-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0400 Lennart Sorensen said: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:02:02AM +0000, Sam Varghese wrote: > > I have used both Intel and AMD dual-core and find AMD better for my work; > > I'm basing this on one thing, the speed of processing video files. > > Which intel? The P4 was a piece of [EMAIL PROTECTED] design wise. The Core > 2 is > nothing like it. The Core 2 seems to beat the Athlon 64 X2 on > everything. The P4/Pentium D hardly ever beat the X2 on anything.
The Core 2. > > I had an ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard but the graphics cooler died and I > > could only get a GA-K8NF-9 as replacement. > > Graphics cooler? What does that have to do with A8N-SLI? It's a little fan next to the graphics chip, comes on the motherboard. Once it starts making a racket, you can live with the noise or else get the board replaced. I chose the latter option. > > I've found the smaller WD drives to be flaky; the bigger SATA ones are as > > good or as bad as Seagate. You won't find drives of the quality of the > > Quantum Fireball anymore. > > I was so annoyed when Quentum moved the HD business to maxtor. :( > > > First thing after building, boot from a Knoppix live CD and run memtest to > > pick up any memory errors. I agree about Kingston. > > The experience of many people (at least on Athlon 64 systems and > Opterons) is that memtest will not catch a lot of problems caused by ram > that isn't quite compatible with the amd memory controller. Perhaps it > is ram that isn't quite up to the spec it claims to be. The AMD memory > controller seems to expect things to do what they claim and drives them > to the limit (good for perforamnce after all). Best way to find out if > ram is causing a problem is to swap it out with something else and see > if the problem goes away in that case. My experience has been different so I'll agree to disagree. Sam - -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGaJ1UZyXhknb+33gRAj11AJ92e0aORu7jlQ30xzJ9FsliI5L1RQCgi0Nv SNqj4eUry15Nq0RB1+wnk4o= =Hd4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]