The S288x series also only use socket 940 which is rapidly fading from the market.
-J -- On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:14:52PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 07:13:20AM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: > > On the original subject - my Tyan S2885 is still running strong as my office > > workstation, since 2006. More than I can say for the ECS ATI R690 chipset > > I had to upgrade to at home due to a failing system - way too easy to lock > > it up. > > The S288x series of boards are/were great. Probably because all of the > hyper-transport connected components are from the same vendor (AMD). I'd > still consider this series if you can live without PCI-e. Unfortunately > there are all sort of compatibility problems between PCI-X cards and > chipsets. Compatibility issues are what prompted my move to boards with > an NVidia PCI-e implementation. > > -J > > --
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