From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iqu4q-00063p-0q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:25:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAAHN1lh019459; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:23:01 GMT Received: from smtp43.singnet.com.sg (smtp43.singnet.com.sg [165.21.103.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAAHMxCB019451 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:23:00 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.101] (bb121-6-47-170.singnet.com.sg [121.6.47.170]) by smtp43.singnet.com.sg (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lAAHMu8c014022 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:22:56 +0800 Message-ID: <4735E8F2.3060302@singnet.com.sg> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:22:58 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon? References: <20071110081152.4065e4db@mandalor.homelinux.net> In-Reply-To: <20071110081152.4065e4db@mandalor.homelinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9eb575c0-0781-4188-8fc7-2c04f2c3a3fc X-Archives-Hash: d3554897a9d78594807145dd91019842 On this day, 10-November-2007 11:11 PM, Conway S. Smith wrote: > I'm in the planning stages of assembling a new box for myself @ home, > and I'm debating if I want to go with AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon. I've > been focusing on Tyan motherboards, as I've heard here on the list that > they've got really excellent Linux (and general) support. In the past > I've mostly gone w/ AMD CPUs, as they had a significantly better > price:performance ratio, but it's been a few years since I last did a > lot of shopping around, and I'm starting to think things may have > changed. I'm still leaning towards AMD Opterons (Barcelona), but I'm > interested in hearing everyone else's opinions. I know that AMD cpus are better but I had some problems with the onboard network chips. Most of the motherboards come with some Marvell, Broadcom or Nvidia network chips and these chips did not work for me. I choose Intel chipset motherboards with Intel network because their network cards are really good. The drivers in the kernel are really good for me. P.V.Anthony -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list