On Tuesday 23 September 2003 15:46, Jack Alderson wrote:
On Monday 22 September 2003 12:58, fsanta wrote:
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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 run an Athlon 2.2 GHz machine - only difference versus the older Intel machines is the chip needs more cooling. I pulled the case off to give it better circulation, and the fan noise is rather more than I was used to. If you don't mind having a wind turbine under your desk, then Athlon is fine. Just hope I don't spill any coffee.... -AD