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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I |
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> recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then |
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> summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had lots |
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> of cooling problems. That fall the power supply fried itself and the |
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> mobo. To make a long story short, the Tyan was nice, but not right for |
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> me. My present Athlon 64 X2 is doing very nicely now... |
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The Tyan Thunder I am running at work is also a power hungry dog, but |
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would that not be mainly because of the CPUs? Wouldn't newer Opterons |
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be more efficient? That's what I'm hoping for. |
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Yes, I like the Athlon 64 XP2. The point being that the Tyan was a |
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cadillac of a motherboard---and priced out of my range. |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com |
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"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." |
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---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man |
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"We have no art. We do everything as well as we can." ---Balinese saying |
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