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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