Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

Timothy Miller
2004-02-24T13:22:25Z

John Heil wrote:

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> 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.