There was an article on SlashDot about the Athlon vs. Coppermine. One of the comments mentioned the Tyan dual that is supposedly shipping later this month. Don't remember what article it was, but a search of "athlon coppermine" brings it up as first. Jason Pierce *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 09|05|2000| at 04|15 PM| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R>As much as I love AMD - for the time being dual systems are Intel based. R> R>I'd be interested in where you heard (or read) that Tyan was shipping a dual R>AMD this month? R> R>High traffic LAN server &/OR high-end gaming system ???? R> R>There is a difference in approaches to building a LAN server versus building R>a gaming machine. IMHO, combining these two desires into a single machine R>would not be a good idea. But ... I've seen stranger. R> R>/LT R> R>-----Original Message----- R>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Pierce R>Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 2:21 PM R>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R>Subject: [newbie] Dual Athlon Processors R> R> R>Hello all, I'm thinking about building a new system. Does anyone know of R>a(n inexpensive?) mobo that can house 2 Athlon Thunderbirds that works with R>linux? I have heard that Tyan(www.tyan.com) is supposed to be shipping one R>sometime this month, but could find no refference to it on the Tyan site. R>There are no dual boards listed in the AMD recommended list. I'm thinking R>about using the system as a high traffic LAN server, and/or high-end gaming R>system. For the gaming part, what would be a good sund card and speaker R>system? Are there any sound cards compatable with linux that have multiple R>sound in ports? I would like to beable to attach a cd changer, record R>player, tape deck, etc. Some of the Dolby speaker systems are pretty nice, R>anyone have any experience with them? I plan on using a Voodoo 5(or latest R>Voodoo at time of building) for video. I would also like to use multiple R>PCI UDMA/100 controller cards. Is it possible to use more than one PCI R>hard drive controller card? R> R>Thanks, Jason Pierce
