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Hamish Marson <hamish@××××××××××××××.com> posted |
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44AA506E.70105@××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 |
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12:26:38 +0100: |
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> The question is, what's a good motherboard nowadays for |
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> AMD64 x2 processors? |
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Tyan has probably the best Linux support you'll get from a mobo |
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manufacturer. They tend more towards server/workstation and high end |
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desktop, and are priced a bit higher than some, but many of their boards |
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are pre-certified with Red Hat, SuSE/Novel, and TurboLinux. I have a dual |
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Opteron board (the s2885), and have been very happy with it. (I plan |
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upgrading it to dual-cores later this year or early next, after AMD |
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changes socket and the socket 940s start dropping in price, I'm currently |
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running Opteron 242s, 8 gig memory, 4 x 300 gig SATA drives in kernel-raid |
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0/1/6, dual 21 inch monitors in 1600x1200 each on a Radeon 9250 AGP |
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(freedomware X drivers), etc.) Tyan even supplies an appropriate |
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lm_sensors.conf file for the board, and unlike some makers, uses plain zip |
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and pdf for its BIOS packages and documentation, not MSWormOS executables. |
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As I said, they tend toward the server/workstation side (Opterons), so |
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their selection of Athlon64/X2/socket-939 boards is a bit limited. |
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However, they do have one board that fits the bill, NVidia NForce |
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Pro2200/Ultra chipset, depending on whether you want SLI config or not! |
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The model name/number is Tyan Tomcat K8E, s2866. I just downloaded the |
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pdf of the manual, and it says it's RH and SuSE certified, so Linux |
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shouldn't be an issue. (Unless I'm mistaken, which I might be as I don't |
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know NVidia's chipsets too well, lmsensors doesn't support that chipset |
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yet, so no config file.) I should note it has only 3 PCI 2.2 slots, plus |
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the two PCI-E for the SLI, of course. Single channel (2 drive) IDE, 4 |
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channel SATA. |
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http://tyan.com/products/html/tomcatk8esli.html |
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Price? As I said, not cheap. Pricewatch.com has them starting at $223 |
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(SLI version). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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