Is AMD stable?

[Sunbird]

How stable would a 1GHz Thunderbird be on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX compared to a Pentium III on a Gigabyte GA-6OX?

A friend tells me the Athlons are unstable and causes more problems with WIN98 SE. Is that true?

The case I'm getting is a AOpen with 300W PSU and and a Coolermaster HSF rated for 1.2GHz Athlons.

And I'm not gonna overclock because it's for a business PC and I can't use a different motherboard make.

Any comments would be appreciated, I don't want to give my client a bad PC if I can help it.

 

[Vegito]

The chips are stable, it's the mobo chipset thats giving you problems. Buy a VIA chipset for P3 will also give you some problem. Having a good mobo will also make a difference.. buying generic is bad..

 

[Noriaki]

<< The chips are stable, it's the mobo chipset thats giving you problems. Buy a VIA chipset for P3 will also give you some problem. Having a good mobo will also make a difference.. buying generic is bad.. >>

That about sums it up.
But with the newest v4.32V 4in1 drivers even Via motherboards are mostly stable.

My hybrid AMD/Via chipset is perfectly stable, I haven't seen a single crash on it in Win98SE or WinXP (I had some ATi driver problems in Win2k that caused me some issues there).

In the business world there is still generally the perception that Intel is better. If as tech you buy an AMD system, and that AMD system has a problem, you'll get fired. If you bought an Intel system and it had problems, you'd just call the vendor and complain.

Businesses still won't trust AMD. The other day we set up a few PCs for seriously FPU intensive stuff, and we had to use P4s with 1Gig of RDRAM because the business won't trust AMD.
An Athlon with 1Gig of DDR would have cost a LOT less and performed alot better in this application (and it's not even that critical), but we got a big no on AMD.

And considering AMD's track record I can't blame them really.
Intel had one major chipset fudge (the i820) but other than that their chispet record is pretty well flawless, AMD's (using Via) is far from it.

But a well built carefully put together AMD rig can be very stable today. Yesterday is old news, but most managers are old people.

 

[Budman]

<< Is AMD stable? >>



Is the pope catholic?

 

[Sunbird]

Thanks for the info so far, luckily here in South Africa AMD is almost as big as Intel. So it's not a problem to sell them to businesses.

I was just worried because I'm starting out on my own and don't want to give my first customer some crashing machine from hell

 

[Mem]

In general yes,I went from Intel to AMD with no problems infact my current AMD PC is very stable,however I would recommend you use quality parts in AMD systems like good memory,PSU,approved Heatsink/fan etc and you will be on the right track.

 

[Noriaki]

Ah ok well then you're lucky

AMD CPUs won't give you an trouble, and with the latest Via 4in1s Via shouldn't either.

Just don't use cheapo generic RAM or PSUs or anything.
But that's not a good idea for any system you want to be stable.

 

[Sunbird]

Thanks guys.

Everything I'm gonna use is AMD approved and I have now downloaded the newest 4in1 drivers.

I have to go sleep now. Tomorrow is gonna be a long PC building day. Ahhh! It's almost tomorrow here.