Byte claiming all single-processor AMD chipsets unstable

[NFS4]

Just saw this over at VIA Hardware...ticks me off!!:|:|

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7026/byt1014845192039/0304_pournelle.html

 

[Zlash]

Well that's obviously not true.

 

[NFS4]

<< Well that's obviously not true. >>


Well, of course it's not.

 

[nortexoid]

moron....

anyway, who the hell reads byte?...magazine - obviously - bytes.

(ahoy!)

 

[AGodspeed]

That's so utterly and pathetically untrue that I even question the need for a bandwidth-wasting thread such as this.

Byte.com has been writing crap for a long time, this is no surprise...

 

[Zlash]

hehe

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

oh come on, all amd chips are unstable, you have to use a pentium. and windows. and office. visual studio. anyone want a BJ?

 

[j@cko]

We shall kidnap that son of b!tch.. and toture him until he admits AMD is not unstable.

 

[NFS4]

<< oh come on, all amd chips are unstable, you have to use a pentium. and windows. and office. visual studio. anyone want a BJ? >>


Throw me Nicole Kidman and a glass of iced tea and maybe we can talk

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<<

<< oh come on, all amd chips are unstable, you have to use a pentium. and windows. and office. visual studio. anyone want a BJ? >>


Throw me Nicole Kidman and a glass of iced tea and maybe we can talk >>


i'm not sure what the iced tea is uh...for...:Q

 

[Pocatello]

<< We shall kidnap that son of b!tch.. and toture him until he admits AMD is not unstable >>


More likely, AMD supporters are unstable

 

[NFS4]

<<

<<

<< oh come on, all amd chips are unstable, you have to use a pentium. and windows. and office. visual studio. anyone want a BJ? >>


Throw me Nicole Kidman and a glass of iced tea and maybe we can talk >>


i'm not sure what the iced tea is uh...for...:Q >>


The iced tea is for me...Nicole and I will require our own private room as well.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<<

<< We shall kidnap that son of b!tch.. and toture him until he admits AMD is not unstable >>


More likely, AMD supporters are unstable >>


hah

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< Jerry Pournelle, Ph.D., is a science-fiction writer >>

 

[nortexoid]

<< anyone want a BJ? >>


what the hell - sure.

 

[NFS4]

Ouch, check out his current mail for this column:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/currentmail.html

 

[AGodspeed]

LMAO, there's a bunch of comedians in this thread.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< Ouch, check out his current mail for this column:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/currentmail.html >>

bwhahahahahha, read the one from Weyland Corporation

 

[NFS4]

<<

<< Ouch, check out his current mail for this column:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/currentmail.html >>

bwhahahahahha, read the one from Weyland Corporation >>


Now THAT is a true flamer!

 

[kgraeme]

686B bug, PCI Latency issues, USB renumeration problems, etc.

For some things VIA boards work great. For others, they can be a nightmare of little issues that never quite get sorted out. Though VIA has supposedly issued fixes for the above problems, they don't always work in every case. My system is now about 95% stable, but some things, like video production/encoding of multi-gigabyte files can send it into a spin.

His remark was sweeping and generalized, but not entirely incorrect. There are more pampering issues to deal with for VIA chipsets. Just look around here for how many little problems people have that are just flakiness issues.

 

[NFS4]

<< 686B bug, PCI Latency issues, USB renumeration problems, etc.

For some things VIA boards work great. For others, they can be a nightmare of little issues that never quite get sorted out. Though VIA has supposedly issued fixes for the above problems, they don't always work in every case. My system is now about 95% stable, but some things, like video production/encoding of multi-gigabyte files can send it into a spin.

His remark was sweeping and generalized, but not entirely incorrect. There are more pampering issues to deal with for VIA chipsets. Just look around here for how many little problems people have that are just flakiness issues. >>


But how could he possibly leave out:

AMD
ALI
NVIDIA

AMD chipsets being buggy and unstable? That's the first I've heard of it (early AMD750's not withstanding).

 

[AGodspeed]

AMD, SiS, nVidia, and ALi all make perfectly good and stable chipsets. These companies' chipsets have the same level of mainboard support as Intel's chipsets do. Even VIA makes some very good chipsets, as is proven by the KT266A and KT333.

The whole argument that "AMD is unstable" is ludicrious. Has been for quite some time.

 

[jeffrey]

"In practice I have installed random Athlon chips bought from New Egg and it runs find."

How can anyone take this seriously when it hasn't even been proofread.

 

[WilsonTung]

<< Now, though, AMD has come out with the 760 MPX chip set for dual-processor systems and every report I have, as well as my own experience, says these are rock solid, more than good enough. We have built a Dual Athlon system on a Tyan motherboard, and installed an ATI RADEON video board. The result is a terrific high-end video-processing system with no problems I can find. Because it's largely intended for video, I'm going to leave it to Alex Pournelle and David Em to really put it through its paces, but my experiences have been all to the good. >>



Ok, so you guys say he's a moron, yet he praises the MPX to high heaven.

Of course, I do completely agree that he should have provided some examples of issues with the single processor boards/chipsets rather than just making a blanket statement concerning them.

 

[rickn]

guy that wrote that article is an idiot. The 761 chipset has been just as stable as any intel chipset I've ever owned.

NFS4 doesnt want the tea, just the ice...possibly to get nicole to give him a titty piercing