Good Afternoon, I'm looking at upgrading one of our workstations, which currently has an AMD Athlon 1200 CPU on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with 1GB RAM. This workstation runs VMware Workstation, with a few VMs running most times, and also does a lot of disk-intensive work in its role as a Samba file server. I'm looking at not the latest and greatest upgrade, but something that will have enough horsepower to take advantage of the 4-Disk RAID5 array of Seagate 36GB 10K Barracuda SCSI drives attached to a DPT PM2865U3 RAID controller. The RAID controller is 64-bit, but now it is sitting in a 32-bit PCI slot (which is OK, it's backwards compatible). So, my first screen was to look at boards with 64-bit PCI slots. There aren't too many that have a standard ATX footprint. (I'd like to keep the existing case, which has bunch of add-ons to make things quiet.) What seems to fit the bill is the following: Motherboard: Tyan Tiger S2466N CPUs: Dual Athlon MP 2800+ "Barton" Memory: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 ECC Registered The above five items would fit just fine into the existing case, and would cost about $800 US. The mobo is listed in SuSE's Hardware Database with "Full" support, so I don't think I'll have any issues there. I expect I could get away with no reinstall, too. What I am curious about is if anyone has had experience with this board? Any other comments regarding this proposed kit, and not relevant to April Fool's day, please :-) would also be appreciated. Best regards, Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com
On Friday 01 April 2005 20:56, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I'm looking at upgrading one of our workstations, which currently has an AMD Athlon 1200 CPU on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with 1GB RAM.
Motherboard: Tyan Tiger S2466N CPUs: Dual Athlon MP 2800+ "Barton" Memory: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 ECC Registered
The above five items would fit just fine into the existing case, and would cost about $800 US. The mobo is listed in SuSE's Hardware Database with "Full" support, so I don't think I'll have any issues there. I expect I could get away with no reinstall, too.
What I am curious about is if anyone has had experience with this board? Any other comments regarding this proposed kit, and not relevant to April Fool's day, please :-) would also be appreciated.
Yes, Running two of them here. Both MB's are the 2466N-4M. One with the 2800+ cpus you mention, and the older one has a pair of 1600+. I ran the system with an adaptec 29160 for quite a while with 4 10000 fujitsu hard drives. Make sure you get good cpu fans for this setup as the amd's tend to run a bit hot. Mike You can contact me off list if you need more info on the setup's here. -- Powered by SuSE 9.2 Kernel 2.6.8 KDE 3.3.0 Kmail 1.7.1 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 9:56pm up 3 days 1:18, 3 users, load average: 1.25, 2.09, 2.52
On Friday, April 1, 2005 03:03 pm, Mike wrote:
On Friday 01 April 2005 20:56, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I'm looking at upgrading one of our workstations, which currently has an AMD Athlon 1200 CPU on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with 1GB RAM.
Motherboard: Tyan Tiger S2466N CPUs: Dual Athlon MP 2800+ "Barton" Memory: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 ECC Registered
The above five items would fit just fine into the existing case, and would cost about $800 US. The mobo is listed in SuSE's Hardware Database with "Full" support, so I don't think I'll have any issues there. I expect I could get away with no reinstall, too.
What I am curious about is if anyone has had experience with this board? Any other comments regarding this proposed kit, and not relevant to April Fool's day, please :-) would also be appreciated.
Yes, Running two of them here. Both MB's are the 2466N-4M. One with the 2800+ cpus you mention, and the older one has a pair of 1600+. I ran the system with an adaptec 29160 for quite a while with 4 10000 fujitsu hard drives. Make sure you get good cpu fans for this setup as the amd's tend to run a bit hot.
Mike
Brilliant Mike, thanks. That's exactly the feedback for which I was looking! Re CPU coolers, we'll probably get some from Zalman, if the coolers from AMD (we'll buy boxed CPUs with coolers) don't cut it. Although, they seem to test out very nicely. Best, Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com
On Apr 1, 2005 9:48 PM, L. Mark Stone
On Friday, April 1, 2005 03:03 pm, Mike wrote:
On Friday 01 April 2005 20:56, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I'm looking at upgrading one of our workstations, which currently has an AMD Athlon 1200 CPU on an Asus A7V133 motherboard with 1GB RAM.
Motherboard: Tyan Tiger S2466N CPUs: Dual Athlon MP 2800+ "Barton" Memory: 2 x 512MB Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 ECC Registered
The above five items would fit just fine into the existing case, and would cost about $800 US. The mobo is listed in SuSE's Hardware Database with "Full" support, so I don't think I'll have any issues there. I expect I could get away with no reinstall, too.
What I am curious about is if anyone has had experience with this board? Any other comments regarding this proposed kit, and not relevant to April Fool's day, please :-) would also be appreciated.
Yes, Running two of them here. Both MB's are the 2466N-4M. One with the 2800+ cpus you mention, and the older one has a pair of 1600+. I ran the system with an adaptec 29160 for quite a while with 4 10000 fujitsu hard drives. Make sure you get good cpu fans for this setup as the amd's tend to run a bit hot.
Mike
Brilliant Mike, thanks. That's exactly the feedback for which I was looking!
Re CPU coolers, we'll probably get some from Zalman, if the coolers from AMD (we'll buy boxed CPUs with coolers) don't cut it. Although, they seem to test out very nicely.
Best, Mark
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