Originally posted by: Rainsford
Try Here. As you can see, Anandtech does indeed run AMD based servers.
Thank you for providing us with this link, the pictures were very nice.
In fact, they moved to AMD away from Intel.
Let's not stretch it, from all the information available, Intel has never powered a single appliance on this site. Don't forget what brought about the very birth of this site Rainsford...
Anandtech relies 100% on their servers for their business
From what I read, AnandTech had about 8 months of stability problems with their new Athlon setup. I guess this is where I make my point, and you do for me as well, thank you.
that should tell you something about their confidence in AMD servers.
As well they should. But the point you're missing/concealing in your arguement is that very (with a capital V) few people in these forums run Tyan Thunderbird K7's with an AMD 760 chipset. And even fewer run this setup with any kind of graphics card in them. Now, what are you trying to prove to us here? That AMD MP cpus run in conjunction with Tyan Thunder MB's with no graphics cards (or PCI cards)
in them is somewhat stable? I will agree then. But the systems are not being taxed like a home user taxes their systems. Yes the AMD 760 chipset can communicate reliably with the ram and the cpu, this is hardly taxing the chipset is it? Throw in a graphics card. Throw in a USB chipset. Throw in a sound card. Now we are starting to tax even the 760. Make it run more than a couple pieces of software. You see, the communication between the graphics, cpu, sound, and ram to the 760 makes it work. It also develops more chances of looping something along the way (and if you know computers like I think you do, you will have to agree with me). Now, I mentioned specifically Via chipsets. AMD in conjunction with Via is not stable enough to want to run AnandTech on (even without graphics and sound). Sorry Rainsford, but AMD/Via has stability problems, and the examples you and Kell have handed out are proof of what? That I can compare apples to apples and you can throw in an orange and think it's "trump"? You guys need to do better, you couldn't trump a 2 with an ace and you got a full house to boot (AMD Fanboys).