> you can bet i'm going to save my pennies for a quad athlon MP board... > well, if anybody other than Tyan starts making the mobos... > Yes, me too -- the benches so far look great; just wait until there is good competition within the MP athlon market! 4th quarter... maybe. I really like both the k6-2 tech and the older athlon stuff, since it is way cheaper and also well-debugged and stable, as well as there existing some very refined mobo's, that are quite optimized and also have good overclocking control via bios. Does anyone on the list use these?? I feel relatively fast to be near 500mhz but also am in the dark ages, ha. Hopefully I end up with a small cluster, which should handle all sorts of needs. And here is the gratuitous link to finish my silly message with: http://www.transmetazone.com/products.cfm#servers Yeah, this contrasts the position of amd athlon a great deal, but I still think they're way cool!!! NEC's CS56 would make a nice countertop piece, quiet and cool (built-in ups), and the Philips S10LP-TC Net Display (near the bottom of the 'components' section) would be my choice for a wearable, wall- or couch-mounted thin client (built-in touchscreen lcd on single- board computer). I wish crusoe had even a tenth of intel's market share! I've heard not-good things lately... well have fun with that folks. cheers ben
