-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 31 May 2004 07:12, rrpalma@synopsis.ws wrote:
Hello List,
We need to acquire a dual Opteron workstation. Our choices are:
- Build one ourselves , based on Tyan's Thunder K8W (S2885), with dual Opteron's 250, SATA drives, and nVidia 5950 card
This is almost exactly I am running so I can testify that it works with suse 9.0. Things to note about this system (named rayne): - Rayne has dual Opteron 246 (2.0 Ghz) - Be carefull what memory you use. I spent several fun filled weeks debugging my system only to learn it was a memory issue. This is somewhat exacerbated with the s2885 BIOS' lack of support for memory timing adjustment. Recommend using one of the exact memories specified by Tyan or something someone on this list using using. - Rayne still runs suse 9.0 - have not upgraded to 9.1 yet - Rayne uses kernel 2.4.21-215-smp If you have any other question about this system feel free to ask. I am very pleased with performance.
- Buy an IBM Intellistation A Pro with dual Opteron's 248, Ultra320SCSI drives, and nVidia Quadro FX 1100
I'm not familiar with these systems so I don't have a lot of input. Depending on what work you are doing you might want more RAM on you video card - I think the FX1100 has 128MB v. 256MB on the FX5950.
Thanks for your suggestions,
_____________________________ Ricardo R Palma SYNOPSIS SA
Tel. (+51 1) 275-7523, 275-4708 email: rrpalma@synopsis.ws
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Hope this helps, - Darrell - -- sused@mucus.com "Perfect! ....what am I doing?" -- Washu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAu2hKeo6c0kw6mZ0RAoigAKDFl1OivC9d+A/JluKVes76E9sL+wCfS26b G6oLE6oGkcGEHbkXDvo/7nE= =6Opl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----