New AGP Dual Opteron Board (Overkill.. I LIKE it!)

[Chrono_Wanderer]

congrats J1NG!

Note to self: Better follow your footstep (and maybe be a feng shui teller)

Edit: Interesting, an IT guy who's job is feng shui!

your next assignment is: write a program that will change the fung shui of any place place.

[MultimediaMan]

Yes...your Network Sucks the Life out of the productivity of the company...I will harmonize it...with Bandwidth Shaping and Load Balancing...and the Networking Closets will always be Tidy and Eye pleasing.

[Technoid]

ROFL

[J1NG]

Originally posted by MultimediaMan
Yes...your Network Sucks the Life out of the productivity of the company...I will harmonize it...with Bandwidth Shaping and Load Balancing...and the Networking Closets will always be Tidy and Eye pleasing.

ROFL

Aww, I gotta use that one when I finally land a job with an IT firm doing something!

J1NG

[UtwigMU]

I <3 Tyan.

[Belwarrior]

The only thing missing is USB 2.0 support.. hope AMD comes out with a revision with 2.0 support as there are many USB 2.0 devices out in the market.

[UtwigMU]

If you have money for Tyan K8W and a couple of Opterons, it's proabably not too hard to squeeze for USB2.0 card that costs 20$ or so.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

LOL@UtwigMU

[Belwarrior]

LOL
The question is if i have the money to get that board
in any case, If i am spending a lot of money for a board i would be expecting a USB 2.0 as every board currently coming out has it (it almost a de facto) and it wouldnt hurt AMD's sales to have USB 2.0.
which could mean i can get a better bargain on a lower end board using the same chipset.

[KvHagedorn]

I think AMD had other priorities.. just trying to get this totally new chipset up and running. It was aimed at servers anyhow, so I could see why USB 2.0 would not be tops on their list.

Unfortunately, according to the grapevine, socket 940 will be replaced by socket 939 sometime next year, even in servers. So this iteration of the board will soon be obsolete.

[Ribbit]

USB 2.0 is on some of Tyan's other dual Opteron boards.

[The PIT]

Yeh why would you need usb 2.0 on a server board.

Mouse Nope.
Keyboard Nope.
External hard disk for backup Nope.

Can't think of any need really.

[J1NG]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Unfortunately, according to the grapevine, socket 940 will be replaced by socket 939 sometime next year, even in servers. So this iteration of the board will soon be obsolete.

Uh, are you sure? From what I've been told, the 939 only allows it to work at reduced voltage. So the 939 chip should still work with the current 940 sockets. But the current 940 chip will not work in the new 939 sockets. At least that's my impression anyway.

But yeah, unless you're developing software that's gonna take advantage of SMP and the 64bit architecture, or you have money to spare , you might wanna wait out a little. As someone said earlier, this is very close to the 96-97 changeover of some technologies. You may end up with some unwanted pieces real soon.

And, I don't have anything on the USB2.0 side of things. So that was something I could have lived without. I only needed a Firewire connection at most.

J1NG

[KvHagedorn]

Well, it was second-hand info I heard from someone quoting a company roadmap. Didn't really make sense to me either. Deleting that pin was supposed to allow the FX chips to use non-registered memory somehow..

[Kurt]

New memory controller ? As an uneducated guess, it would make sense that a new memory controller would allow for the use of regular DDR -loosing a pin could be both a side-effect of that and a measure against using incompatible chips together...