> On Friday, Apr 11, 2003, at 23:46 US/Pacific, Dean Maluski wrote: >> The day is near that I'm purchasing a dual proc. motherboard. Reason >> for >> dual proc. is that I have a 39160 64 bit Seagate SCSI board that I want >> to get the most of. >> I'm looking at buying a Tyan Tiger motherboard with dual AMD >> processers. Can anyone recommend if this will be an incompatible >> purchase with RH9? Would I be better off getting an INTEL motherboard >> and proc setup? I don't own any INTEL CPU's. I've been using strictly >> AMD for the last 10+ years but with this purchase I want a machine that >> will honk. > > My personal system is a dual Athlon MP 2000, with a Tyan Thunder K7 > motherboard, running Red Hat Linux 9 without any problem to speak of. > I've also got a pair of dual Athlon MP 2100s at work now running 9 atop > Tyan Tiger MPX boards, no problem. > > Both Tyan boards are a bit cantankerous when it comes to attempting to > get useful information out of lm_sensors, but they can be made to work > (probably not even a sticking point for most people). > > One other note though; I'd stay away from the Thunder K7 boards, > because they don't use a standard ATX power supply. There are only two > mfgs I've found that make a compatible power supply, and they are hard > to come by (and not cheap). They're really more designed for server use > anyhow (and a rack-mount case). The Tiger boards use a standard ATX > power supply though (I'd recommend at least a 450W power supply too). > The other board I might recommend is the Asus A7M266-D. I'll vouch for the A7M266-D. I'm running RH9 now, dual 2400+'s, single 512meg Corsair unbuffered DIMM, Antec 550W p/s (alternative: PC Power & Cooling 400W or higher), Lian-Li aluminum case (you *want* an aluminum case for dual CPUs, I should have spent the extra bucks for the extended length model). gkrellm (from http://shrike.freshrpms.net) is monitoring my CPUs, displaying mb/CPU1/CPU2 temps, core voltage for each CPU, and 3.3V/5V/12V rail levels. I have assorted PC building notes on my homepage. You want 2400+'s at minimum, since that's when AMD rebalanced their rating scale to make it more conservative (2200+'s are 1.8GHz, 2400+'s jumped to 2.0GHz) and it guarantees that you get a 0.13 micron core (roughly the same power consumption of the old 0.18 micron 1.53GHz Palamino core). If you like bleeding-edge gear and have the required cash, Opterons do ship on the 22nd. It's unclear whether or not there will be appropriate workstation motherboards available at launch; we'll definitely see very nice rackmount servers. --- Brian Stretch http://www.mindspring.com/~bstretch Cert. Technojunkie To our men in uniform and our allies: Good hunting. rm -rf /bin/laden --- D: By the way, there's something I've been wondering - why "Babylon 5?" After prior four stations were lost, or destroyed, why build another? S: Plain old human stubbornness, I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If it's destroyed again we rebuild it again. And again, and again, and... [looking down the vast Garden] again. Until it stays. That, as our poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -- B5, first episode
