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Hey James, |
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I am running all Gentoo AMD 64 in my business and am very happy with the |
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price/performance. I have had very good experiences with Tyan's AMD |
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Opteron mother boards. I have a GX-28 rack-mount server as well as 8 |
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boxes based on the Tyan S2895 mobo, all running SMP. Here's what does |
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it for me: |
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1)Dual BroadCom Gb.Eth. has built in kernel drivers so you get full Gb |
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support |
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2)NVidia Nforce Professional, again excellent Linux support |
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3)Dual-Core Support plus 8 memory slots = plenty of upgradability as |
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dual core chips go down in price |
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4)Twin Opterons + 16GB ram + CCACHE = very short compile times :) |
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Hope that helps, if there is anything else you are wondering about the |
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Tyan mobo's don't hesitate to let me know. |
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Frank |
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James Pattinson wrote: |
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> Hi All |
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> If you have a mobo that you'd recommend for use with gentoo-amd64, could |
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> you please let me know? |
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> Things I'm looking for that are well supported on Linux |
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> * SATA 150 |
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> * Ethernet (don't like the sound of the forcedeth driver) |
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> * No need for high end GFX |
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> I'm currently using an Optronix which seems to work well apart from some |
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> APIC issues, if these get sorted out by the manufacturer then I'd be |
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> happy to recomment this board. |
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> Cheers! |
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> James |
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