runs Apache, MySQL, Sendmail, DNS, Proxy, ect... It only runs at 400MHz. (It's max cpu speed was only suppose to be a 233 Pentium. I found some special tweeks). Jack A.