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AMD And THG update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burning-down-the-house dept.

Mhrmnhrm writes "In the interests of responsible journalism, the gang over at Tom's Hardware has developed this article in the interests of setting the record straight about their original AMD burn-out video, and the new release (possibly from AMD) of this past week. It would seem that BOTH videos are correct, and that the question of whether or not somebody is hiding something depends entirely upon your own point of view."

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  1. I still wouldnt get an Athlon or any AMD chip. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll


    Still prefer Intel chips. If I'm going to get an
    X86 box, i'd still go with intel. Why? Intel stuff is just better engineered. More specifically, Intel CPUs and motherboards are the more stable, better tested combination.

    I dont know of any hardware site that says that an AMD cpu + some AMD or VIA motherboard can even approach the stability of Intel CPU+chipset.

    My current box is a P4 2GHz (socket 478), Intel 850MV motherboard (tho an Asus P4T is probably just as good), 512Mb PC800 DRDRAM. It runs Linux and FreeBSD very well.

    I'd urge Linux users not to dismiss Intel chips out of hand. You do pay for quality. Remeber these chips have SSE2 instructions (which even XPs dont have and probably never will), the thermal diode *IS* a kill switch here -- you will not burn them up, much greater memory bandwith than with DDR, they overclock decently (you can usually get 200MHz above spec), and benchmark very well.

    Definitely go with i850 and RDRAM, the 845 is meant for low-end situations and doesnt perform nearly as well.

    The bottom line for me is stability -- I dont think AMD can match Intel CPUs and chipset for that. Look in the Linux kernel source code -- VIA chipsets have many PCI quirks that Intel boards just dont have.

  2. Backpeddling by Tinfoil · · Score: 0, Troll

    Tom has long been batting for AMD, and now that Intel has a better product he switched sides. The video of the smoking chip is hype. It didn't show many people at all anything they didn't already know. We all knew that AMD ran hot, and we all know that if your cpu fan starts growling that you need to replace it. All I want to know is whether this was a stunt to get even MORE traffic or to get Intel to send him more shirts and coffee cups.. Long live ars and [H]

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    tinfoilmedia