[gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards

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

Nuitari <nuitari@melchior.nuitari.net> posted
Pine.LNX.4.64.0706072350030.4516@melchior.nuitari.net, excerpted below, on
 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:08:03 -0400:

> 1.
> The one thing that was clearly lacking from Tyan and ThermalTake was
> that there are actually 2 different Heatsink sizes on the market for
> Socket F systems. Some heatsinks at 3.5" and others at 4.1".
> 
> ThermalTake's Socket F heatsinks use 4.1", while the Tyan board uses
> 3.5".
> 
> In the end I got 2 Socket 940 heatsinks using the special brackets from
> Tyan.

Wow.  Last time I bought a mobo, I bought Tyan from Monarch, referred 
from pricewatch.com.  Pricing mobos, CPUs, and heat-sinks/fans separately 
at the lowest cost on pricewatch, Monarch was charging like $25 to ship 
it all assembled and tested.  In addition, that meant I ordered it all 
together (I did order memory separately, from someone else) instead of 
having to worry about ordering and getting separate packages from several 
different places.  So I did it that way.  They shipped it already 
assembled, so until very recently, when I took one of the heatsinks off 
to check that I could do so and reuse them when I order my dual Opteron 
290s, I'd never even had the heat-sinks off the CPUs.

I guess that's one way to ensure you get the right one! =8^)  I was quite 
pleased with Monarch service as well as price (tho their prices on memory 
were only average, thus my buying that elsewhere), and will likely order 
from them again next time I upgrade.  

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