Re: Opteron Mobo Suggestions -- again, get a mainboard with an AMD8131 (it's that simple)

[loony at loonybin.org (Peter Arremann)]

On Friday 24 June 2005 00:37, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> P.S.  If you think you're going to get a dual-Opteron mainboard for
> under $300, it's near impossible.  The only ones that are under $300
> typically lack an AMD8131 -- i.e., _no_ PCI-X channels.  You'd be better
> off getting a $100 Athlon64 nForce mainboard with an Athlon64x2 4200+
> and a PCIe x4 or PCIe x8 storage controller instead.
Here we go again with that UPS guy though... other than the Intel 2ch scsi 
controller and emulex fibre cards there isn't much out there. And all those 
options fit into a nice $40K server - but if you're talking a couple hundret 
for the board and cpu, they're overkill... Until you got a sata raid 
controller or so available for pci express, you're better off if a more 
expensive board and then save the money on some cheaper storage.. 

Peter.