Thanks for the input... your setup sounds pretty good. I was hoping to avoid EATX because I have a cabinet I'd like to get the unit to fit in...
Quoting Soenke von Stamm: > The K8T Master2 Far-7 you mention only sports RAM slots for one CPU > IIRC, that is IMHO not a good idea as you loose half the possible > bandwith and add a lot of latency for RAM access for the 2nd CPU in > any case. Symmetrical RAM for each CPU is the best case under all > circumstances. Ouch. Thanks for pointing that out... I hadn't noticed but of course that's a huge drawback. Yuck. > Hope that helped a bit. Did you want it really small? Not such a > good idea for dual CPU I think, as you said ZmaxDP is not quiet at > all for very good reasons. The P180 case is a midi tower, so you can > put it below or on top of your desk. It's not too big and looks > quite nice IMHO. My collegues were quite pleased, too =8) As I mentioned I have a cabinet I'd like to get it inside so I would like to use a standard ATX board but I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to get the mobo features I want without EATX on the Thunder or similar. > Darn, can't find which CPU cooler our supplier used, it's one of the > big heatpipe towers with the fan on the side, not on top. If you > take one, er two, of those, you should have a look at the airflow, > depending of the socket direction it may blow 90? to the case's > general air flow (front-to-back usually)... Cool. Thanks again... Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
