OT: AMD vs Intel

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> 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/

While that's not a bad place to go for a good idea of what does or does 
not suck, its usually not too useful for Linux specific usage scenarios.


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