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Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> posted |
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200605161124.56771.prh@××××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on Tue, 16 May |
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2006 11:24:56 +0100: |
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> On Saturday 13 May 2006 19:56, Duncan wrote: |
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>> Now, if you were asking about a Tyan s2885, I'd have a bit more to say. |
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> My recent forays into RAID have made me wonder about upgrading my |
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> motherboard, since AFAIK I can't fit a hardware RAID card to it and it's |
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> 2.5 years old. It's an MSI K8T Master2 FAR. I think you may have a |
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> recommendation for me as to a board for my two Opteron 246s and 4 GB RAM in |
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> four sticks :-) I don't really want to swap the graphics card though, |
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> which is an AGP nVidia Quadro FX500 and quite up to my needs, so I suppose |
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> PCI-X is out, no? |
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> Would this be better off-list? |
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It could be, but this will be short. =8^) |
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Yes, I'm very happy with this Tyan. I had some issues with it originally |
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due to generic memory and no way on the first couple BIOS releases to |
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limit memory clock, but they added that and it has been very solid every |
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since. |
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More in general, however, I've been /extremely/ happy with Tyan's Linux |
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support! This was my first Tyan board, partly because they tend to do |
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higher class (more expensive) stuff than I'd been able to afford before, |
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but I have been happy enough with it and with their Linux support that it's |
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very possible I'm now a lifetime repeat customer! How many vendors supply |
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appropriately configured sensors.conf (lm_sensors) files for their boards? |
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Tyan does! Their support folks are quite happy to answer Linux questions, |
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and the faqs/readmes for each board often have Linux specific config |
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information, as well. Of course, one might /expect/ a bit more support |
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when the board costs $400, as compared to a $50 board, but that was the |
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going rate for dual-opteron boards at the time, so it wasn't as if they |
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were overpriced. |
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PCI-X or PCI-E? That s2885 /does/ have PCI-X. However, I've not seen |
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video cards for PCI-X, only AGP and now PCI-E, so I'm assuming you mean |
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PCI-E. If it's really PCI-X, then yeah, that board does it. |
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Regardless, Tyan may have a dual Opteron PCI-E board if you need it, and |
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as I said, I'm very happy with them and their Linux support, so that's |
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what I'd be looking for if I were upgrading ATM. |
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As for RAID, it really changes the way you view hard drives, doesn't it? |
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I doubt I'll ever go back to a single disk system, now, at least for |
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anything but a laptop. |
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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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