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