[vorbis] Are AMDs preferable? [was: Choosing a processor]

[Craig Dickson]

Dan Hollis wrote:

> I had tons of irq-sharing and instability problems on intel chipsets with
> pentiums, celerons, etc.
> 
> My recent VIA+Athlon has been 100% problem-free, first time in about 3
> years of PC hardware purchases.

Everyone's mileage varies on this sort of thing, it seems. I've used nothing
but Intel P2, P3, Celeron, and Coppermine-Celeron systems for the last few
years and had no troubles of this sort. Right now I'm typing this on a 700 MHz
Coppermine-Celeron system with an i810-based motherboard. It was a mild pain to
get set up with Linux (or, rather, with X) only because i810 support wasn't
built into the Debian 2.2 kernel, but once I found documentation on how to fix
that (thank you, Google), all was well. There are faster machines out there,
but by and large I'm quite happy with it.

Craig

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