On Thursday 12 May 2005 12:42, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
I am most interested in Athlon 64bit processors rather than Intel, tho.. I am open to suggestions .
Would like to find a MOBO that could or would have up to 4 spots for processors, but which wont bother anything if there is only one, or two.. to start ..
How about a Tyan Tiger K8W? (With 2x dual-core opteron 2XX = 4 processors) http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerk8w.html This is a workstation board, not a minimalist server one. FWIW, I have a Tyan Tiger MP, which is a dual Athlon workstation mainboard, and it's worked well for me for several years. I had some problems with data loss with an IDE card when the PCI bus was saturating (RAID0 can generate quite high transfer rates), which were possibly due to bugs in the AMD 760MP chipset (which was superceded by the 760MPX). Apart from that it's been fine.
For Athlon 64s, multi proc...( i.e. 2or more of Athlon 64 or Opteron , Which looks as if it is intended as a ¨celeron¨ lower price points etc..??? )
Didn't manage to parse that statement, but anyway: opteron is what you want, for multiprocessing and highest performance.
And just for fun, is anyone using Suse ( any level I guess but 9.3 certainly ) on any of the dual processors in one chip??? Would it be better to use two of those rather than 4 opterons, for instance. I need the processing power, but don´t see too many MOBOs that would be *desktop* ready.
Dual-core CPUs should work fine with SuSE. 4 CPU workstations are fairly high end beasts! But 2 CPU ones are much more common ...so get a 2 CPU mainboard and put 2 dual-core CPUs in it. -- Bill