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

[Jernej Simonèiè]

Hello ndrw,

29. maj 2001, 21:24:58, you wrote:

> fungus <spam at egg.chips.and.spam.com> wrote:
> : ndrw mchl grnbrg wrote:
: >> 
: >> The problem with AMD's processors is that the only company that seems to
: >> make motherboard chipsets for them is VIA, and they seem to be having
: >> trouble making a product that is 100% stable. I'm sure that others have
: >> had better luck than I have, but my experiences with VIA-based system
: >> boards have not been pleasant ones.
: >> 
> : 
> : I just upgraded to an Athlon three weeks ago and haven't seen
> : any problems at all (and I spend all day doing 3D graphics
> : with AGP 4x enabled). It just worked.
> : 
> : FWIW, my board had a "reccomended by AMD" label on it.

> It's possible the newest batch of chipsets are better. Most of the
> problems I ran into were related to IRQ-sharing, btw.

I've got T-bird 800 on Abit KT7 raid motherboard, and the only problem
I encounterd was with USB (my scanner kept crashing), but that was
fixed.

Jernej Simoncic, jernej.simoncic at guest.arnes.si
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/
ICQ: 26266467

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