I've seen an awful lot of posts on various SUSE mailing lists regarding problems with the VIA chipsets and large amounts of ram, but I don't have any personal experience with those boards. I had a contact at AMD (one of their sysadmins) recommend the ASUS SK8N for 1p boards and Rioworks HDAMA or HDAMB for 2p boards. I have the HDAMB board and it has been very stable, but I have not yet loaded up more than 4 gigs of ram yet (if you need more than 8gb ram you would need the HDAMA board). I'm about to get some 1p machines with the ASUS SK8N mobo, so will have first hand experience soon. Mike On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:07:25 -0500 From: William A. Mahaffey III
To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Opteron Board preference .... Michael Hanulec wrote:
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
i'd highly recommend looking at IWill's Opteron motherboards. i've used both of them, both workstation and server, successfully with 16GB or ram. the Pro 9.0 SATA CD also adds the necessary driver support for the Silicon Image chipset found on-board.
-mike -- hanulec@hanulec.com cell: 858.518.2647 && 516.410.4478 https://secure.hanulec.com EFnet irc && aol im: hanulec
Sweet. iwill.com ? & do any of the online retailers carry them (newegg, spartan, etc.) ?