27 Mar
2004
27 Mar
'04
14:31
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:27:51 -0600
"William A. Mahaffey III"
.... 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 would avoid VIA chipsets and lots of RAM right now. They seem to have problems with the IOMMU, which causes problems with >3GB and the on board devices. -Andi