On Sad, 2003-08-02 at 17:34, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
>       You can't go wrong with an AMD chipset.   I've never thought much
>       of the VIA chips (problems abound with those it seems - the archives
>       of this group should have quite a few horror stories)

>From my own experience the later AMD chipsets are a *lot* better. The
corruption and SBLive mess was a very good reason to worry about the
older ones but not the newer stuff. 

>       Alas, from what I've seen the best (but slightly more expensive)
>       way to get the AMD chipset is on a dual cpu board.    You don't have
>       to run multiple cpus of course so you can save a bit of money that
>       way.

AMD76x is slow by modern standards - look at the ram bandwidth and
latency numbers. It also doesn't support the newest processors. Except
for the "need a ps/2" mouse they seem very reliable.




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