Hi there, I've personally been an Intel person all along (though i do have one athlon in a Windows box that functions quite well). I just replaced my poor aging system with an Intel celeron 1.7ghz and an i845pebp2 Intel motherboard. i have been very happy with this configuration. The board has onboard sound, lan (10/100mbps) and raid support, as well as support for serial ata drives when they become widely available. The sata chip is a promice one not yet supported by Linux, but apparently it will be in 2.6. Coupled with 256mb ram, and an 80gb maxtor drive with 8mb of cache, the whole system flies along. Regards Aaron On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:12:36PM +0000, Scott Howell wrote: > Folks, > > Well it would seem that either my Athlon cpu or MSI board has punched > out. WHat I thought was an overheating issue seems to have progressed > into much uglier problems. I'll not bore you all with the details, but > the board gets power, but there is a chip near the power connector that > gets so damned hot it actually cna burn a finger. I can't recall this > chip getting so warm, but then that isn't saying much I can't recall if > it got that hot before. Yes stuff can get mighty hot on a board. > Ok here is the quesiton. I will have to likely replace the cpu or board > or perhaps both. Assuming the worst and I know some really hate and love > Intel and AMD, but for the money what would you suggest. > I know this will really open the door to debate and yes I can read lots > of reviews and such, but I'll ask in any case. > If I wanted to go with an intel processor, what would be the best board > for the money and if AMD the same question. > For the money and performance would an Intel be any better than an AMD? > I think the AMD chips are quite good myself, but the other question is > would it other than warranty reasons be better to go with retail box or > OEM. > Also is the retail cpus come with good heatsink/fans? Cooling is a > really big topic for me and I take a lot of time and effort to keep > things cooled well. I know these things need a lot of cooling as speed > increases and this has always been a concern for me. I do have the power > supply to handle either configuration. > Any thoughts appreciated. > > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
