OT: AMD vs Intel

[Ken Moffat]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> Cheap, good, fast.  Pick 2.
>
>   
good (just decent, for home user desktop/server) and cheap (<$80). Could 
stand built in  nv6150 with  pci-e slot for later upgrade, a couple or 
more pci slots, sata 2. for AMD socket am2 processor. Newegg has too 
many to choose from, and good combo deals, so general guidelines (what 
to avoid?) would be great. I'm thinking amd64x2 3800 or so, nothing too 
fancy.