[plug] OT: Anyone not like Durons?

[Beau Kuiper]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:

> To Steve and Brother
>
> I have two AMD based machines, my Athlon 950 is always running, and apart
> from a few maintenance based shutdowns has been running continuously for
> about 10 months. My Duron 750 is up and down all the time being
> transported to customers sites and runs both Win98 and Linux 2.2.17
> without missing a beat. I also build and maintain computers systems and
> will only supply AMD/ VIA/ Award based systems. I will not however use
> any Abit mainboards as I have a good friend using one of the later Abit
> boards and going bald at his own hand attempting to get the thing going
> in any form of stable using M$ Operating applications (windows 98 or
> 2000).
>
> For my money I would use an Asus M/B and it must have an Award BIOS or I
> will not attempt to use it or supply it to a customer.
>
AOpen boards are also excelent (as long as you don't want to overclock)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au