[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 30/01/2008, at 8:09 AM, jonathan michaels wrote:

> i had almost decided to go down teh amd route but given teh amd
> 64 bit things happening in -stable and sillingp over frrmo the
> amd/64/whatever 'lists i alos read several other bsd 'lists  to
> do with relevetn targets and it is starting to look like
> perhaps the amd 64 bit cpu is perhaps not quite ready for bsd
> prime time ??? laptop/desktop/server/whatever/???
>
> i have been partial to teh intel zeon since it started as a
> pentium pro (ok something like that) ... i had settled on teh
> amd offering but now i'm not so sure which fork in teh road, is
> it amd 64 bit or is it to be teh 64 bit zeon ??

As people have already said, it's more the chip-set on the motherboard  
than the cpu which gives you grief. But in my experience the Intel  
chips are more stable, I'v had a few AMD cpus die for no apparent  
reason.. Personally I feel that currently the Intel Xeon chips offer  
the best performance, that may change but I'v had a lot of faith  
restored in Intel over the past few years..

You want to look very carefully at the motherboard though, I would  
avoid any VIA chip-set boards personally as I'v always had issues with  
them.

FYI, my next system will be a dual quad core Xeon =p