Quote - "they formatted both drives. They never saw my shadow again.."

Now that's why I fix things myself. I have never trusted a repair shop with my disks.

Twice I've had ttrouble with broken components. My AMD486 system failed two months after I bought the system. Talked to the sales guy at the store on the phone, he told me how to find out what was broken - it was the mainboard. Brought the system back to the store, he swapped the mainboard for a new one, and the same afternoon I went back home with a fully functional system (that has functioned without any trouble for 7 years before I retired it).

This Christmas I put together a Media center. The mainboard and one of the memory modules were non-functional. Went back to the store, got a new mainboard and memory module under warranty, put the system back together and it's been working fine ever since.

I've had several Intel systems. Most of them never gave me trouble, some did. I've also had several AMD systems. None of them ever gave me trouble.

Right now I only have AMD systems (except for my laptop). The oldest AMD I'm running is a 5 year old Athlon 1400 system (my server), which has been continuously up for over 3 years now. Very reliable and stable. The other systems are a 3 year old AthlonXP 2700, a 18 month old Athon64 3500+, a 5 month old Athlon64x2 4400 and a 5 month old Sempron 2600. Most of them are always on. All of them are reliable. None of them are built on the cheap - only quality components.

It's not the CPU. Both Intel and AMD CPUs are good and reliable. It's mostly the mainboard and the power supply unit. A good mainboard will cost around $120, a cheap, less reliable board will cost arount $70. A good power supply starts at around $60, a cheap, less reliable one starts at around $30. Don't go for cheap when coosing a mainboard or PSU, go for quality. It'll save you lots of wasted time and money in the longer run.

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