From: Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Tyan Motherboards
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:18:01 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503221801.GC28620@ifa.hawaii.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070503221452.GB28620@ifa.hawaii.edu>
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The S288x series also only use socket 940 which is rapidly fading from
the market.
-J
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 8:14 [gentoo-amd64] Tyan Motherboards Nuitari
2007-05-03 0:47 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-05-03 1:49 ` Jeffrey Gardner
2007-05-03 5:33 ` Duncan
2007-05-03 2:17 ` dave crane
2007-05-03 2:45 ` Nuitari
2007-05-03 5:44 ` Duncan
2007-05-03 6:11 ` Nuitari
2007-05-03 9:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2007-05-03 2:29 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-05-03 3:24 ` Joshua Hoblitt
2007-05-03 14:13 ` Bob Sanders
2007-05-03 22:14 ` Joshua Hoblitt
2007-05-03 22:18 ` Joshua Hoblitt [this message]
2007-05-04 11:57 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-06-08 4:08 ` Nuitari
2007-06-08 6:16 ` Duncan
2007-06-08 6:57 ` Nuitari
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