From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HjwRZ-0000dz-4m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:59:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l44BvZWs013923; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:57:35 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l44BvY5a013913 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 11:57:34 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjwPg-0001ac-1R for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:57:28 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-67-248.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.67.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:57:28 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-67-248.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 13:57:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:57:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20070503032436.GD10352@ifa.hawaii.edu> <20070503141320.GB10570@sgi.com> <20070503221452.GB28620@ifa.hawaii.edu> <20070503221801.GC28620@ifa.hawaii.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-67-248.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.128 (SR/CL: Leitmotiv: Toynbee Idea) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: a126f0d3-9a17-469f-b5c3-7d1fe4eb23af X-Archives-Hash: 4d0304850e12cd903108097f8b51194e Joshua Hoblitt 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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list