I've used AMD chips in a Win95 box to play _many_ hours of Dune2000 and never noticed a problem. Maybe someone has done this poll already?
John Hebert --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using intel in this particular machine. > > Shannon > > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:30, Boyd Davezac wrote: > > Not sure if this makes a difference, but I have > never had an Intel chip > > always AMD and one Cyrix (when their chips were > good). But I have been > > complaining about Windows crashing on my machine > to everyone and it has come > > to my attention that a lot of people don't have > these problems. Those people > > that don't always have an intel chip. Just > yesterday I watched a friend of > > mine's Win98 crash horribly about 5 times in an > hour. He is the self > > proclaimed Blue Screen King. However, he, like me > has an AMD chip. So I am > > wondering if I can take a pole to see if people > whose machines often crash > > have an AMD chip? > > > > Boyd > > > > P.S. I found that ocasionally Linux locks up on my > machine when playing > > Unreal Tournament. But I think this is due to poor > ventilation on my chip > > which is a whole other argument about heatsink/fan > engineers that design > > their fan to sit right where the motherboard power > supply goes. AARRRGH! > > DON'T BUY COMPUSA HEATSINKS. > > > > > > >From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:42, Grant Belgard wrote: > > > > Today we had a slide show presentation at > Baton Rouge > > > > High with pictures of students throughout the > year. > > > > The laptop was running Powerpoint (obviously > on > > > > Windows) and it crashed halfway through. It > took so > > > > long to reboot that we didn't have enough time > to see > > > > any more. The mob of about 1,200 was ready to > have > > > > Bill Gates' head. I have a feeling that the > "Windows" > > > > bar on that chart is going to jump over a few > more > > > > places to the right this evening... > > > > > > > > > > > > Grant > > > > > >My windows experience for the day has been > installing win 2000 server on > > >a fresh, clean machine and going to the windows > update, installing the > > >service pack & critical updates, then rebooting > the machine. It would > > >not boot after that! It hangs at some point - > and no matter how long I > > >let it sit there, it will not finish booting! > The *&$*#&$^&@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ > > >machine is two hours old - and winblows has > already died!!!!! > > > > > >Shannon > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: > http://messenger.msn.com > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > -- > __________________________________________________________________ > Shannon Roddy California Institute > of Technology > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston > Observatory > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
