OT: AMD vs Intel

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:07 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.

I often look at Tomshardware for their reviews.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/19/toms_socket_am2_motherboard_summer_slam/

Vu