[gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu> posted
20070503221801.GC28620@ifa.hawaii.edu, excerpted below, on  Thu, 03 May
2007 12:18:01 -1000:

> The S288x series also only use socket 940 which is rapidly fading from
> the market.

Well, it should have /some/ time yet, as AMD recently introduced the x90 
series, at 2.8 GHz.  That's what I expect I'll be upgrading to. Prices at 
pricewatch.com are running just over $700 for the 290, so just over $1400 
for the pair.  The biggest thing I'll miss is the support for hardware 
virtualization in the 4-digit Opterons, but oh, well...  

PCI-E would be nice too, but the paucity of good libreware driver 
supported PCI-E graphics hardware at present means there's little to miss 
there, and the multiple bus PCI/PCI-X on my current s2885 gives me 
sufficient room for data expansion there, if necessary, so there's little 
to miss there as well.  Thus, it's the missing hardware virtualization 
support in the 290s that'll be the big downer for me.

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