Quick question: Building a new PC, AMD or Intel?

[nine3o]

@ Red

Nice system!  Yea I don't know why M$ windows is so sensitive to memory, I used to get BSOD's on XP and Vista64 bit regularly (but I would only run these OS's for games as I run OSX on my PC).  The only way I got rid of them is dumb down the memory (slower speed in BIOS).  In OSX I can over clock my Q6600 and the memory with zero issues...

[nine3o]

Piru wrote:

Uh, if the memory is bad every OS will crash, including OS X.

Yes that is what I would expect, but for what ever reason if I leave all my bios settings to stock (not over clocking) it still BSOD's with an error reporting to the memory.

Running OSX (Hackintosh) never crashes nor does XP or Vista 64 crash when running in VMWare fusion in OSX.

Pire wrote:

Regarding overclocking: If your OC makes the system unstable "you're doing it wrong"(TM) and you should probably run your system at stock speed. Hint: You typically need to lower the FSB vs Memory ratio when raising the FSB (unless of course the rig supports insanely high memory clock and the memory chips are rated for the higher clock).

Thanks, I am aware of OC'ing machines, have been doing for years.

I just find windoze very unstable (on custom built machines) compared to other OS's.