Which System To Buy??

[Kropotkin]

I do agree with you, though, that the older AMD XP systems, particularly with a VIA chipset sucked.

Like a Athlon XP 2100+ (Palomino) on a VIA KT400?

I have to agree with you there... Somebody mail me money!

 

[kongwane]

ok guys thanks for flaming me ... I have had AMD PCs in the past and they have been piece of sihts all of them ... there are always some driver issues, you need to upgrade your bios/chipset drivers every week and some other crap like that. Not to mention the blue screens, freezing etc. I don't seem to remember an AMD PC that worked straight out of the box properly, although after substantial amount of pain you can get it to work.

Since I moved to intel, I have not seen blue screen, and linux works far better too, no need for fancy drivers and crap like that.

When I posted my opinion about AMD, I rather meant that the AMD platforms are pain in the arse, not the CPU chip itself. I haven't seen any worst chipset than VIA for example! Don't know how they survive still. Not to mention SIS and other inferior stuff. The other day was comparing Intel ICH7R with one of the nForce chipsets, sorry but nForce has a long way to go.

Bottom line:
entusiast PC, AMD is the way to go
reliable, easy to setup and install platform, Intel is the way to go

by the way, when I say Intel, I mean Intel CPU + Intel chipset, if you put intel CPU with some crap VIA or SIS chipset you are looking for the same trouble as with AMD

evertime me and my friends LAN up our PC's, we have at least 2 guys running AMD systems. There computers are such a pain in the rear, there comstantly freezing, constant blue screens and loads of errors (even after formating and updating). we end up spending the whole night trying to fix there PC's, and end getting no gaming done.

 

[eye_suc]

evertime me and my friends LAN up our PC's, we have at least 2 guys running AMD systems. There computers are such a pain in the rear, there comstantly freezing, constant blue screens and loads of errors (even after formating and updating). we end up spending the whole night trying to fix there PC's, and end getting no gaming done.

they running old amd's? never had probs with my Duron 700, xp 2000+ or my A64 3500+. no BSOD.

guess its one of those preference things. people will like what they like.

 

[rburley]

evertime me and my friends LAN up our PC's, we have at least 2 guys running AMD systems. There computers are such a pain in the rear, there comstantly freezing, constant blue screens and loads of errors (even after formating and updating). we end up spending the whole night trying to fix there PC's, and end getting no gaming done.

ha whats funny is i had the completely oppposite experience.
My old P3, and P4 used to be a pain, with freezing etc.
My AMD 2800 which is about 2 years old has NEVER frozen.

I suppose i was a nooB bk then tho, u sure your friends just dont service their computers properly

 

[nGAGEd55]

Only problem i'v had with an AMD system was that the mobo was not that lekka, costant BSOD, but that was a VIA chipset, which is crap

 

[rburley]

Only problem i'v had with an AMD system was that the mobo was not that lekka, costant BSOD, but that was a VIA chipset, which is crap

lol i had a via on my P3, utter ****.
Gigabytes the way to go

 

[kongwane]

my bra's service there PC very well, maybe we just keep having badluck.

 

[Claymore]

I've sold AMD-powered systems exclusively since 1997, and haven't had any problems with any of them. Since I'm the guy who supports them when they have problems, I have a great deal of interest in making sure they're reliable. I make sure I use decent motherboards (nowadays, Gigabyte), memory and peripherals. Had no particular issues with chipsets, except a couple of compatibility problems with an ALI chipset on my own PC back in the late 90s. No issues with VIA chipsets at all.