Re: [TCLUG:18492] AMD vs. Intel

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

The AMD750 and AMD751 chipsets did not work well with AGP 4x and Nvidia
cards.  I am not sure how other cards were affected, but Nvidia was the
worst hit.  Many MoBos use the VIA chipsets for AGP - so it wasn't an issue
with them.  It had nothing to do with the Athlon processor itself.

BTW - I will never buy another machine with VIA chips in it.  They don't
release timely code or respond to email from support.  I NEED to get the VIA
IDE-BUSMASTERING drivers for Windows 2000 (for work) and they STILL don't
have any working drivers available.  The drivers shipping in Windows 2000
don't support UDMA66 on a large number of drives and chipset combinations
(VIA chipsets of course).

FreeBSD 4.0 has full support for the same chips - and I believe that the
Linux 2.4 kernel will work properly for them as well.  I can say that early
2.3.99pre kernels still dropped my UDMA66 drive to PIO mode.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Hillman <ehillman@cccu.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG:18492] AMD vs. Intel


> > If you're big into 3D, I still recommend Intel, because 3D card drivers
tend
> > to support SSE a bit better than 3dNow! instructions.  However, for a
> > nice powerful machine that won't break the bank, go with Athlon.
>
>
> Speaking of 3D: I don't know if this is still an issue, but a while back
there
> were some problems with AMD cards & mobos not supporting AGP at high bus
rates -
> 2x or 3x...  I'm a little fuzzy on the details, unfortunately.  AMD was
being
> awfully quiet about this issue at the time.
>
> In my experience, Intel has always been the more stable & high-performance
> gaming/3D platform, Mhz for Mhz.  For a plain ol' boring vanilla
workstation,
> AMD gets you a little more bang for the buck, though.
>
> This is all, of course, barring overclocking, dual-Celeron setups and
other
> kinkiness.
>
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