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 1HwXpT-0000o8-Mu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:20:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l586HJS0011830; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:17:19 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 l586HIbM011811 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:17:18 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HwXmV-0002KC-8R for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:17:07 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-15-181.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.15.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:17:07 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-15-181.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:17:07 +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, 8 Jun 2007 06:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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: ip68-231-15-181.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.131 (Ghosts: First Variation) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b1cb4505-87bc-425d-8a8c-3d7b317902d1 X-Archives-Hash: 1fdc29fba51d5a3f5e51699c8de7dcd5 Nuitari 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. -- 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