OT: AMD vs Intel

[Ken Moffat]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Kurt Wall wrote:
>   
>> On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>     
>>> Here's an interesting article comparing nearly identical systems
>>> from HP
>>> where one uses AMD/nVidia and the other Intel. The AMD/nVidia system
>>> seems to come out better in almost every way and costs $80 less.
>>>
>>>    http://www.silentpcreview.com/article735-page1.html
>>>
>>> Or you can skip to the 'Conclusions' page:
>>>
>>>    http://www.silentpcreview.com/article735-page5.html
>>>       
>> Especially interesting when one considers that AMD now owns (or is about
>> to own) ATI.
>>     
>
>
> I just wish AMD would better market their stuff.  I know pretty much what 
> processors do what for Intel, but AMD I'm still wondering which ones support 
> AMD-v (the yet again new name for their virtual-machine code)
>
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You sure can't beat the price of the AMD 64x2 chips. Can anyone 
recommend a cheap motherboard that might work with those AM2 socket 
chips and linux?