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 1Iqzg8-0007Th-GY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:23:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAANLJWS021028; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:21:19 GMT Received: from penguin.linuxhardware.org (penguin.linuxhardware.org [63.173.68.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAANLIP6021009 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:21:18 GMT Received: by penguin.linuxhardware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5AC261E94E; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by penguin.linuxhardware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C171E8F0 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:21:18 +0000 (UTC) From: "Kris Kersey (Augustus)" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Planning a new box - AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon? In-Reply-To: <4735E8F2.3060302@singnet.com.sg> Message-ID: References: <20071110081152.4065e4db@mandalor.homelinux.net> <4735E8F2.3060302@singnet.com.sg> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: d0c59f85-b848-4f71-b895-06624e550833 X-Archives-Hash: 15a8efdd8f59cde0d64c1647fea13d0c 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 > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list