It doesn't matter either way, unless you want high performance, and AMD used to be in front a few years ago, as you mentioned. That was the first and only time, so far. It was the only time I built an AMD machine as well (Athlon64 3400+). I usually tend to build Intel CPU/Intel chipset, but I have recently bought a ready-built AMD Opteron HP ProLiant quad core machine, because it was a massive bargain. I am already a little unhappy with the nVidia chipset though.
Shazza
· 11 months ago
As a matter of interest I wonder if you'd expand a little on any issues that you have with the nVidia chipset. - Just that I had an Asrock motherboard with an nVidia chipset running an AMD Sempron CPU where I assume from logical guesswork that the chipset failed with a BSOD and then death. (Subsequent reboot attempts showed that the BIOS was unable to locate the CPU; therefore I reasoned that the faulty chipset had blocked access to it.) I rebuilt that machine using a Gigabyte board, also with an nVidia chipset, and am typing this on it now.
I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 x 2, 2.2GHz CPU on the new board. I'm hanging on to the old Sempron CPU, marked as possibly faulty as I can't be sure that the fault was actually the nVidia chipset rather than the CPU itself, or maybe even both.
Nevertheless; whether the fault lay with the chipset, the CPU, or both, it would be interesting to know of your experiences with nVidia's chipsets.
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I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 x 2, 2.2GHz CPU on the new board. I'm hanging on to the old Sempron CPU, marked as possibly faulty as I can't be sure that the fault was actually the nVidia chipset rather than the CPU itself, or maybe even both.
Nevertheless; whether the fault lay with the chipset, the CPU, or both, it would be interesting to know of your experiences with nVidia's chipsets.