I've been running AMDs in my last three machines: a 1ghz thunderbird, a 2500+ Barton (running at 3200+ speeds), and this one; a 3000+ venice64 running at 2.2ghz as of this morning. (Stock speed is 1.8ghz.)
I've never had stability problems with any of these machines, I think you must have gotten a flakey mobo or RAM or something. AMD is pretty renowned these days for rock-solid processors.
This upgrade was prompted by a lot of things. Mostly it was that I needed a new video card for gaming and my old mobo was AGP based. Everything's PCI-e these days, so I needed to upgrade my mobo if I was going to do video card, and at that point it's basically a new system anyway, so wtf. go whole hog.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:15 pm (UTC)I've never had stability problems with any of these machines, I think you must have gotten a flakey mobo or RAM or something. AMD is pretty renowned these days for rock-solid processors.
This upgrade was prompted by a lot of things. Mostly it was that I needed a new video card for gaming and my old mobo was AGP based. Everything's PCI-e these days, so I needed to upgrade my mobo if I was going to do video card, and at that point it's basically a new system anyway, so wtf. go whole hog.