[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For the past 7 years I have had nothing but AMD, besides a single >Compaq >laptop. I have, found problems mainly to be BIOS related and not >CPU. > >Although, AMD give more heat, as I am sure you are aware. Heat is >bad >for processors, heat=resistance. It is also plausable to suggest the >problems of your random crashes are heat related, remove your fan >for >instance and the CPU fails after a short period of time. > >Intel are prefered in the server role, I would therefore prefer to >have >Intel CPUs on my desktop. I do consider the Intel range to be more >stable processors, simply because of their better architecture, and >better heat emissions. > >However, on the positive side, AMD to have better performance per >CPU >cycle, so on that front I prefer AMD.
Whats that old saying; that nobody got fired for buying Intel, taken from another old saying that nobody got fired for buying IBM. I think that Intel marketing department is really pushing out the FUD, if you believe that Intel is prefered in servers, then you need to read up on recent CPU news. Would you really want a Prescott P4 in a blade server? I use the best chip for the job, sometimes its AMD, other times its Intel. Intel's new chips except for the Pentium M, are power hogs. Have you seen the heatsinks that the prescott requires can you say 1 kilogram, also what about Intel new BTX form factor? If you thought that the Athlon was hot, just wait for the newer chips from Intel. As far as leaving your computer on, doesn't anyone else use a distributed client, such as seti, folding at home, or RC5-72? If my system cannot hold up under 24/7 distributed work then something is wrong with the hardware. As far as hardware is concerned, if you buy that Intel board, its a good chance its fabed to a subcontractor such as Hon Hai, or Foxconn which also supplies boards to such companies as Dell. It really is buyer beware on hardware, if you like Asus or tier 1 boards make sure its good, Asus had a bunch of bad Nforce boards a while back. Abit, MSI have been know to have bad capacitors, which flooded the market some time back. Also some of the tier 1 manufactures use the same fabs as ECS and others. When I buy my boards I make sure it has a three year warranty, and I try to stick with a company that has good customer support, you know just in case. I also try to buy the best PSU's as most of my hardware problems are PSU related. The only manufacture that I know of who has stated they only use capacitors from Japan is Albatron. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
