Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:26:38 +0100:
> The question is, what's a good motherboard nowadays for > AMD64 x2 processors? Tyan has probably the best Linux support you'll get from a mobo manufacturer. They tend more towards server/workstation and high end desktop, and are priced a bit higher than some, but many of their boards are pre-certified with Red Hat, SuSE/Novel, and TurboLinux. I have a dual Opteron board (the s2885), and have been very happy with it. (I plan upgrading it to dual-cores later this year or early next, after AMD changes socket and the socket 940s start dropping in price, I'm currently running Opteron 242s, 8 gig memory, 4 x 300 gig SATA drives in kernel-raid 0/1/6, dual 21 inch monitors in 1600x1200 each on a Radeon 9250 AGP (freedomware X drivers), etc.) Tyan even supplies an appropriate lm_sensors.conf file for the board, and unlike some makers, uses plain zip and pdf for its BIOS packages and documentation, not MSWormOS executables. As I said, they tend toward the server/workstation side (Opterons), so their selection of Athlon64/X2/socket-939 boards is a bit limited. However, they do have one board that fits the bill, NVidia NForce Pro2200/Ultra chipset, depending on whether you want SLI config or not! The model name/number is Tyan Tomcat K8E, s2866. I just downloaded the pdf of the manual, and it says it's RH and SuSE certified, so Linux shouldn't be an issue. (Unless I'm mistaken, which I might be as I don't know NVidia's chipsets too well, lmsensors doesn't support that chipset yet, so no config file.) I should note it has only 3 PCI 2.2 slots, plus the two PCI-E for the SLI, of course. Single channel (2 drive) IDE, 4 channel SATA. http://tyan.com/products/html/tomcatk8esli.html Price? As I said, not cheap. Pricewatch.com has them starting at $223 (SLI version). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
