I do scientific software development in C/C++ and some Matlab.... Dual Opteron 246 Tyan Thunder K8W 4GB Kingston HyperX DDR400 Nvidia Quadro FX1100 - using Nvidia drivers/Twinview dual Samsung 213T's 250 GB Maxtor PATA system disk 2x250 GB Maxtor SATA (works with beta Silicon Image driver Suse 9.0 No problems at all. Single Opteron 246 Asus SK8N 4GB Corsair Nvidia GeForce 5900 Ultra - using Nvidia drivers Samsung 240T (1920x1200 on dvi which Windows won't do for this monitor) 250 GB Maxtor PATA system disk 2x250 GB Maxtor PATA (does not work - can't find support for onboard Promise controller) Suse 9.0 Had to d/l Nvidia drivers to get ethernet working. With exception of onboard raid everything works nicely. Dual Opteron 246 Celestica 1U rackmount. AMD motherboard I think. 8 GB DDR333 ATP onboard ATI rage pro xl 146GB scsi Cheetah system disk Qlogic 2342 FC hba 2 x 3.5TB FC raids Suse 9.1 Machines work but I had some problems trying to format 3.5TB filesystem using LVM. XFS would crash, ReiserFS does this wierd thing where when the machine boots, it never makes it, reboots automatically, then the raids go thru fsck which takes about 20 min. I have 3 of these machines. On another one I formatted the raid using jfs and it boots cleanly every time. I bought a Matrox card hoping to get a cheap dual dvi dualhead, but there is no amd64 support so I gave it away. Nvidia has since come out with the Quadro NVS280 which would fill this gap but I already had the FX1100. Guy down the hall has one and it works well from what I gather. All in all I've been very happy with Suse on AMD64. 2 guys I work with just bought 15 dual Opteron 1U's and 15 copies of 9.1 Pro. Joe Johan Nielsen wrote:
Would be nice to have around for all considering buying stuff.
Single / dual / X-cpu systems Mainboard RAM Chipset All the info you'd like to add
Plz let me/others know how you dealt with problems if you had any
(And yes ... I'll probably buy a AMD64/Opteron myself in the near future)
Johan