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John Heil wrote:

> 
> 
> I'll second that.
> 
> For whatever it's worth I replaced all my intel business boxes w AMD
> w the advent of the K7/Athlon's and haven't looked back since,
> including SMP. Next up for us will be dual Opteron. I cannot see
> ever returning to Intel.
> 


This is not a comment in favor of Intel... just a lament...

Things may have changed, but when I last built a Linux box (Athlon XP 
2800+), I was not able to find a motherboard for recent AMD processors 
with 64bit/66mhz PCI slots.  If I'd needed that, I would have had to go 
with Intel.