[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 09:53, alex j avriette wrote:
> > 	Exactly... everyone who is knocking AMD chips, never seems to
> > realize that 90% of the time it's the motherboard. I've never had 
> > problems
> > with Asus or Soltek. But Gigabyte, tyan, Shuttle, etc... nothing but
> > problems.
> 
> Ahem.. where exactly do you get a dual motherboard for an AMD that is 
> not Tyan? The one I want is a tyan thunder k7. If you rule out tyan as a 
> cause of problems with AMD, you also rule out dual cpu's. I can 
> understand how a PC box would get overly hot with 2x multighz AMD chips..

We've had this Tyan board (tiger K7) for a while now, with dual 1.33GHz
T-birds and 1GB of ram.  The only time it crashes is when it runs
Windows.  :)
	Greg

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