Here is my opinion as a hardware technician: K6-3 and below are problematic (with the possible exception ,of the K6-2). If you use one of the earlier AMD chips you can expect some sort of problem. Also, most of the first motherboards to support Athlons were buggy, and this made the chips look bad. Durons and Athlon XPs are great! That being said, ALL AMDs run HOT so you better have a good fan, with thermal compound between the chip and heatsink. I currently run a Duron with Linux, and a Athlon 1500XP with Windows XP. I don't have problems with either.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boyd Davezac Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [brluglist] windows sucks 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. ================================================ ================================================ 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. ================================================
