My Duron 600 @ 950 runs great. :-)  While I am willing to smoke
my chip (only paid $60), the Althon Thunderbird chips perform very
well at their rated clock speeds.  From the bang / buck perspective
they are very good as well.

Just buy a decent motherboard like an ABIT KT7A-RAID, rather
than some cheapo one, at least for your first "test" machine to
prove out the AMD chips.

At the moment I am recommending Thunderbirds over P3s to people
that ask me. :-)

-Andrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Space Case" <wormey@eskimo.com>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Stupid Chip Q


> On Mar 14, 10:32am, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> >I have been getting estimates on a new box. I have heard at
> >least one shop say they only use InTel because they make
> >better chips; and another shop says they use AMD because they
> >are always having customers come in to replace their Intel
> >chips because of Intels probs. SO, is INTEL BETTER or is
> >AMD BETTER; or is this an intractable question?
> 
> I saw a web story today that said that Boeing just bought a 96-CPU
> Linux cluster, using AMD Athlon chips.
> 
> I'd consider that a good endorsement...
> 
> ~Steve