Well, in the case I have had to deal with directly, it didn't work. Supermicro motherboards have always been rock solid for me and that is what I want to stick with. Maybe, if I see more of my friends have better experiences with their setups, then I might give AMD another try. Until then, I don't want to spend any more money on AMD.
Itanium is backwards compatible!!!
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x86 code can run on an Itanium processor but it is non-native so it runs slower. AMD got Microsoft support and now we see the same tactics of FUD! Lets move forward to a new architecture rather than living in the past with x86. X-Scale here we come!!!! =)
I don't know how many people will go for this...
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Unfortunately, AMD may make great chips but I really don't see anything out there from the big/stable/well-tested motherboard makers that would make me want to use any AMD technology in a mission critical system. Case in point, I have a dual-proc P3-500 running Linux that has an uptime of 342 days. It runs on my internal network as a print/file/app server for a windows network. I tried running an Athlon system but it would randomly lock up once ever 120-145 hours. We finally traced the problem to a manufacturing defect in a whole batch of motherboards. I ended up replacing the motherboard and now it runs as a windows system in one of the kids rooms since it doesn't need long up times. AMD has to get the chipsets working in a stable fashion such that they can be trust for "real work"(tm).
You're exactly right, it is the data density that matters. The problem with CD media is that the density is stuck so the only way to speed things up is to get the CD spinning faster. Hard drives of the same physical size today compared to those just 5 years ago (usually) have the same number of platters, but the density of those platters has gone up along with the amount of data that can be transferred.
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Well, in the case I have had to deal with directly, it didn't work. Supermicro motherboards have always been rock solid for me and that is what I want to stick with. Maybe, if I see more of my friends have better experiences with their setups, then I might give AMD another try. Until then, I don't want to spend any more money on AMD.
x86 code can run on an Itanium processor but it is non-native so it runs slower. AMD got Microsoft support and now we see the same tactics of FUD! Lets move forward to a new architecture rather than living in the past with x86. X-Scale here we come!!!! =)
Unfortunately, AMD may make great chips but I really don't see anything out there from the big/stable/well-tested motherboard makers that would make me want to use any AMD technology in a mission critical system. Case in point, I have a dual-proc P3-500 running Linux that has an uptime of 342 days. It runs on my internal network as a print/file/app server for a windows network. I tried running an Athlon system but it would randomly lock up once ever 120-145 hours. We finally traced the problem to a manufacturing defect in a whole batch of motherboards. I ended up replacing the motherboard and now it runs as a windows system in one of the kids rooms since it doesn't need long up times. AMD has to get the chipsets working in a stable fashion such that they can be trust for "real work"(tm).
You're exactly right, it is the data density that matters. The problem with CD media is that the density is stuck so the only way to speed things up is to get the CD spinning faster. Hard drives of the same physical size today compared to those just 5 years ago (usually) have the same number of platters, but the density of those platters has gone up along with the amount of data that can be transferred.