I've been using a dual "dual core" opteron (dual 285's) machine on a Tyan s2892 Mobo (K8SE), with an nvidia 6800 GTO card, and MAudio 2496 sound card.
SL5.4 has run flawlessly, including installing Netbeans, skype_static, virtualbox with windows, and vlc with the libdvdcss hacks. I have had this home assembled machine since Xmas 2005. Although it is a server mobo - it works perfectly fine as a workstation, and I used it for a while as a research machine at a university in place of the university-supplied machinery. I have yet to find a reason why I would want to upgrade it! I have had just about everything running on the machine at various times, including Gentoo, Arch Linux, solaris, ... etc ... I also have SL5.4 running on a friends triple-core phenom running on an ASUS micro-ATX mobo, with onboard video and sound, without any apparent issues. > Hello all, > > I've been tasked with purchasing a computer with 2 processors at least > (not just multicore) has anyone experience with hardware that works > flawlessly with SL 5? I'm leaning towards Intel processors - would I > only be looking for Xeon or are there core i7 dual processor > motherboards out there too? This will be a desktop/research machine - > so servers are not exactly what I'm looking for. > > Of course I'm also searching around already but I was wondering if > anyone had any suggestions from which I could start. > > Thank you! > -Chris Tooley >
