On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 19:35, FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/29/2005 7:16:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> kevin@kevino.org writes:
> 
> 
> >There are a ton of flaky OEM AMD processors around, sometimes coming from
> >otherwise reputable vendors.
> 
> o.O
> 
> I've never had a processor problem with an AMD chip, even when bought from 
> some of the crappiest shops in the universe (won't name names, but they're on 
> Broadway right near the 101).  K6-233, K6-III-333, Duron 750, Athlon 1200, 
> Athlon XP 2000+, Duron 1600, all bought "bare CPU" style, at many different shops, 
> and all worked fine.
> 
> I think a likelier culprit is that a "fine" CPU is teamed with an 
> inappropriate cooler (I have two funny stories about that shop I won't name if anyone 
> cares)

I've also had generally good luck with AMD, and Intel as well. So I
generally buy AMD because they're cheaper.  My only bad luck was with
Cyrix a few years back.  I haven't bought one of those since, if they
even still make them.

Actually, I ordered this motherboard from MWave as a MB/CPU/RAM bundle,
and paid the extra $9 for testing.  My mistake, I think, was ordering
their generic memory instead of Kingston.  It's a bit aggravating that
their testing (if they did indeed test it) did not catch the memory
problem.  But I know that certain RAM errors are hard to catch.  It also
seems like the errors were rare at first and became much more frequent
later on.

Vaughn

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