Re: Opteron Mobo Suggestions

[clarke at cilia.org (Ed Clarke)]

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>Tyan is really focused on cost.
>They have an older, "cheap" 2-way Opteron mainboard that
>doesn't even put DDR channels on CPU #2.
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>And several manufacturers are even worse than Tyan.
>Especially the non-server focused vendors.
>SuperMicro and Tyan are better than most.
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>But still not the quality in mainboard design you'll get
>from select Tier-1 OEMs like HP and Sun.
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So what is the bottom line?  None of the common board makers such as
Asus, Iwill, Tyan, Supermicro and Gigabit make a "good" board?  So
what should the poor server builder do?