Well, the day is fast approaching when I'll get my Dual Opteron, but now I've
a choice to make.
I've been quoted aprox 470 Euro +VAT for a Tyan S2885 Motherboard or 260 Euro
+VAT for an MSI K8T-Master2 FAR?
From what I can find, I know the Tyan board has seperate memory banks for each
processor, as well as a split PCI-X bus, so It's like two complete computers
on one board. Whereas, on the MSI board, the two processors have to share the
memory and PCI bus.
Also, The Tyan, being larger and needing a special power supply, also needs a
larger and much more expensive case.
But I do have a rather large bonus fund to buy this with, so. . .
Is the Tyan board really worth double the price, plus a bit extra on the case
and power supply?
Will the NUMA memory model be that much more useful to a 64 bit Linux kernel?
And, before you ask, I'll be using this box for DVD quality computer animation
rendering and I know that the tools I'll be using can and do take good
advantage of Dual Opterons.
Cheers,
John Gay
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