are AMD processors reliable enough for a web server?

[LucyP]

This may be a strange question - we've had problems with AMD's reliablity with Windows in the past, but now the only host I can find for my dedicated web server only offers AMD Athlon chips (they'll be 750s so I guess that's a K7 and not an xp - couldn't find out more as AMD's site was down).

We'll have 2 machines and we'll be running:
Win 2000 Server
SQL Server
Livestats
various small apps for use with IIS5

Can anyone forsee any problems? Someone said I'll need a good fan and a good power supply - any suggestions?

 

[stocks]

The Athlon AMD chips will be fine, they are fast and seemingly reliable with a built in maths co-processor for handling certain complicated tasks

 

[odraskovic]

Hi,

I use Athlon in my Web server for 1.5 months. During that time I did not have any problems so I guess that they are ok.


Bye,
Oliver

 

[odraskovic]

Btw. I forgot to write that my site is very busy with 50 to 120 people connected in same time. We have more then 500.000 opened pages during day.


Oliver

 

[Guest_imported]

Amd needs good cooling , bcause they run hot. If you have that and/or a nice cold server room, then you can use the amd no probs. What else needs to be said ? Treat it nice and water it verynight and dont forget to talk to it every so often.

Garythal