On Monday 15 November 2010 18:08:51 Arun Khan wrote:
I was on vacation so please excuse the delayed response.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Rony Bill gnulinuxist@gmail.com
wrote:
Some time back there was a discussion on which board processor combination would be good for a workstation.
It was me, I already posted the mobo (ASUS) and cpu (AMD 1090T).
My own machine has been down since many days. One day everything was fine with my dual boot Intel 845 GEBV2 system and I decided to install SP3 in my XP just for kicks. It was downloaded properly from the doze update website and after a few minutes, it started restarting my comp. The worst part was that my mobo got damaged and the HDD controller is giving trouble. Live CDs run fine but even clean installation of doze gives blue screen errors and linux gives hard disk read/write errors midway during installation. It is time for me to go for a new board.
I have had a spate of problems with Intel branded motherboards (5 in the last 12 months - amongst them one workstation and one server class). The latest one being a RMA'd mobo failing within 2 weeks of receipt. I have no experience with other vendors re: mobo RMAs but with Intel one has to go through hoops [1] to convince their engineer that indeed the problem is with the mobo - resulting in a loss of 10-15 days.
[1] one of them asked me to use an exact 300W SMPS as it was specified in their spec.
This has convinced me to look @ MSI/Tyan + AMD as alternate platforms but they are somewhat difficult/expensive to source in Mumbai. For my latest unit, I settled for an ASUS+Phenom combo.
I have had 2 processor failures in limitted quantities of AMD whereas Intel processors have been quite robust.
Another member reported AMD CPU failure - CPU failure is quite rare.
That was me. The RMA process for AMD should be relabeled RMAD. The stupidity of the whole thing is unbelievable.
However once I shipped after completion, I got a new one in 3 days from B'lore.
Looks like mobos and CPUs are going the floppy and cd way - cheap and useless trash.