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 Member 1776 Level 1.47 Mar 2006 
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Thought i would chime in here with me 2 cents:
I myself have a Core 2 and a 975XBX Badaxe board, rock solid stable and Render is right, some of their server features carry over into their desktop boards (IE Motherboard event log) I run a few Linux servers that have 2 x Opteron 250's + 4GB ECC ram, these servers are rock solid stable..yet they don't have consumer level chipsets in them. That being said i also look after a number of small Linux firewalls (Shorewall) running on Nforce 2 boards and havnt had a problem with them either, yet they don't do a lot other then squid + shorewall. Right now it makes the most sense to go Intel, plain and simple, especially for a desktop/workstation, you get Rock solid stability from an Intel Chipset as well as great performance for a decent price. As a rule Nfroce boards have alot more issues with hardware (picky about DDR2 ram, Creative sound cards) their forceware drivers are also are alot more finicky then the Intel INF drivers. Also look at benchmarks, AMDs fastest chip (x2 6000+) is only just catching up to the Intel E6600/6700 range of CPUs, and with AM2 on the way out and 4x4 being a complete joke, Im afraid i have to agree with Render on this, go Intel. Meanwhile LGA775 is not going anywhere at least till mid 2008 when Socket B (LGA 1366) is released. Now that being said a LGA775 board today may not be able to run the new 45nm Conroes coming out at the end of the year. Servers are a different story, Opterons and Conroe based Xeons are both great chips, we use both, as a rule we use AMD + Linux and Intel + Windows but there is no real reason for this, just the way it seems to be where i work  /rant Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by playstation201; Mar 24, 2007 at 03:02 PM.
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