On Thursday 03 May 2007 01:47:12 Duncan wrote: > Anyway, I made the right decision, as Gentoo/amd64 MSI users have seen > more problems (as reported here) than Tyan users, which have seemed pretty > happy with their purchases, from what has been reported here anyway.
You may be referring to me here, so I'll just close the story by saying that AFAIR I had no real problems with dual Opteron 246s on my MSI K8T Master2 FAR board (my memory is getting to be notorious, though :-) . The BIOS lacked some settings in memory timing etc, but I would probably have left them alone anyway. Eventually, after three years of 24hr BOINC number-crunching, it seemed to develop some memory timing problem of its own - at least, it wouldn't boot with its usual 4 GB, not even back at the system builder's. So I got them to put in a new board, which is a Supermicro H8DCE. That was last Christmas. My only complaint with this board is its poor documentation of BIOS settings. The manual is not much more than the superficial plug-this-in-here-and-that-in-there variety. I've had to do quite a bit of experimenting to find what various things do, and I'm still not confident that I've found the best arrangement. Anyway, it seems to be working ok. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
