Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (274 mails)

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

mbrown wrote:

> I've seen an awful lot of posts on various SUSE mailing lists regarding 
> problems with the VIA chipsets and large amounts of ram, but I don't have
> any personal experience with those boards.
>
> I had a contact at AMD (one of their sysadmins) recommend the ASUS SK8N 
> for 1p boards and Rioworks HDAMA or HDAMB for 2p boards.  I have the 
> HDAMB board and it has been very stable, but I have not yet loaded up 
> more than 4 gigs of ram yet (if you need more than 8gb ram you would 
> need the HDAMA board).  I'm about to get some 1p machines with the 
> ASUS SK8N mobo, so will have first hand experience soon.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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> > Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:07:25 -0500
> > From: William A. Mahaffey III <wam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Opteron Board preference ....
> >
> > Michael Hanulec wrote:
> >
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> >
> > > > > > file server, just a (fast) CPU & lots of RAM. I have narrowed down to
> > > > > > either ASUS SK8V or TYAN Tomcat K8S (both available @ newegg.com). Does
> > > > > >       
> > > > > >
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> > > i'd highly recommend looking at IWill's Opteron motherboards.  i've used
> > > both of them, both workstation and server, successfully with 16GB or ram.
> > > the Pro 9.0 SATA CD also adds the necessary driver support for the Silicon
> > > Image chipset found on-board.
> > >
> > > -mike
> > > --
> > > hanulec@xxxxxxxxxxx		cell: 858.518.2647 && 516.410.4478
> > > https://secure.hanulec.com	      EFnet irc && aol im: hanulec
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Sweet. iwill.com ? & do any of the online retailers carry them (newegg, 
> > spartan, etc.) ?
> >
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Sweet, I'm looking at them as I write this. Thanks.