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Not to start an argument but from personal experience I have never had a |
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problem with NVIDIA or Broadcom chips. Sometimes Marvell has not been as |
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good though. |
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Thanks, |
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Kris Kersey (Augustus) |
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LinuxHardware.org Site Manager |
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augustus@×××××××××××××.org |
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Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer |
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augustus@g.o |
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AIM: Augustus22 |
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On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, P.V.Anthony wrote: |
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> On this day, 10-November-2007 11:11 PM, Conway S. Smith wrote: |
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>> I'm in the planning stages of assembling a new box for myself @ home, |
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>> and I'm debating if I want to go with AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon. I've |
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>> been focusing on Tyan motherboards, as I've heard here on the list that |
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>> they've got really excellent Linux (and general) support. In the past |
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>> I've mostly gone w/ AMD CPUs, as they had a significantly better |
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>> price:performance ratio, but it's been a few years since I last did a |
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>> lot of shopping around, and I'm starting to think things may have |
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>> changed. I'm still leaning towards AMD Opterons (Barcelona), but I'm |
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>> interested in hearing everyone else's opinions. |
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> I know that AMD cpus are better but I had some problems with the onboard |
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> network chips. Most of the motherboards come with some Marvell, Broadcom or |
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> Nvidia network chips and these chips did not work for me. |
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> I choose Intel chipset motherboards with Intel network because their network |
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> cards are really good. |
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> The drivers in the kernel are really good for me. |
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> P.V.Anthony |
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