Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
Nothing against Asus and New Egg - we've used New Egg for years and still like them a lot - but for our Opteron server we went to Monarch http://www.monarchcomputer.com/. New Egg was not keeping up with higher-end server components (hot swap rack mount cases in particular). Monarch has a great selection and prices and very, very knowlegable technicians. They were able to resolve a number of very sticky hardware support issues (SuSE AMD64 Linux was new as was Tyan's builtin SCSI raid support). To be fair, New Egg does not even try to be in the assembly box, just parts - Monarch does both.
- Richard
-----Original Message----- From: wam@mail.hiwaay.net [mailto:wam@mail.hiwaay.net]On Behalf Of William A. Mahaffey III Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 7:28 AM To: SuSE AMD 64 Mailing List Subject: [suse-amd64] Opteron Board preference ....
.... I am getting close to trying to build an Opteron based machine as a compute node on my LAN, set up to run w/o monitor, keybd, mouse, & not a 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 anyone have any strong (preferably firsthand :-)) opinions, yea or nay, about either of these boards ? Thanks in advance.
I was aware of Monarch, but haven't been to their site lately, just went there, great selection, I'll keep them in mind, thanks.