AMD Processor

I encountered many inexplicable network errors at a client the other day. The most strange was when I pinged the server, I got results the were negative. I tracked the problem down with a search on the Internet to a timing issue with the Dual Core AMD processor. Credit to this post http://wiki.ljackson.us/Negative_Ping_Time. It references the AMD site for a patch to fix the issue. This has been a frequent problem with AMD processors that has motivated me to switch to installing Dells with Intel processors only.