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