Non committal answers

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Oldwolf

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I've worked at a lot, and I mean a lot! Of companies in the I.T. field and for the past 7 years, and I keep hearing about how my fellow professionals have always had "issues" or "problems" with either the AMD processors or with the VIA chipset.

And when I've asked my fellow professionals to point to a certain instance or circumstance as to why? I'm always, always given the usual non-definitive answer. That "it's just a bad chipset" to use, or "it's just no good", etc.

Which leaves me kinda curious as to why my fellow professionals aren't giving me a definitive answer?

Personally I'm on the opposite side of the coin. I don't use Intel boards & cpu's because either the designs look too funky. Or there are things that just don't feel kosher when I look at their hardware.

For instance, the Intel D845GVFN mATX mobo does not have an onboard audio jack for your optical disk(CD) drive. And there are other things like this, that continue to make me not look at Intel boards. But this is just one instance I can point to.

Also the prices on the AMD side are lower, which was a major contributing factor when I started buying `puter parts oh so long ago.

But even today, 7 years later, I'm still getting non-committal answers from my fellow profesionals. Does anyone know why???
 
For one, you don't need the analog cable for CD Audio with XP.

People that claim 'AMD used to suck and it still does suck' are ignorant. Simple as that. They don't keep up with current hardware.

Or they heard one person bolster that Intel is better and they run with it.
 
Yeah, I know.

What lead me down the AMD path so long ago was that when I was first looking for my first processor, I looked at AMD, Intel and Cyrix. Intel was too expen$ive, Cyrix ran too hot, and AMD was near my budget. Which is what lead me to my K5-133. Then on to the K6-2 400, and so on.
 
Via chipsets have traditionally had issues, but so have others. Many are able to fix with drivers. However, I just ran into my first ever chipset bug with VIA. I would not bad mouth them though and it would not prevent me from buying a future VIA chipset board.

VIA bug, for those wanting a specific example:
FusionHDTV5 Lite tuner card, has no digital output with VIA chipset mobo.
Got nF3 version of same motherboard from same manufacturer digital output works.

I spent about 3 weeks troubleshooting this, also formated and reinstalled twice on Via setup. It would not work until I switched mobos.

 
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