[plug] OT: Anyone not like Durons?

[Christian Müller]

I have a duron with no probs at all

At 16:50 18/07/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>I thought I'd ask here as this is the most knowledgeable in general
>group of people I can think of in Perth and there seem to be some AMD
>advocates in here - has anyone had any bad experiences with either
>Athlon or Duron processors?  I have a brother who's looking at getting
>one but being told not to due to compatibility issues.  Most of the
>criticism comes from my flatmate who got one and says he will never
>touch one again due to
>1) The (Abit I think) mainboard was crap, he couldn't do things like
>assign IRQs and IOs to PCI slots which he needed to do for some legacy
>hardware he has.
>2) Software was more prone to crashing, in particular quake and need for
>speed were prone to sporadic crashes and his NIC configuration program
>would not load at all.
>3) Overall hardware ran "smoother" with the Pentium, for instance he has
>a Nvidia  GeForce2 MX video card and the manual explicitly states that
>it's *not* recommended for use with AMD chips.
>
>So my question is what gives?  Toms Hardware has nothing but good things
>to say about AMD, I've heard several people in here wax lyrical about
>them, I think Dennis even said he has that exact video card and is
>running with no problems.  I'm pretty sure my flatmate had the
>second-generation via chipset in his mainboard which I know people have
>mentioned.  So *are* you AMD owners happy with your processors?  And do
>any of you use windows and games with them much?  I imagine under linux
>it's smoother again as you can re-compile and optimise for whatever
>processor you want and the software should be more robust anyway *and*
>there's a higher level of technical proficiency here for solving
>problems that do arise.  Only problem is my brother isn't any of those
>things, but I'm sure someone here has used AMD and windoze and can say
>yay/nay.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
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