Hello,
Some time back there was a discussion on which board processor combination would be good for a workstation. 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 would still go with Intel processors and Intel chipset boards (Not Intel Original Boards). AMD may be good technically but their support in India is not so good. Even simple crosschecking of processors or motherboards is difficult as most repairers have Intel based products. In my experience I have observed that higher end AMD products have better quality and life compared to the low end ones. I have had 2 processor failures in limitted quantities of AMD whereas Intel processors have been quite robust. Another thing one should avoid is Asus motherboards with nVidia chipsets. They are not very stable and solid.
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.
Another thing one should avoid is Asus motherboards with nVidia chipsets. They are not very stable and solid.
Thanks for the tip.
-- Arun Khan
On Monday 15 November 2010 06:08 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
I was on vacation so please excuse the delayed response.
I was on vacation too and my mobo too conked off before that. I finally got myself a new system with Core-i3 + Intel DH55TC mobo and 2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz. RAM, 1 TB HDD, SATA DVD R/W. All this works out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04. I haven't tried out the HDMI and DIVX video outs. This board is good for light multimedia workstation type work. It has 4 RAM slots with a capacity upto 16GB ( No idea about 4 GB single RAMs). 4 SATA +2 eSATA ports. Good number of USB ports, faster bus speed of 1333 MHz. Gigabit LAN.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Rony Billgnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
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.
I'm surprised that a workstation mobo uses only a 300W SMPS.
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.
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