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[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 21:00, Dan Chen wrote:
> I personally feel AMD took some shortcuts in the Athlons' designs which
> have led to a rising number of problems. Windows users have thus far
> been shielded from a great many of these and the blasted VIA chipset
> problems. We're not quite so lucky.


Just a data point:

I've purchased, setup, and personally maintained six AMD Athlon systems
(some Linux-only and two now dual-booting Linux and WinXP) over the past
three years in two research labs.  Four were VIA chipsets and two were
AMD chipsets.  All of them have been reliable and fast machines.  The
only hardware problems that I've experienced have been bad CDRWs, flaky
video cards, and linux sound support for the AC97 drivers (which is now
fixed and seems to work well).

I've not had any stability problems with the Athlons or with the
supporting chipsets.  In my experience, they've been quite reliable.

Ed


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