Hey there Heroine Paul,
That blurb you keep reposting is from many months ago and chronicles what happens when you load the wrong drivers for a given network card or disk controller - regardless of system.
We have a number of Athlon MP systems installed, and they have been, so far, 100% trouble free and none has yet crashed or locked up. Included in the work we do is the vectorization of rasterized images for GIS, and the file sizes of the images that are manipulated is as large as 1.7 gigabytes (the kind of thing that Intel's shared bus can choke on). We are also doing development with beta 2 of Visual Studio .net, and that is certainly putting a significant load on the systems, too.
If there were a problem with Athlon MP, we'd have seen it, and we haven't.
Meanwhile, our Intel SMP systmes (we use both Supermicro and Microstar SMP boards) lock up occasionally - I suppose that's just the price you pay when two CPUs are contesting for a single bus as opposed to AMD's more stable and robust point-to-point design.
I work with both AMD and Intel SMP systems - you don't - and I've personally seen that Intel based systems lock up, while the AMD based systems don't.
The Intel systems are pretty good, (actually, quite good once newer drivers were supplied and we sorted out which NICs the Intel systems couldn't handle) but the AMD systems were rock solid out of the box, and have worked with anything we've run them with.
And you are knowingly lying about Tyan having any trouble whatsoever with their boards - that's against the law to do on an investment board, but typical of the tactics used by Intel and ex-Intel staff. I'm sure you regularly lied and broke the law when you were with Intel (it's standard practice there) and you continue to do so now. You're a perfect representative for a company that sells its products using fraud and extortion, since the quality and performance of Intel's products isn't good enough to stand on its own in the marketplace. |
