Alan E. Davis wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A few years back I bought a Tyan SMP board (dual Athlon 1000's if I
recall). I was very pleased as it screamed through builds. Then
summer arrived, and with a computer room that gets warmish, I had lots
of cooling problems. That fall the power supply fried itself and the
mobo. To make a long story short, the Tyan was nice, but not right for
me. My present Athlon 64 X2 is doing very nicely now...
The Tyan Thunder I am running at work is also a power hungry dog, but
would that not be mainly because of the CPUs? Wouldn't newer Opterons
be more efficient? That's what I'm hoping for.
Yes, I like the Athlon 64 XP2. The point being that the Tyan was a
cadillac of a motherboard---and priced out of my range.
Alan
I have an old Tyan Tiger 100 with dual PII 350's that runs my firewall
and development webserver. Its a rock solid board and it's been doing
it's job well since I bought it waaay back. As you say the power draw is
more than I'd expect but that could just be due to using 2 very old and
inefficient processors.
I dream of the day when I can afford one of their dual opteron boards
with dual addon daughterboard for 4-way quad cores :)
Sorry if this is a little OT but I love that old board so much I had to
chime in with my $0.02.
Matt
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