Replies to post #230 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Elmer Phud]

Spokeshave -

I post on other boards here, and the degree of censorship seems to depend largely on the discretion of the board "moderators".

That's my impression too. I've become more comfortable with the way this forum is managed. We had a few problems at first but it seems to be pretty reasonable now. Only the abusive and unreasonable posters will suffer here, was it should be. The real difference is that we won't have to ask for posts to be deleted and abusive people will be shutdown quickly but we'll have plenty of opportunities to debate amongst ourselves.

EP

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Both of you are quite right. I'd rather call it "more stringent rules regarding civil conduct and more conscientious enforcement of them", but even the negative-sounding "higher degree of censorship" is technically correct. This site, alone, is run solely by the people who own it, so it's much more hands-on.

The rules are largely the same at all 3 of the bigger sites. The level of enforcement seems to be the biggest difference.

Welcome aboard. On a personal level, I look forward to lots of AMD-related content as I'm relatively AMD-ignorant. I've only got one AMD-powered machine (the server/firewall at the office) and the rest are INTC.

I expect to be buying a new database server for the site before the end of April and the best I'm finding so far (especially for the money) is a dual-Xeon 2.4Ghz box from SuperMicro. It'll set us back $8k, mostly in memory and hard drives. Of course, by the time I place the order, it could be $6k for a dual 3.0Ghz.

Is anyone making similar or better AMD-based equipment? I'd prefer a quad-CPU machine, but it looks like the INTC route for that means a max of 800Mhz per CPU.