AMD vs Intel [Was:Re:OT: PIII vs Celeron]

[John Moniz]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:34:23PM +0000, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>   
>> What are you using them for?
>> One thing to check out also is what the motherboards are. I'd probably
>> go with the AMD systems, but I've seen plenty of older AMD boards that
>> were no good (crappy onboard peripherals, blown/puffy caps, etc). I
>> don't buy a lot of Intel stuff myself, but I have seen more el-cheapo
>> AMD boards than Intel for some reason.
>>     
>
> I have seen plenty of cheap crappy boards.  Fortunately I have never
> bought any of them myself.
>
> Pretty much if you get an intel chipset board from Asus, it shold be
> good and work with any intel CPU (that the chipset supports).  If you go
> with an nvidia chipset it should also be quite good, although more
> expensive and usually aimed at the SLI crowd.
>
> For AMD, pretty much nvidia is the only chipset worth looking at,
> although I have used some via boards with success too, all from Asus of
> course (I haven't personally bought any non asus boards for about 15
> years now, and I have no intension of changing that).
>
> My mythtv upgrade a few months ago involved a P5K board with a Q6600 CPU
> and 2x1GB OCZ PC6400 low latency ram.  I am very happy with it, and it
> runs linux great.  If I had not specifically wanted to use an nvidia
> video card with it, I would have gone for the P5K-V with onboard intel
> video which works quite well too with linux.
One system has an ASUS M2N61-AR board with an NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE 
chipset. Another has an ECS 945GCT-HM board with Intel 945GC chipset.
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