On Wednesday 02 May 2007 03:14:11 Nuitari wrote:
> I'd like to know if anyone has any experience with either the
> Tyan Thunder n3600M (S2932) or the
> Tyan Thunder n2000M (S3992) motherboards and, of course, gentoo amd64.

Since others have done so, I'll throw in my vote of confidence for Tyan.  I've 
not used those specific motherboard models, but Tyan has above-average Linux 
support and the product I bought from them has performed as advertised or 
better.  The integrated peripherals (isn't that an oxymoron?) are 
well-supported in linux.

I am happily running Gentoo amd64 on the system and have been since the middle 
of 2005, with few complaints.  [That said, there are disadvantage to running 
a 64-bit userland, still.]

My next motherboard purchase will almost certainly be Tyan; I'll never go back 
to 32-bit land.

> The CPUs would be 2 2xxx opterons.

I haven't had any experience with these processors.

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