Dear Paul:
Intel has large numbers of errata (not bugs) in even their server CPUs: " developer.intel.com ". Just look at the number of bugs not fixed in the lastest revision that cause lockups, deadlocks, bad L2 data, failures to boot, and even cache incoherency problems. And this is not unreliable? Athlon has 3 errata and none of these cause a crash, a lockup, or even bad data.
I especially note the G85 bug, the processor may be inconsistent, if subjected to low voltage and/or high temperature. Note, this affects the 933 and 1GHz Xeon P3s. Isn't that sound like a much tighter tolerance than typical for a server CPU? Sounds like a overclocked CPU that doesn't quite measure up.
Intel Xeon a error ridden buggy unreliable CPU by Ed's standards. And we have yet to discuss chipsets, motherboards, and other system bugs, errors, unreliabilities, and blow-ups.
Pete |
