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General => Common Topic Symposium => Topic started by: UnderGod on November 26, 2004 10:31 pm CST

Title: "Good" Dual-Opteron MBs
Post by: UnderGod on November 26, 2004 10:31 pm CST

If anyone can find me a dual-operton board that has pcix and sata, I will give you a cookie times the price of the board. I need two of them for a personal project.

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Post by: 12Stones on November 26, 2004 11:18 pm CST

http://www.pagecomputers.com/cgi-bin/page/B1215133.html (http://www.pagecomputers.com/cgi-bin/page/B1215133.html)


Main
 Thunder k8w (s2885)
 Supports up to two amd opteron processors
 Eight 184-pin 2.5v ddr dimm sockets for up to 16gb (400/333/266/200)
 Four 64-bit (3.3v) pci-x slots; one 8x agp / agp pro110 slot
 One gbe lan controller; integrated firewire controller
 Serial ata controller (option); integrated audio
 Four sata 1.0 ports
 Supports up to four sata drives
 Ssi eeb v3.0 footprint (12 x13 ; 304.8x330.2mm)



That's the cheapest one I could find..  the rest were between 450 and 550.  The rest of the options and requirements are in that link.

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Post by: Particle on November 27, 2004 07:12 am CST

It won't be cheap, but you need to get a particular kind of board.  I do not recall atm, but there are some boards which are slower than others due to the way memory is addressed--two seperate methods.  I'll get back to you today