Which Motherboard for AMD???

[Maggi]

LOL

I just had a quick chat with one of our sys-ads and he told me a couple of years ago, we had a Dual Pentium 90 board from Tyan that never got close to stability, so there might be a few painful memories for some peeps ...

[KvHagedorn]

Ah.. were there actually dual P5 boards? LOL before my era of experience.. That was probably one of Tyan's first boards..

I have built 4 systems with Tyan boards, admittedly more recently than this.. The two I have are a GX and a BX board, and I built another two systems for friends, one with a BX and one with a Pentium Pro board. They have always performed well for me. The times I used tech support, I always got through immediately. One of those times I needed another P3 clip for my dual board (when I got it, it was open, so someone had probably robbed it). They sent that with no charge. The other time I used their tech support, a vendor had sent me an OEM board with the OEM bios installed, which I did not want. Sent the board in and they switched the bios.. no charge again. (Actually fibbed on that one and told 'em the bios was bad )

btw, never tried a Tyan board with a VIA chipset so my experience ends here..

[Indiana]

I guess Gurm is the one to answer the soundcard/SMP question. He has tried various soundcards on Win2k with SMP - but AFAIK had not much luck so far.

Still you SHOULD avoid the SBLive as

1. They're creating problems with occasional hiss/clicks in Win2k under heavy activity, even on non-VIA and even on Intel chipsets (look at this table).
2. The sound-quality is poor (yes, some might say they're happy with it, but there are also lots of people claiming their NVidia card has a good enough 2D....).
3. It/it's drivers cause dropped frames in vid-capturing systems
4. At least the older SBLive still don't output the AC3 in Win2k if you want to watch DVDs
5. Creatives drivers have ridiculously high latency. Most probably due to this the SBLive Platinum fails ATIs vid-caturing softwares systems test for the clock-stability of the soundcard in Win2k! And they're one of the biggest pieces of bloatware ever together with OfficeXP and Quicktime5/Win.
6. Last not least Creative has a new card out soon, the Audigy - this might be better - and you can imagine how the already bad driver-support for the Live series will be when the new card is out...

I have replaced my SBLive with a Terratec DMX for reasons 2,3,4 and 5 (didn't really have much problems with point 1, but others have) - this card works like a charm in Win2k WITH functional AC3, no hiccups, much less framedrops and it has a lean, stable driverset.
So don't buy a SBLive if you want good sound-quality, are into vid-caturing or want to use Win2k. It's VERY annoying to replace a crappy $200 card with a much better performing $60 one (like I did)...

[LAMFDTK]

I don't like green, The PR folk at Tyan are not to swift. They are funny dudes. They might be great products but I have had poor results in the past with their products. I have had too many good choices to try one again.

I also don't like jazz, but I know its good.

I'd wait for a dual AMD board, but if I wanted a dual sytem, I would use P-933's and get the DVD266-R IWILL board. http://www.iwillusa.com/products/spec.asp?ModelName=DVD266-R&SupportID=This board has a pretty fine onboard sound chip. And uses the VIA Apollo Pro266 Chipset.

But I stand on my Asus rec. http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/socketa/a7m266/index.html This board has the AMD-761 chip.

I have also lost a bad IBM GXP that I am waiting for a replacement. Damm they take their time. I lost it in a dual system, an ECS D6Vaa It has the Via 694X and the 686B set. I think the drive died on its own.

As far as SB-live and duals... I bought the Hercules Game Theater and it performed fine. I have since move it to a game system and use the onboard sound for the dual. Its a work unit so I am not in need of surround or HQ sound.

http://www.us.buy.com/retail/clearance/product.asp?sku=70003481&loc=6936

[ALBPM]

Sigh!?!?!?!?!!

(don't do this unless you are prepared to spend lots of time and money and run the possibility of damaging something.. it's for hobbyists only)

We've been Reduced to Hobbyists

Paul

[DentyCracker]

I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC I wanna OC . Did I mention that I wanna OC. To quote Rags "Awww, Kv's all growed up, buying Tyan mobos and all"

ROTFLMAO.
That being saind, I bought a Tyan Tiger 100 for a friend 2 years ago to use with his dual P-!!! 450s and it's still going strong with nary a hiccough. I just ordered him to 1GB of RAM (waiting on it to come)

[djroberts]

In that kase I don't nevr want to be all growed up.

I want to overklock everythang.

dj

[ALBPM]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

Does that include your banjo dj?????

Hey, I think I hear someone playing Dueling Banjos in the background. Why don't you go check it out dj.

Paul

[djroberts]

Whats that sposed to mean ALBPM?

Are you makin fun of me?? I don't even have one of them Tyan muther boards.

I'm over klockin my pendium just fine with my TX chipset muther board just fine thankyou. And I don't even need one of them Peltzers to do it with.

dj

[ALBPM]

Ah, no dj I'm not making fun of you

I guess your a Hobbyist just like the rest of us Overclocking muthers....LOL

Paul

[djroberts]

I ain't no hobbyist I'm straite.

You kut that out albpm or I'll tell that Ant dude that your pickin on me.

dj

[ALBPM]

Sorry dj

I guess it's UT time..

Paul

[GinoCyber]

Like I said before. Do the world a favour and don't reproduce.

Ciao

[Rags]

Why? Paul's alright

[djroberts]

Ya ALBPM what gino said! Do the world a favor and go reformat your self or sumthin.

dj