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Did I miss the obvious? Bad power supply? Power supplies (ATX) must provide power even when "off." If it's not providing that power correctly then the unit won't turn on. If you go to PC Power...

Drawn in as in "Giant sucking sound" or perhaps "Black Hole"? Actually it's cool to see people get sucked into our conversations, and interesting to see how many lurkers there are.

:)

Rob

We're doing OK in this thread. We're not doing a lot of personal attacks (although the occaisional slip in.) Debate is healthy -- particularly when both sides are open to learning about the...

Check out http://www.sysopt.com/news.html#1029843549 It seems that at least one fairly large ;) PC maker has decided that it's worth it to use AMD.

Rob

The guy who didn't spend all of his time worrying about PCs and was worrying about the strategic role of IT in his business. :)

You've made some interesting guesses at failure rates. Got any data...

I suppose I should mention that AMD has had better floating point performance than Intel for a while and Video Editing is more floating point based than integer based -- at least with most of the...

Funny, in most cases Wal-Mart sells the same brands as other retailers. I'm sure that they purposefully tell their vendors to ship them the inferior stuff -- Not!

I'm sure there are SOME things...

Not always. Does Wal-Mart sell inferior stuff because they sell it cheaper? No, manufacturers can be more efficient than their competitors and sell products at a lower price.


It is possible...

Neither Intel or AMD is truly suited for "blade servers" that is really something that Transmeta is better at.


It's not quite that bad but admittedly they do generate more heat.


Well, again...

First, you missed the point of my question completely. I asked if those complaining about AMD reliability had ever run them. Apparently you haven't.

As for what most companies run, most...