Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon?

["Kris Kersey (Augustus)" <augustus@linuxhardware.org>]

Not to start an argument but from personal experience I have never had a 
problem with NVIDIA or Broadcom chips.  Sometimes Marvell has not been as 
good though.

Thanks,
Kris Kersey (Augustus)
LinuxHardware.org Site Manager
augustus@linuxhardware.org
Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer
augustus@gentoo.org
AIM: Augustus22

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, P.V.Anthony wrote:

> 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
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